New Human Species?
Will we soon be able to engineer a new human species? Juan Enriquez, a writer, investor, and managing director of Excel Venture Management, thinks so. He wrote the book “As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth, as well as the more recent, “Homo Evolutis: A Short Tour of Our New Species.” He had this to say in an interview on the website TechnologyReview.com;
“The new human species is one that begins to engineer the evolution of viruses, plants, animals, and itself. As we do that, Darwin’s rules get significantly bent, and sometimes even broken. By taking direct and deliberate control over our evolution, we are living in a world where we are modifying stuff according to our desires.
If you turned off the electricity in the United States, you would see millions of people die quickly, because they wouldn’t have asthma medications, respirators, insulin, a whole host of things we invented to prevent people from dying. Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we’re engineering. That’s a big deal. Today’s plastic surgery is going to seem tame compared to what’s coming.”
Enriquez points out that although at this pint we are almost identical to Neanderthals genetically, that can change quickly. DNA sequencing technology and other science is advancing at a faster and faster pace. He warns that because science is close to sequencing 10,000 human genomes, we may soon have to deal with the biological fact of variation among groups of people, and the resulting ethical considerations (do we want to know which groups are superior or inferior in this or that aspect, and what do we do with that information?).
In regards to the speed at which economic changes can happen, Enriquez says;
“In the industrial revolution, it took a lifetime to build enough industry to double the wealth of a country. In the knowledge revolution, you can build billion-dollar companies with 20 people very quickly. The implication is that you can double the wealth of a country very quickly. In Korea in 1975, people had one-fifth of the income of Mexicans, and today they have five times more. Even the poorest places can generate wealth quickly.”
It is fascinating to think that if we have a rational framework for change, we can make huge advances in health and economics in the span of a generation or two. A new human species? That may be a ways off. But a radically new world to live in may not be that far away, for better or worse.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 pm
Please look up:
Transhuman
The Singularity
And then look up:
Morgellon’s Disease
Chemtrails
The truth is, on one hand they’re pushing this idea that we’ll be more than human when we merge with machines. At the extreme some think we’ll all become psychic when we reach “the Singularity” which is sort of like being assimilated into the Borg.
On the other hand, tens of thousands of people are getting sick and dying from Morgellon’s, a disease caused by nanomachines that have been sprayed on us, and that are also in food, clothes detergent, and vaccines. Mitsubishi and P&G have both invented nano-RFID tags. Mainstream medicine refuses to acknowledge the existence of Morgellon’s Disease. But they are a bunch of duffers.
November 23rd, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Oh, also apparently people are now showing up with more than two strands of DNA. Not sure what that’s all about.
Once the bell is rung, it can’t be unrung. The technology is here and has been here for a while now. It’s now in the implementation stages. The danger in all of this is corruption and corporate greed, and the lust for power. It’s too easy to see that we’ll end up in a world like this:
People will be bred for certain roles in life sort of like bees, and there will be no freedom. Nano-RFID’s will broadcast information about you 24/7 to some CENTRAL Central Intelligence. Human genes will become the intellectual property of Monsanto or whoever else “improves” them. People won’t be allowed to breed unless their genetic pedigrees pass muster, and women will be implanted with genetically modified eggs instead of being allowed to breed “wild”. This will ruin what is left of marriage and family. They’ll also be able to assassinate you or just mind-control you simply by telling your resident nanomachines to do it with a satellite broadcast. There are devices now that can “sniff” and detect chemicals like volatiles such as come from plants or oil from machinery from an airplane and also underwater. They might be able to find you in a similar manner by your genetic signature. You won’t ever be able to hide or escape from your slavery.
I know I’m mixing nano in with genetics, but I think nanomachines could also interfere or mix with genetics – it’s all kind of the same thing in the end.
And it’s because the bastards get evil ideas, they’re ruthless, they’re psychopaths, they rise to the top of any power structure, and they want to kill us and create their dystopian eugenicist Nazi future on our ashes.