"be raised from before birth to behave a certain way" is how everybody is raised. But, that's not really your or my point for this post, but, the...
I know I'm a johnny-come-lately, so this may be old hat around here; but have you read Greg Egan's Diaspora? If not, I recommend you put it at #1...
Stellar colonization will prove to be a MUCH larger consideration than we guess, IMHO. I think it will take a lot longer to actually implement, and...
Well, the way I think it'll fall into place is that we'll concurrently have the human workforce phased out in favor of robots, and life extension...
Well, let's be honest here. This will happen anyway as robots become cheaper and smarter. Why continue to pay XXXXXX amount of money to a person,...
True enough, but is it really "state" control, i.e. the "people", or is it "state" control as in the leader or government forces in control. If...
I read in a book called "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud that his personal definition of "art" is pretty much anything you do that isn't...
Well, when I say "conflict", I mean armed conflict. There's no reason to say that the only was to progress socially and technologically is to find...
Well, Gifted; "senesence" (I can never quite remember if I'm spelling it correctly) is functionally defined as the natural processes of cellular...
Now, now...surely the best survival mechanism isn't kicking back with a brewski and watching to see if everything goes straight to hell, is it?...
Right...right...right. That's all good, and well. Did you have a question?
Good points, kmguru. A true democracy would understand that no one has the right to infringe on other's rights. Therefore, there wouldn't be...
I don't think a Utopia is possible until certain prerequisites are met in order to pave the way. Everyone, everywhere will have to be a...
I would mutate koala bears into Ewoks. And an iguana into Yoda. Then I would make real-life MicroNauts. The aliens, at least. How cool would it...
This is hog-wash. Every cell in the human body is alive. An egg's presense inside or out of the uterus isn't what makes it "alive" or "natural"....
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