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EXCERPT: As with most people, I really don't enjoy thinking about death. Not my death, not your death, and certainly not the death of humanity—just no death for me, please! When it came to this video however, there was really no avoiding it. I'm not going to be alive in 1,000 years and neither are you! That's that! We'll just have to deal. It's pretty unfortunate though because things are looking mighty fine for the human race if we don't blow ourselves up first (which we most likely will). According to TechInsider there are going to be a few, notable, and pretty ground-breaking evolutionary changes...

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(May 9, 2017 10:58 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ]http://www.fhm.com/posts/what-humans-wil...deo-131956

EXCERPT: As with most people, I really don't enjoy thinking about death. Not my death, not your death, and certainly not the death of humanity—just no death for me, please! When it came to this video however, there was really no avoiding it. I'm not going to be alive in 1,000 years and neither are you! That's that! We'll just have to deal. It's pretty unfortunate though because things are looking mighty fine for the human race if we don't blow ourselves up first (which we most likely will). According to TechInsider there are going to be a few, notable, and pretty ground-breaking evolutionary changes...  

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so like this ?

(May 14, 2017 12:39 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]so like this ?

I'm surprised at how many years RR lingered around. The upper half of it was even used in a 70s episode of Columbo that I saw recently. Apparently also had appearances on television as late as 1979 and film-wise a cameo in 1984.

One might see the computer itself as well as the cellphone as a prosthetic of the human body. Our sense of presence, speech, movement, sensory detection, and social interaction is all extended into the wireless ethernet where we live a sort of virtual existence independent of our physical bodies. Likewise the mind is connected to a matrix of immediately accessible information, pictures, and videos beyond just what is available inside the brain. We are already half flesh and half electromagnetic waveform, speeding out over the globle at lightspeed to experience things our bodies would never have access to before.

Quote:One might see the computer itself as well as the cellphone as a prosthetic of the human body.

Valid point. An external hard drive or second brain. I wonder if it helps ease the load on the biological brain or if it's actually healthier. We don't need to store half the crap in the noggin previous generations did. What's next, we evolve smaller brains/heads? Since childbirth would get easier then I just don't want to imagine a woman's hips looking like a guy's in the future.