I was going to dismiss this article as cobblers until I read this bit:
Within a thousand years, humans will evolve into coffee-coloured giants between six and seven feet tall, [Oliver Curry] predicts. Improved nutrition and medical science will see people growing taller and fitter, while life-spans are extended to 120 years.
Women … will develop lighter skin, large clear eyes, pert breasts, glossy hair, even features and smooth hairless skin.
Racial differences will be ironed out by interbreeding, producing a uniform race of coffee-coloured people.
“Tall mocha with pert breasts for the man on his own in the corner with a Palm Pilot!”
Hate to rain on anybody’s parade — least of all my own — but, if this were serious, I don’t think current fashions in internet pr0n are likely to cause women with more body hair or less pert breasts to have fewer descendants. Dammit.
Mr Curry thinks that people should be brown.
Perhaps Mr Berry thinks they should be red?
Mr Finch, yellow?
And Mr Scott, tartan?
A thousand years? According to who you read, living forever (let alone to 120) is only twenty years away. I find that a bit optimistic, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find out my kids lived to be at least 120, and my grandkids lived “forever”.
Let’s face it, either we’re going to perish as a race, by our own hands or not, intentionally or not, or the next evolutionary step of Homo Sapiens Sapiens will be completely engineered by those same Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
I forgot.
Mr. Price (tag) thinks that they should be flourescent orange.
HG Wells predicted it all. It’s the Eloi and Morlocks, man. And remember who ate whom. Level 42 lead singer versus the troll on bass all over again.
If life is going to be so full of exciting options for the posthumanoid in 1,000 years time, why would all of us choose to be exactly the same colour? Can’t some of us be chameleons, please Dr Curry sir?
[…] I couldn’t be bothered to fisk that nonsense about the “future evolution” of humankind that was all over the media this week, merely dropping it into my “Pseudoscience” and “Tin Foil Hat Wearers” blog categories in passing instead. Luckily the World has P Z Myers to do the job properly. […]