Future of Humans - was: Having a child is immoral, the Earth is overcrowded!

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In article <43a9ga$76i@lehua.ilhawaii.net>,
Jay Hanson <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> wrote:
>In article <sasha1DEt8MC.8Ho@netcom.com>, sasha1@netcom.com says...
>>
>>In my opinion, however, humans have enough resources until the evolution
>>makes the next great leap - and the transhuman "civilization" will have
>>entirely different means and goals.
>
>Could you elaborate?
>
Well, human civilization is a very recent evolutionary penomenon,
and there is absolutely no reason to think that it is the final
stage in the functional evolution of the Universe.

There are lots of ideas in transhumanism on what, when, and how
may happen next; you can find many references at my Web site; I could
also e-mail you some texts I have in ASCII.
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