Stupidity is always a great form of entertainment....atleast in my opinion. Oh, and I'm not referring to being or pretending to be stupid to entertain others. I'm simply referring to people who are just.....dumb. It's hilarious. And I think, it's a problem. A limitation to the progress of human beings as a species. Imagine if every single person on the planet, was super smart, and served to achieve a unified goal to actually become a civilization so great, Nikolai Kardashev would go 'oh fuck'.
You mean mean person!
I think perhaps, if people in general were that useless to actually NOT contribute towards human progress, the whole sci-fi picture I'm seeing in my head won't come true for a very long time. However, I'm not saying that what I'm about to suggest is technologically achievable at the moment, but I'm just going to go ahead and say that if or when we would be able to accomplish such feats, we should go ahead and do it, and say 'fuck you ethics'.
Now let's say at such an advanced stage of human civilization, we let the baby grow.....normally. High-school drop out, and 'would you like fries with that?' YOU HAD POTENTIAL! However, it does come down to freedom of choosing doesn't it? Well, how about we look at it this way. There can be many kinds of humans in the future. Half-synthetic ones, genetically superior humans, humans who are immune to all diseases and of course, Christians. How could I forget, right? (U MAD?) If humans can be created for specific purposes, I don't really think freedom to choose would become much of a problem. Why? Well, because you will be one of the smartest beings on the planet, and you were born to become great. Or would you rather be wondering why the customer didn't want onions with his burger?
Now onto human enhancement. I'm thinking this would be met with criticism from conservatives and the religious front altogether, in the future that is. 'But why would you alter your brain with synthetics or nano-technology or something because that's not how you were made!' The answer is simple. Assume your arms were augmented, and now, you could do work faster and easier than ever before. Assume you had the chance to become immune to all diseases and be constantly updated to counter new ones. Assume you could run faster, think better, and use all five of your senses a 100 times better than before. Why would emergency workers need rescue dogs when they themselves could hear or smell a human under all that rubble? If genetic engineering has limitations, augmenting humans at later stages of life would make you even better. Human progress would be faster than ever before. Sure, you may be half a 'terminator', but then again, always remember that you are better.
In the end, yes, this is all not possible at the moment. However, when the time comes, I think humans should disregard ethics fully or to some extent, because I believe this is the next stage of evolution. Maybe this all would depend on how wealthy you are (repo men) or how much of a 'true' human you want to remain, but when it comes down to improving yourselves beyond your wildest imagination, I really don't think people should back down. Go for it. Create humans. Alter yourselves, because we have galaxies to travel to!
So, let's start of with babies. I saw this movie once, called The Island with Ewan Mcgregor and Scarlett Johansson, where humans were cloned and given identities. Well of course until they break out and well you know.......shit happens since it's a movie. I'm not going to suggest cloning, since I don't want copies of the same people all over the place, no matter how smart they are. So, here's my suggestion. Let's grow babies in human incubators until they reach a certain stage, alter them genetically to suit certain jobs, and feed their brains information specifically designed to succeed at those certain jobs at a very young stage. Instant 'guywhosgonnabuildaspaceship'. Or something similar.
Ah, Scarlett, why are you so hot?
Now let's say at such an advanced stage of human civilization, we let the baby grow.....normally. High-school drop out, and 'would you like fries with that?' YOU HAD POTENTIAL! However, it does come down to freedom of choosing doesn't it? Well, how about we look at it this way. There can be many kinds of humans in the future. Half-synthetic ones, genetically superior humans, humans who are immune to all diseases and of course, Christians. How could I forget, right? (U MAD?) If humans can be created for specific purposes, I don't really think freedom to choose would become much of a problem. Why? Well, because you will be one of the smartest beings on the planet, and you were born to become great. Or would you rather be wondering why the customer didn't want onions with his burger?
Hey did you hear? Jimmy, the guy who was grown in an incubator
created pills to cure cancer. Oh and yes, a medium coke please.
created pills to cure cancer. Oh and yes, a medium coke please.
Now onto human enhancement. I'm thinking this would be met with criticism from conservatives and the religious front altogether, in the future that is. 'But why would you alter your brain with synthetics or nano-technology or something because that's not how you were made!' The answer is simple. Assume your arms were augmented, and now, you could do work faster and easier than ever before. Assume you had the chance to become immune to all diseases and be constantly updated to counter new ones. Assume you could run faster, think better, and use all five of your senses a 100 times better than before. Why would emergency workers need rescue dogs when they themselves could hear or smell a human under all that rubble? If genetic engineering has limitations, augmenting humans at later stages of life would make you even better. Human progress would be faster than ever before. Sure, you may be half a 'terminator', but then again, always remember that you are better.
So doctor, this enhancement has wifi capabilities right?
In the end, yes, this is all not possible at the moment. However, when the time comes, I think humans should disregard ethics fully or to some extent, because I believe this is the next stage of evolution. Maybe this all would depend on how wealthy you are (repo men) or how much of a 'true' human you want to remain, but when it comes down to improving yourselves beyond your wildest imagination, I really don't think people should back down. Go for it. Create humans. Alter yourselves, because we have galaxies to travel to!
