>Is a "Star Trek future" a future where humans roughly equivlaant to
today's
>humans in intelligence live in a world full of extemely high
technology? If so
>I consider it a fantasy. A Star Trek level of technology is far more
than
>sufficient to permit massive intelligence augmentation. There is no
reason
>to believe the resulting intelligences will live as humans do.
>
Indeed, Some episodes of Star Trek, The Next Generation actially HAD massive levels of intelligence augmentation.
They threw it away, and never mentioned it again.
[Talk about staring into the singularity :)]
Darin Sunley
darin25@hotmail.com