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Is There Still Homo Sapiens?
I think it's very unlikely that there will still be Homo sapiens like you and me in 200 years or 300 years, but it can happen in different ways. The worst way is that we will just destroy ourselves in some nuclear catastrophe or whatever. Then there is another frightening scenario that we will use the immense powers of bioengineering and artificial intelligence to try and create a new super-species. And because we don't really understand the consequences of what we are doing, it will be a downgrade. Sometimes there are simple things in history, but very often things are complicated. There are very few big revolutions in history which are all good or all bad. You have to give the full picture and