If peace broke out tomorrow...

[Weltall]

The one with Brain Scratch? Didn't work out too well, if I remember. And it was controlled by a comatose teenager. :D

Anyway, I think a lot of what I read about the Transhumanists seem like they want to live in a Star Trek novel. They are way too idealist. They believe, to some form, that they can branch out entirely seperate and become a race of supermen, essentially. One referred to them becoming as "the Greek Gods".

It all sounds very lovely, but I think it's going to stay on the pages of sci-fi novels. I believe their goals of bettering people through technology is wonderful, however, that is inevitable. One needs only to compare us in 2004 to people of 1904. Lifespans have nearly doubled. We've been to the moon and touched the stars. We can do things that people a hundred years ago could never begin to imagine. And yet, we did it all without a profound cultural change. The real future will likely differ a bit from their vision of a utopia, but at least from the technological side of things, we're on our way there. It may not happen as fast as they'd like, but it's inevitable that we will get there, and it probably won't take very long.