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Author Topic:   future evolution of humanity
Dan Carroll
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Message 3 of 34 (43493)
06-20-2003 12:06 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by contracycle
06-20-2003 10:58 AM


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In the reasonably short term (on the kind of scale we are discussing) IMO the shift will be out into space. It's clear the earth aint big enough for us, and if we stay we'll it and ourselves. Life expands to fill all available niches.
One of my favorite writers once delivered this wonderful line about space exploration:
"Imagine the devonian fish crawling onto land in little bubble helmets filled with water."
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Dan Carroll
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Message 6 of 34 (43747)
06-23-2003 10:30 AM
Reply to: Message 4 by Autocatalysis
06-21-2003 11:24 PM


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That’s a really nice quote, who wrote it?
Comic writer named Grant Morrison. It was in a comic he wrote called Doom Patrol.
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Message 13 of 34 (44421)
06-27-2003 3:39 AM
Reply to: Message 10 by Number_ 19
06-26-2003 5:53 AM


Re: God's children?
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I don't think we should be worrying about the long term future of human evolution and need to be more worried about robotic evolution.It is my personal opinion that machines would be the end result of any technological civilization's evolution.They are doing in months what have taken us millions of years.
Except that machines aren't doing it on their own. That's a key difference. We haven't unveiled some sort of Frankenstein's Monster that's going to become too dangerous for humans to stop.
Assuming the three laws aren't used, ( ) you can always install an off-switch.
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