Dear God,
I write this fresh off YNH's Homo Sapiens: A brief history of humankind.
YNH makes some very illuminating forecasts for our kind, including the rise of machines that will bring about our extermination. Look Google up for images on evolution of Man. You will find that Man eventually turns into machines. I was tempted to add my bit here. One, I don't quite agree (may be semantic) with that image. It just doesn't fit in by the strict definitions of evolution.
And two, in the little time that our kind has on this planet, I see a fork coming up. With disaster capitalism and its evil tentacles getting a grip of the world, the gap between the haves and the have-nots is ever widening and dare I say, will soon bring about two sub-species - Homo elitus and Homo inutilia. In fact, YNH notes the latter in his work as the useless class.
Again, selection will play a vital role here. Only this time, artificial selection. The 1% of the 1% will grow from strength to strength and amass so much wealth and power through algorithms, there will eventually be no use for the rest of the Homo Sapiens, as we know it today. This, until of course, the 1% of the 1% will colonise another planet and leave machines to rule the remnants of Sapiens!
It may not be as grim as I feel, but if it did happen, selection will bring about newer traits and characteristics so required for the survival of the 'major minority'. We'd probably be foraging for food again, after all. Who can tell!
Isn't this so reminiscent of how we exterminated an entire subspecies of Neanderthals. This time, our species will exterminate ourselves.
History will repeat itself, only the parties will have changed!
I write this fresh off YNH's Homo Sapiens: A brief history of humankind.
YNH makes some very illuminating forecasts for our kind, including the rise of machines that will bring about our extermination. Look Google up for images on evolution of Man. You will find that Man eventually turns into machines. I was tempted to add my bit here. One, I don't quite agree (may be semantic) with that image. It just doesn't fit in by the strict definitions of evolution.
And two, in the little time that our kind has on this planet, I see a fork coming up. With disaster capitalism and its evil tentacles getting a grip of the world, the gap between the haves and the have-nots is ever widening and dare I say, will soon bring about two sub-species - Homo elitus and Homo inutilia. In fact, YNH notes the latter in his work as the useless class.
Again, selection will play a vital role here. Only this time, artificial selection. The 1% of the 1% will grow from strength to strength and amass so much wealth and power through algorithms, there will eventually be no use for the rest of the Homo Sapiens, as we know it today. This, until of course, the 1% of the 1% will colonise another planet and leave machines to rule the remnants of Sapiens!
It may not be as grim as I feel, but if it did happen, selection will bring about newer traits and characteristics so required for the survival of the 'major minority'. We'd probably be foraging for food again, after all. Who can tell!
Isn't this so reminiscent of how we exterminated an entire subspecies of Neanderthals. This time, our species will exterminate ourselves.
History will repeat itself, only the parties will have changed!
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