Thursday, November 11, 2010
Where are we heading ?
Another thing to consider is that humans are still evolving. While evolutionary physical changes are almost imperceptible generation to generation, cultural behavior changes markedly in the same period. Behavior changes coupled with advances in technology may tend to accelerate the pace of human evolution without much outward change in basic appearance. With the constant push for smaller, cheaper, faster electronic devices, and the changes in medical technology, and the sociological drive to be in constant communication via the Internet and cellphone, it is quite conceivable that within a few hundred years, people will be hardwired into the Web with implanted always-on communication devices that also serve as personal digital assistants, data storage, and sense augmentation. Genetic engineering may also have an impact on the population, to make people live longer, healthier lives. Homo sapiens may be only 100,000 years old, but we have only very recently developed technology capable of beginning to understand the physical universe we find ourselves inhabiting. Our civilization has had powered flight for only four generations, nuclear power for only two generations, and only in the current generation have we developed powerful computing and communication capabilities.
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