I like the futurist bent this thread is taking, having not been in here for a week or so.
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Originally Posted by freebeard
sendler — 
Reproduction and demographics operate too slowly. What is needed is some refinement of intellect to lofty heights, but across the board. SF author David Brin would call it 'uplifting', but he focuses on chimpanzees and dolphins. How this might happen is concerning. Persusasion is Okay but mass hypnosis mind control is not. Brain implants? |
Unfortunately, Brin evoked aliens to uplift us.
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One of the big concerns in charting the future of humanity is that while we have the massive energy and manpower resources needed to develop future technologies, we're splurging a lot of it on inconsequentials.
Not that enforcing an authoritarian grip on energy and manpower would get us there faster... a happy population is a productive one, but a lot of our excess energy use is simply used for stuff we don't need.
Full virtuality can't come soon enough.