My concerns are the future of a century from now will seem to be – from the perspective of one of the Elite – damn near a different world.

We have seen what Cultural Eugenics could do in less than forty years, with Singapore.

My concern is two areas will merge – Artificial Intelligence, and Eugenics.

These areas are compounding out in terms of growth of knowledge, and could work together to usher in a phase shift event for Mankind, at the expense of Humanity – homo superior.

Take an extra 10% increase in intelligence, and compound it over several generations.

At a certain point, certain trends become obvious, and Homo Superior will look at us as we look at pets.

I have no doubt the Chinese are working on this full tilt; even Britain has admitted to “chimera” experiments – human/animal engineering.

We of the “Limits to Growth” crowd see what they will see – there is little to no need for about ninety percent of humanity.

It will make “Brave New World” seem like Paradise Island.

If I had my schooling to do over, I would have skipped the business courses, and taken a ton of biology, because the future will be shaped by Living Systems.

And not all of them will be “human,” as we know it.

Let me repeat this – ninety percent of humanity AS WE KNOW IT will be net negatives, in Malthusian terms.

I am brutally determined that MY nephews, and THEIR Posterity, will be on the Winning Team.

By. Any. Means. Necessary.

Excellent Piece!

“A different WORLD.” Totally different TRENDS!

In an earlier piece u are talking about will happen faster than you think. You bring down one of the Absolute Inevitables of the Future, population growth.

In an earlier piece I mentioned the monumental importance of the end of the Mach 2.2 Supersonic Transport, the STT. It just didn’t catch on and died with a whimper, whereas every other major jump in civilian transportation speed had become part of the landscape. I seemed to be only one who noticed it was a hell of change when the latest Big Jump died.

Please note I did NOT predict an inevitable future in which we moved steadily back to stagecoaches I just noted that one of our most rigid Inevitables went away. On you point about populating, I remember a TV news item a generation ago when India decided to reduce her population explosion by using vasectomies.

It showed one Indian lying down in the train section to get a vasectomy. What was the Great Cultural Revolution they used to get him to do it? They gave him a small portable radio.

Maybe it is because I am so familiar with the third world, but I was always amused by the Great Sociologists and their Sophisticated Cultural Explanations of the huge families in the third world. You know, the Manhood by lots of Children stuff. Manhood by Large Families, to the extent it was true, was true because they were incapable of having anything BUT large families.

If you think whites traded off larger families for big houses and new cars and college educations, you ain’t seen nothing until you see transistor radios at work in the third world.

On Planet Earth, population GROWTH – not population yet — is dropping like a rock. That was my POINT about the future in the SST article. But commenters obsessed on the example instead of the LESSON.

“Ideology is dying, genetics is being born.” Simmons’s summation is the sort of thing we should be drawing out of these discussions of the future. AFKAN’s summary of the changeover from quantity to quality is this sort of lesson. We should be looking at TRENDS, not Popular Science-type “the latest thing” talk.

I was just reading a description of the present situation in San Francisco. In passing, they said, “as in most major cities, blacks are moving out.”

Twenty years ago the inevitable future was that major cities were all going to become ghettoes with all the affluent whites out in the suburbs. Nobody seems to notice that the “inevitable future” changes every decade or two like every other fad.

I was bemused by another point in the discussion It turns out that, as with “other major cities,” the whites moving in are HAVING TOO FEW CHILDREN. Now PLEASE don’t turn these little observations into a grand prediction of a grand revolution in thinking that is inevitable in the future. I just think it is healthy to keep pointing out how SILLY all these prophecies, INCLUDING THE PROPHECIES OF DOOM, are.

In 1900, the inevitable was represented by the phrase The Vanishing American. Indians were dying out. Ever since the end of slavery, when the black death rate suddenly doubled, blacks were an ever-decreasing portion of the American population. Blacks who moved north died because of their lack of “the sunshine vitamin,” Vitamin D, because their black skins blocked their getting adequate sun.

We all know what The Inevitable Future of Race was in 2000. Our job is to change it.

If you compare turn-of-the-century radiotelegraph to the TV networks of the 1950s, and notice things move FASTER now, you can get a look at how I view the coming century. Look at us as 1908 instead of 2008, instead of wireless radio, look at biological advances.

I remember when cloning was declared impossible, about two decades ago. I remember when heart transplants were declared impossible, and then when those who had declared them impossible were banking on the fact that patients only lived a few extra months or years.

So I will put a news time here, which I seldom do:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/05/26/regrowing.body.parts/index.html#

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) — Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad last year….

What the usual discussion of this would produce would be a set of comments by Super Doctor Gillboob saying this is nonsense or Respected Finger Specialist Gottlieb saying this one won’t work or Harvard Ethics Professor Finklestein saying it’s Evil and Pat Robertson backing him up. I would also receive the usual statement about the different between embryonic stem cells and others.

My idea of the future is entirely different. I have been described by those who have know me for decades as “so right it’s CREEPY” about the future because I see a PICTURE, not a bunch of current news or current commentary. I see a PICTURE.

As I said, I look at this finger replacement ATTEMPT the way I would have looked at wireless telegraphy as Marconi moved from sending signals room to room to sending them across his yard and so forth, year after year.

The reason Georgia dentist Crawford Long’s anesthesia was rejected and patients had to have surgery in agony for years was because, when he demonstrated nitrous oxide, the patient GROANED. That happened with NO2 though the patient was deep under. It justified the experts that anesthesia was impossible.

Cute joke. Look what it COST!

But Crawford Long clearly demonstrated that doctors were TRYING anesthesia long before they finally found out what the far more dangerous method later adopted was tested out. It was the key to the FUTURE, which is my concern.

If we are to influence the future, we must have a clear idea of what it will NOT be like. ALL our present discussions of the future are hopelessly mired in what IS and the expectations drawn from what IS.

I have discussed this before, but had no real comments on it. That was why I was so ecstatic to see Prometheus’ exposition on temporal provincialism below.

Has anybody ever studied Whites in prehistory? It’s depressing.

There were White Eurasian tribes in North and South America 9,000 years ago. They were wiped out by the Amerindians. Same in China and many other places. A combination of conquest and interbreeding.

Presumably there weren’t any Jews around in those days. We could do the job pretty well by ourselves.

All those centuries living in the frozen north during the Ice Age made us superior in many ways, but they took away our natural defences. You could only survive and pass on your genes if you were prepared to help and share, so we bred a race that was too trusting. Living among other more selfish races, we didn’t stand a chance.

Bob’s right when he says the future belongs to the few whites who have inherited immunity to the ‘white guilt’ virus. I just hope there are enough of them to sustain a people.

— richard

I can’t speak for whites nine thousand years ago. I was much younger and less observant back then. As I remember my big interest at that time was developing a palatable recipe for mammoth stew.

In more recent millennia, our big problem has been that we developed a unique way of thinking. No other race ever asked whether life itself was WORTH LIVING. Hinduism and Buddhism came in an age when it wasn’t. Their goal was not, as we Christians misinterpret it, achieving Heaven or Nirvana, but achieving total annihilation, total oblivion, escape from the Wheel of Life represented by eternal reincarnation.

Modern Political Correctness is totally white supremacist in this sense. There is no question of a question in Politically Correct doctrine that the white race, and ONLY the white race, would consider self-annihilation the ultimate virtue. It would never occur to any adherent of our established religion that a black man or a Jew or an Oriental would consider the end of his own genotype to be a VIRTUE.