With the continued development of CRISPR, polygenic risk screening, artificial wombs, robo nannies, gene banking, I expect that humans will become ever more beautiful, stronger, smarter, longer lived, etc.
Concomitantly, artificial intelligence / robots will grow in intelligence, durability, robustness, decentralization. Brain imaging and neuroscience will advance to the point that we can "run" a human level intellect on advanced robots.
IMO, in the long run, man and machine will merge into beings that will seem as gods to us now.
It won't be utopia, as the goddess of entropy always takes her tribute. Macro-parasites, such as government, will continue to evolve. New horrors, like mind surveillance, accelerated time prisons, synthetic brain worms, and most Black Mirror episodes will likely come true in some form.
But I don't think we should lose hope. Humanity is in a far better place now than we've been at any time in our history. Historically, the optimists have a better track record of prediction--Peak Oil didn't happen, billions of people didn't starve to death, and humans have readily adapted to changing climate conditions.
Nature may be a blind watchmaker, but humans are not. And we can now direct our own evolution.
Concomitantly, artificial intelligence / robots will grow in intelligence, durability, robustness, decentralization. Brain imaging and neuroscience will advance to the point that we can "run" a human level intellect on advanced robots.
IMO, in the long run, man and machine will merge into beings that will seem as gods to us now.
It won't be utopia, as the goddess of entropy always takes her tribute. Macro-parasites, such as government, will continue to evolve. New horrors, like mind surveillance, accelerated time prisons, synthetic brain worms, and most Black Mirror episodes will likely come true in some form.
But I don't think we should lose hope. Humanity is in a far better place now than we've been at any time in our history. Historically, the optimists have a better track record of prediction--Peak Oil didn't happen, billions of people didn't starve to death, and humans have readily adapted to changing climate conditions.
Nature may be a blind watchmaker, but humans are not. And we can now direct our own evolution.