[quote=“Haystack, post:13, topic:94806”]My expectation is that technology will soon reach a point where we’re able to guide our own evolution through cybernetics, genetic engineering, etc. That dynamic will feed back on itself as the first generation of augmented humans influence the direction of future augmentation, so that it becomes really important who makes the first steps and why.
[/quote]I reckon that first generation of augmented humans is going to need a lot of tribalism and short-term thinking if it’s not going to get swiftly wiped out by the rest of the non-augmented ones. And they’ll need plenty of wishful thinking just to get started.
