What is the most likely next stage of human evolution?
Transhumanity. In the next fifty years alone the convergence of pharmocology, AI, nanotechnology and biotechnology will give us power over our own evolution.Lifespans will extend well beyond a century, our senses will perceive things well beyond their natural ability and we will remember more of our lives with greater fidelity.We will master fatigue, arousal and attention, give ourselves more intelligence, gain greater control over our emotions and be less susceptible to depression, compulsion and mental illness. Our bodies and brains will be surrounded by and merged with computer power, which itself will become as powerful as our brains, or more so.We will use technology to redesign ourselves and there is the surprising fact that these enhancement technologies could be cheap.Therapies to suppress or reverse ageing could be as inexpensive to distribute as condoms and vaccines. Of course, these future technologies also carry grave risks such as the possibility of machine intelligence ex
