[extropy-chat] We are the final frontier

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The Guardian - Copernicus, Darwin, Crick and Watson changed the way
people see themselves. So what's next? What will be the fourth
revolution? And will it, like those before, force us to question once
more what it means to be human? To find out, Life put the question to
some of the world's top scientists.
The leading candidates for the next revolution are enthralling,
depressing and mind-boggling. Seth Shostak, of the alien-hunting Seti
organisation in California, believes that we will become the first
species to invent our successor, intentionally demoting ourselves to
intellectual second fiddle. Others say we will finally understand the
workings of the mind, and with it grasp fully the nature of self.
Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist at the City University of New
York, believes that we will discover parallel universes, perhaps
floating just inches away from our own. Elvis Presley might even be
alive and well in one of them, he says. The Oxford University
neuroscientist Susan Greenfield sees a bleak future. We will see a
melding of man and machine, she says, leading to the demise of the
individual.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1409019,00.html