The <a href="http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/th/">Transhumanity</a> blog has an interesting essay by the Los Alamos scientist Alex Alaniz, also author of the SF novel <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1419609440/qid=1123599258/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-4797061-6659156?v=glance&s=books">
Beyond Future Shock</a>. <br>
<a href="http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/th/more/844/">Humanity's entry into the post-Darwinian era</a> - An essay concerning law, social identity, inequality, conflict, crime,
warfare and economic reality at the cusp of <span style="background-color: rgb(51, 204, 255);">humanity's entry into
post-corporeal, post-Darwinian evolution</span> - This essay will address some of the legal, social, and economic issues
of a post-Darwinian future, pose many questions, and try to make the
case that now is the time for active discussion regarding the
development of legal and economic means to greatly reduce—if not
altogether prevent—the dangers and pitfalls of the real future shock
about to befall all of us, namely, our entry into a post-Darwinian
evolutionary era. It will also touch on the possible natures and
physical restrictions constraining a post-Darwinian evolution, and
discuss our likely motivations for entry into a post-corporeal era,
along with the possible attendant social and economic consequences,
such as the possibility of the richest rich, as post corporeal beings,
so rapidly consuming the world's resources, the poorest poor are
starved out of existence. It will conclude with a call for simulations
of the world in the not-too-distant future along the lines of the
popular internet game SimCity.