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To: skinowski who wrote (101562)	6/25/2013 5:22:55 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 219449

Humans are not fungible. They do not all have the same drives nor philosophical foundations, nor brain design: <You think the advent of the Cyberspace will change the passions which "normally" drive humans? > Yes, those humans fit for purpose will be better adapted to survive, breed and change their DNA to fit the new ecological niche and they will act in symbiosis with the first ever extra-somatic sentience. Genetic engineering and selection will turbocharge the process [it's already being done]. Think of a tribe of chimps in the African jungle and compare them with New York or better still, the whole globalized modern world. That's quite a difference. But it's not as big a difference as is coming between humans of the late 20th century and the Cyberspace realm of the end of the 21st century. And the difference in the next 90 years is coming a lot faster than the transition from chimp tribal lifestyle to New York lifestyle. We are seeing some preliminary skirmishes in that transition as the Cyberspacoids resist the temporal barbarians who are trying to subvert Cyberspace via Turnkey Tyranny to their atavistic ways. It's time to say goodbye to the temporal, alpha male, territorial, kleptocratic, tribal, xenophobic, and sometimes genocidal, dominance hierarchy = that's so last century. Tradable Citizenship would help the process along in a civil way. We the Cyberspacoids, Mqurice