{"id":21547,"date":"2016-02-02T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/futurologist-dr-ian-pearson-says-technology-is-causing-humans-to-evolve"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:38:08","slug":"futurologist-dr-ian-pearson-says-technology-is-causing-humans-to-evolve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/futurologist-dr-ian-pearson-says-technology-is-causing-humans-to-evolve","title":{"rendered":"Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson says technology is causing humans to \u2018evolve\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I still get a kick out of these types of articles because it is the classic \u201cFear of the Unknown\u201d getting folks worked up. A) we don\u2019t have enough information to confirm or not confirm whether humans will totally disappear and morph into a half Human and half machine species. B) it doesn\u2019t scare me at all because I will make the choice if I decide that I want or need an implant. And, if I do, then more than likely it was to help me beat a disease like cancer or to enrich my life somehow just like I would opt for a surgery or procedure today. Nothing more.<\/p>\n

However, there is one thing that is certain and that is Quantum Technology itself is going to truly transform everything in our lives. And, I mean EVERYTHING (medical\/ healthcare, manufacturing, AI, devices, communications, services, raw materials enrichment, etc.).<\/p>\n

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Ipswich-based Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson has explained how technology will impact on our evolution, such as the rise of Homo optimus \u2014 and how it could affect our pets\u2019.<\/p>\n

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I still get a kick out of these types of articles because it is the classic \u201cFear of the Unknown\u201d getting folks worked up. A) we don\u2019t have enough information to confirm or not confirm whether humans will totally disappear and morph into a half Human and half machine species. B) it doesn\u2019t scare me [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,1495,1635,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-health","category-materials","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44146,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21547\/revisions\/44146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}