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SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH "believed humans have stopped evolving physically and genetically because of birth control and abortion, but that cultural evolution is proceeding "with extraordinary swiftness" “We stopped natural selection as soon as we started being able to rear 90-95% of our babies that are born. We are the only species to have put a halt to natural selection, of its own free will, as it were. Our evolution is now cultural."" "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse https://lnkd.in/dZs9bg9 View in LinkedIn

THE FIRST QUESTIONS. “If we're able to download our brains, will brainless bodies be genetically grown for us? Or will we inhabit a more computer-like environment; a robot, say, or an android?" https://lnkd.in/ds87xWD View in LinkedIn

CHATBOX. “Xiaoice is 16 years old and lives in Beijing, China. She is sympathetic and joking, although her sense of humor is a bit particular. Unlike many people, this young lady is never going to make you wait hours before answering your messages in a chat. More than anything because he lives for and to answer his interlocutors. And he already has billions of friends, especially in the Eastern power.” https://lnkd.in/dmRRQza View in LinkedIn

SYNAPSE COMPUTING. "A Defense Department agency has funded a program, Synapse, that is trying to develop a computer that resembles a brain in form and function." http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/the-philosophy-of-her/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1 View in LinkedIn

NONBIOLOGICAL THINKING. "By the close of next century...Nonbiological thinking will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than that of its biological progenitors, although it will be still of human origin." http://www.rense.com/ufo6/live.htm View in LinkedIn

NEW EVOLUTION RATE. "By the close of next century...There will be few humans without some form of artificial intelligence, which is growing at a double exponential rate, whereas biological intelligence is basically at a standstill." http://www.rense.com/ufo6/live.htm View in LinkedIn

BUCKET OF BOLTS. "By the close of the next century, nonbiological intelligence will be ubiquitous." http://www.rense.com/ufo6/live.htm View in LinkedIn