Don't be anything but natural

Have you ever thought about what life would be in just ten or twenty more years later? Do you think that we will eventually create super human beings? Well, if you read a book called “Radical Evolution,” then you will know exactly what’s going to happen. I’ve only read the first two chapters in the book, but I’ve already been sucked into it. The book tells us many things that the different organizations are currently doing now. He also gives us examples to better understand what he is talking about.

For example, in the first chapter, he gives an example of a girl that is today your second grade daughter. Fifteen years later, she will graduate and come back for the Holidays. You ask her, “What are your classmates like, honey?” She would probably tell you something like, “They’re all really, really smart.” In fifteen years, we might be able to create “enhanced” human beings. These “enhanced” human beings will not only be faster and more creative, the will also have photographic memories and total recall.

All of them will be almost “immortal” and be able to heal pain within minutes. We might even have vaccinations against pain later. They talk to each other by “silent messaging” and they receive new information by cocking their head a certain way. All of them almost never sleep and they constantly talk about getting rid of their beds. Joel Garreau got me thinking about all of those movies of super humans or advanced technology things.

One movie that sounds similar to the example above is “IRobot” and “Smart House.” IRobot’s setting in the movie is the future. They show humans interacting with robots and commanding them. The robots will do everything for you. This seems very desirable at first, but at the end, the robots end up going haywire and killing people. Watching that movie really altered the way I thought about robots coming alive. It would be great to have them do our everyday chores, but in the end, its humans that become stupid and end up relying on robots to do everything.

“Smart House” is a similar movie about a family winning the new state of the art technology house that does everything for you. It can cook, wake you up, turn on the T.V. for you, and many other things. In the end, however, the house goes haywire and attempts to lock in everyone and not let them out. I think the directors of these movies have some knowledge about what’s going on in our society now. A lot of companies and organizations are on the way to creating the “Super Humans” or “Enhanced” beings.

One of the many organizations and companies that are building our new future include the Defense Sciences Office of the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Their main goal is to further human enhancements. The president of the agency is Michael Goldblatt. The reason that started DARPA is because he has a daughter named Gina Goldblatt that has cerebral palsy. He wants to create more enhancements that will allow his daughter to be normal like everyone else.

DARPA is constantly thinking up new ways to enhance the human body. One thing that Joel mentioned was creating soldiers that have no physical limitations. Goldblatt says he wants to create better humans like “Soldiers having no physical, physiological, or cognitive limitations will be key to survival and operational dominance in the future.” All of what DARPA and the other organizations are creating sounds great. It would be a great leap for the human race if we could invent our own ways to healing cancer and defeating natural death.

If you think about it, what if the chemicals or gene doping don’t work in your body. What if they end up creating illnesses for you instead? There are many things to think about before you decide to put nanotechnology machines in your body or having some serum increase your life span. In my personal opinion, I don’t think that we should do any of these things because they can malfunction.

I believe we should be “natural.” We should be what we are and not try to alter it by “enhancing” ourselves. I don’t mean to say that it’s bad to create super human beings; I just don’t think that it’s right. It’s our fate to either have cancer or die at a young age. You can’t control what happens to you or what gender you are. I would rather have a normal “human being” friend than an “enhanced” friend. At least you can have a better conversation with normal humans than technology made ones. In the future, if super humans really do exist, I guess I can’t do anything but accept it.