Jacque Fresco Quotes

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Genetic engineering of are own species is not a question of if, but only a question of when….The human race may bifurcate into two subspecies of humans: Enhanced and Unenhanced.

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

We should place priority on the development of safeguards against unwise, permanent alterations in the human gene pool. Now that we have become principle agents of evolution, it is crucially important to recognize that the pursuit of short-term goals through human modification can be dangerously inconsistent with the long-term best interests of the human species.

Advancing waves of other people’s progress sweep over the unchanging man and wash him out.

With science, technology and globalization, man is changing the world faster than his evolution can keep up with the new dangers.

… biologists are now going to be directing evolution.

Through writing, Homo sapiens then became the first species to preserve learning, enabling knowledge to grow, ultimately at an exponential pace. Collective learning over time then became the source of technological improvement, a process that could move much faster than evolution.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

We're going to merge with machines and become gods, but first, we've got to reduce the world population 90 percent.

Surely, if we are going to be better at producing food of the right value, then we have to accept that genetic technology... is going to be part of that.