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NEVERTHELESS
BE SURE ABOUT
THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF HISTORY!
In the 21st century, the third project of humankind will be to acquire for us
'Divine Powers' of creation & destruction, and upgrade Homo Sapiens into Homo Deus?
This third project obviously subsumes the first two projects, & is fueled by them! We want the ability to re-
engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but once we have it,
who knows what else we might do with such ability? So we might well think of "the new Human Agenda" as
consisting really of only one project (with many branches): attaining divinity? If this sounds unscientific
or downright eccentric, it is because people often misunderstand the meaning of divinity! Divinity isn't
anymore a vague metaphysical quality! And it isn't the same as omnipotence! When speaking of up-
grading humans into gods, think more in terms of Greek gods or Hindu devas rather than the omni-
"potent biblical Sky Father"? Our DESCENDANTS would still have their foibles, kinks and limitations,
just as Zeus & Indra had theirs? But they could love, háte, create and destròy on a much grander scale
than ùs! Throughout history most gods were believed to enjoy nòt omnipotence but rather certain specific
super-abilities such as the ability to design and create Living Beings; to transform their own bodies;
to control the environment and the weather; to read minds and to communicate at a distance; to travel àt
very high speeds; and of course to escape death ànd lìve indefinitely!? Humans are in the business
of acquiring all these abilities, ànd thèn sòme! Certain traditional abilities that were considered divine
for many millennia have today become so commonplace that we hardly think about them?
The average person now moves ànd communicates
across distances much more
easily than the Greek,
Hindu or African
'gods of
old'!
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