Mr Saffo, from San Francisco, says in the future people will be able to grow their own replacement organs, take specially tailored drugs, and use genetic research tools to alert them from any possible hereditary health dangers.
He adds that tomorrow's world will be a fusion of biology and technology, where robots do the chores, cars drive themselves and artificial limbs are better than real ones.
But Mr Saffo says these improvements would only be affordable to the super-rich. And because of this, he says, advancements may lead to a divide between the classes and eventually could lead to the super-rich evolving into a different species entirely, leaving his not-so-rich counterpart behind.
"In the 1980s it was the personal computer - came out of the garage, changed the world. In the 1990s it was the web. The next big device to wander into our lives is robots,” he told the Sunday Times.
"We may find we are absolutely dependent upon these electronic insects and that we don't even know we are dependent upon them until something breaks.
"I sometimes wonder if the very rich can live, on average, 20 years longer than the poor. That's 20 more years of earning and saving. Think about wealth and power and the advantages that you pass on to your children."
if the upper class is able to give its children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren more and more and more genetic advantages, they will move the class so far away from the people who are naturally born that the people in the natural class will have no way of jumping into this upper class, and that would be a permanent divide in society.
Eventually, if this went on long enough, it could reach the point where people in the upper genetic class could no longer breed with people who were not genetically engineered, which would lead to a division of our species into two or more separate species.
Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 5:24 pm Post subject:
The rich are de-evolving into reptiles. Now I've heard it all.
But seriously, people can be mightily affected by the psychology of greed. satanists, theosophists and similar occultists scoop up these people by massaging their ego and convincing them that they are a different species 'gods'.
God only knows just what going round all day believing you are a god does to a person, it must almost make you into a different species. It might make you even blame and want to depopulate all those little 'non gods' who you have convinced yourself are to blame for the ills of the world in a mechanised society with no need for labour.
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 6060 Location: East London
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:
@ Tony: The rich are de-evolving into reptiles. Now I've heard it all.
Well, I for one wouldn't be surprised if they grew horns and a forked tail (to match their tongues), but maybe not in this world!! _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 6060 Location: East London
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2015 11:40 am Post subject:
A different 'species' indeed!
'And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven...'
Matt. XIX : 24 _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7.
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