What does humanity expect?

    According to the World Health Organization, two-thirds of children born on the planet have one or another developmental disability, there are practically no absolutely healthy newborns. Many thanks for this, no matter how blasphemous it sounds, I must say medicine, whose technology gives a "ticket to life" for sick children who would die under natural conditions. These children grow up, give even more “sick” posterity, which, thanks to medicine, also receives a further trip. This "disconnection" of natural selection causes the accumulation of the genetic burden of disease in the genotype of mankind, like a growing snowball. If this goes further, then after 300-500 years, each born child will undergo a series of operations, only after which his body will be able to function normally.



    The global deterioration in human health is compounded by environmental degradation, changes in nutrition (the use of various food additives, a change in diet), an increase in information pollution, and a change in lifestyle (inactivity). If genetic engineering does not reach that level, when the correction of the DNA of a fertilized egg becomes possible, humanity will experience a collapse during which the species Homo sapiens may disappear from the face of the Earth.
    Having solved this problem, humanity will throw all its forces into the fight against death.
    If you look at the history of the development of mankind, it can be noted that man made great efforts to “curb” nature. In nature, he did not like much - unfavorable factors, with which, in the end, he successfully fights with the help of building houses in various climatic zones, technical devices (air conditioners) and a number of other devices. The nature’s unpredictability does not suit man either, to combat which he has developed various ingenious devices (dams for flood control, forecasts for anticipating adverse environmental changes, etc.), as well as humanity is not satisfied with the limited nature of its species of opportunities. Farsightedness and visual acuity are not enough - a “techno-superstructure” has appeared for the human organs of vision in the form of binoculars, microscopes, etc. Not enough physical strength - jacks and cranes appeared. There is not enough speed of movement - in response to this, cars, planes were created. The accuracy of mathematical calculations is not enough - computers appeared. Mankind in every possible way seeks to bring its capabilities closer to 100%, ridding itself of the unpredictability of the world around it. Physical death is the most important "bastion" of nature, which humanity has already begun to storm. The question is, how will Homo sapiens deal with this bastion? Medical technology and genetic engineering again? Gross and dubious attempts are already being made to obtain immortality using cryotechnology. For a tidy sum, you can freeze your mortal body or head ("economy option") until better times. A certain parallel can be drawn with the ancient Egyptians,
    The recent successes of the ever-accelerating development of computer technology (in the field of computer technology, the doubling of all available knowledge occurs every 7 years, and this process of accumulating knowledge is accelerated) suggests that immortality will be received by a person at the “cybernetic level” earlier. All knowledge accumulated by a person, his feelings, emotions can theoretically be transferred (translated) to the language of binary code and placed on a specific medium. Further, this information can be programmatically, technically interpreted and placed in a new, already technical, “shell” or “live” in a new generation global network.
    Now let’s fantasize a bit. The nn or nnnth century has come. A “cherished” device has appeared that allows translating all the knowledge, skills and feelings of a person into machine code. People once a year come to certain institutions where they undergo the “broadcast” procedure so as not to lose the accumulated information as a result of some accident (in the webmaster language, dump the database). And after 80 - 120 or even more years, after when the biological membrane becomes unusable and the numerous transplants of the "fresh" cloned organs will not bring the "desired success", the person will continue to live in the information space. Sooner or later, humanity, "living" in the information space, will think about why the stage of the human cycle in the biological envelope is needed at all, because it is not perfect, and for its functioning it requires a lot of resources (water, food, medicine, heat, clothes, etc., etc.), moreover, there are fewer and fewer resources on the planet. Then the number of people arriving in "biological form" will be reduced, and after that only a miserable handful of people will be left to conduct various scientific experiments.
    How do you like this vector of human development? I think not very much. But the dead end of the development of human civilization, the limited resources of the planet are unlikely to promise anything good to humanity in the distant future.

    A.V. Egoshin

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