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Future Human Evolution and Views of the Future Human: Technological Perspectives and Challenges

Linda Groff [email protected]View all authors and affiliations
Volume 7, Issue 2-3
https://doi.org/10.1177/1946756715608956

Abstract

Change is accelerating, with rapid and continuing advances in technology being among the leading forces shaping human evolution today. This article examines eight distinct technologies impacting future human evolution and views of the future human, noting possible advantages and concerns related to each. Although other non-technological factors are equally crucial to any serious evaluation of humanity’s potential for evolution (discussed in other writings), this article focuses on infotech- and biotech-based transhumanist views, robotics and artificial intelligence, cybernetic enhancement, genetic engineering, the Internet as an externalized global brain, and the evolutionary consequences of space exploration and settlement—which all merit careful consideration.

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Biographies

Linda Groff, is Director, Global Options and Evolutionary Futures Consulting, and Emeritus Professor, political science and future studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She is a longtime futurist and member of World Future Society (WFS), World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF), and Association of Professional Futurists (APF). She teaches, writes, consults, and gives talks and workshops throughout the United States and globally on futures/evolution/change; peace/conflict resolution/non-violence; intercultural/interfaith dialogue; and evolving consciousness. She has published more than seventy articles, with books in preparation, including Evolution Evolving: Cutting-Edge Issues for Humanity and the World, and is the guest editor of two Special Issues of World Future Review on Future Human Evolution published in Fall 2014 and Summer/Fall 2015.
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