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The report, which drew upon a team of science researchers and a survey of more than 10,000 workers based in China, Germany, India, the U.K., and the U.S., predicts that rapid advances in technology, resource scarcity, and population demographics are among the key forces that would radically shape the future of work by 2030…"
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One can only imagine what the future will bring with those drugs….

Amicalement
Armand

New Eugenics?

Dan

Oh Happy Days a comin'……

You should see me after a few pints, I turn into Rambo!

I'm growing a Rogue Trooper even as I write this!

Old Eugenics never died, Dan; it just got rebranded as "social genetics". Not even the Holocaust could kill the idea that we should create a race of super humans.

The question is, how far would each of us be willing to go personally? I'm quite the Luddite myself; I resisted getting a cellphone for years, until it became a de facto prerequisite for employment. I could easily see the same thing happening with microchips and/or genetic modification: they will be legally "voluntary", but realistically prerequisite to living in middle-class Western society.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand