These people have have started again..can you imagine what they came up with this time?
Read this article from Forbes and it's about how the human face will look in the next 100,000 years ...
Nickolay Lamm, a blogger collaborated with Dr. Alan Kwan, who has a PhD in Computational Genomics from Washington University, to hypothesize what we may look like in the future. The following is written by him…
While the future remains unknowable (for now), Nickolay Lamm
produced one set of possible changes to the human face in one possible timeline
where, 100,000 years in the future, through zygotic genome engineering
technology, our future selves control human biology and human evolution the way
we control electrons today. In this future, humankind has wrested control of
the human form from natural evolution and are able to bend human biology to
human needs. This future scenario and these figures are envisioned by Dr. Alan
Kwan, PhD Computational Genomics from Washington University.
As our understanding of the universe increases, I predict
that the human head will trend larger to accommodate a larger brain. But
instead of some orthogonal evolutionary path that ends up with the 210th
century human a la Futurama’s Morbo the anchor-alien, the rule of viable human
biology will still apply and so the entire head will trend larger, though with
a bias for a greater cranium growth than facial growth; the human 20,000 years
from now would look to us like someone today except we would notice the
forehead is subtly too large.
While evolution in space is only beginning to be explored
today, I would hazard a guess that millennia of human space colonization of
Earth-orbit and other solar system space colonies will also select for…
1. Larger eyes in response to the dimmer environment of
colonies further from the Sun than Earth.
2. More pigmented skin to alleviate the damaging impact of
much more harmful UV radiation outside of the Earth’s protective ozone.
3. Thicker eyelids or a more pronounced superciliary arch to
alleviate the effects low or no gravity that disrupt and disorient the eyesight
of today’s astronauts on the ISS.
By this point in time, communications lenses (commlens) in
contacts and miniature bone-conduction devices implanted above the ear will
work in tandem. Bone-conduction devices, with embedded nanochips, will
communicate with some external device for communications and entertainment.
This human face will be heavily biased towards features that
humans find fundamentally appealing: strong, regal lines, straight nose,
intense eyes, and placement of facial features that adhere to the golden ratio
and left/right perfect symmetry. Functional bias will be incorporated into the
vanity driven constraints above. Eyes would seem unnervingly large to us and
have “eye shine” from the tapetum lucidum. Sideways blink of the reintroduced
plica semilunaris to further protect from cosmic ray effects would be
particularly startling.
Kwan says that 60,000 years from now, our ability to control
the human genome will also make the effect of evolution on our facial
features moot. As genetic engineering becomes the norm, “the fate of the human
face will be increasingly determined by human tastes,” he says in a research
document. Eyes will meanwhile get larger, as attempts to colonize Earth’s
solar system and beyond see people living in the dimmer environments of
colonies further away from the Sun than Earth. Similarly, skin will become more
pigmented to lesson the damage from harmful UV radiation outside of the Earth’s
protective ozone. Kwan expects people to have thicker eyelids and a more
pronounced superciliary arch (the smooth, frontal bone of the skull under the
brow), to deal with the effects of low gravity.
The remaining 40,000 years, or 100,000 years from now, Kwan
believes the human face will reflect “total mastery over human morphological
genetics. This human face will be heavily biased towards features that humans
find fundamentally appealing: strong, regal lines, straight nose, intense eyes,
and placement of facial features that adhere to the golden ratio and left/right
perfect symmetry,” he says.
Eyes will seem “unnervingly large” — as least from our
viewpoint today — and will feature eye-shine and even a sideways blink from the
re-introduced plica
semilunaris to further protect from cosmic ray effects.
There will be other functional necessities: larger nostrils
for easier breathing in off-planet environments, denser hair to contain
heat loss from a larger head — features which people may have to weigh up
against their tastes for what’s genetically trendy at the time. Instead of just
debating what to name a child as new parents do today, they might also have to
decide if they want their children to carry the most natural expression of a
couple’s DNA, such as their eye-color, teeth and other features they can
genetically alter.
The bird’s eye view of human beings in 100,000 years will be
people who want to be wirelessly plugged in, Kwan says, but with minimal
disruption to what may then be perceived as the “perfect” human face.
what do you think about this?
Do you think their prediction will come to reality or that the King of Glory, Jesus will come to take the saints away before 100,000 years from now.
See Nickolay Lamm’s illustrations below
Today: A typical-looking man and woman. Image credit: Nickolay Lamm |
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