(June 16, 2016 at 3:57 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: I think we will evolve to get smarter unless we develop computers and phones that do all our thinking for us and become fully dependent on them, in which case we will very very slowly devolve in intelligence I think. In the end we may be hairless chimps on a planet protected by machines that provide us all our desires and needs in a virtual reality.
Brave New World springs to mind.
Provided they give me back rubs, turn me over occasionally and hand drinks with umbrellas .. okay.