Cybernetics

Todays, white fiddling around with my EnV3 cellphone, I began to think about how in the not so distant future, the computing power of the average desktop will be crammed into somthing the size of a cell phone. Then, while watching a video series by DonExodus regarding evolution, I began to think about our contemporary evolutionary patterns.

Most of our current evolutions have had to do with societal evolutions, psychological evolutions, and technological evolutions. As DonExodus said, who I believe quoted someone before him, it is an organisms ability to adapt to change that causes it to pass its genetics on to the next generation; to breed. Since much of our contemporary adaptation comes from technology (air conditioning, pesticides, etc) it seems that an incorporation of our technological advancedments with our own evolutionary genetics would be the most beneficial for our immedeate evolution and/or survival in our environment. I am speaking of course of cybernetics. It seems likely that at a point we will adapt ourselves with the technology we create to form a symbiosis, and that eventually we will become so reliant and intertwined with technology that we will become one with it.

Bronze Age, industrial age, information age (our current era), robotics age, cybernetics age, quantum age, trancendance age. These would all seem to be logical projections of our species evolution, assuming something doesnt wipe us all out; ourselves or some natural phenomena. I just hope that we live long enough to see the evolution into an era where our technology combined with our mental processing powers can allow us to manipulate the subatomic world by the power of our physiological processes alone.