Just so you know, mass education and literacy have improved the world immeasurably.
You weren’t good at it and now you’ve got sour grapes? The universe doesn’t care.
Which means what exactly?
God bless Capitalism and The Cold War!
Literacy is great. It makes it easier to educate yourself.
Mass education beyond the three R’s is utter garbage.
Law and order?
For the people with the “right genes”.
Should not be surprised anymore, but this was pretty grotesque:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-supremacy-racehorse-theory-1064928/
A super breed of humans probably couldn’t be made through selective breeding, but specific traits can definitely be made more prevalent.
As to which Trump was referring, I have no idea.
Why do you think that?
If anything it would seem to be the best time is human history to do exactly that…science wise…not political wise.
Usually when a species becomes too genetically similar it is disadvantageous. Having vast genetic variation increases the chances of survival. If everyone was the same, a single catastrophic event could wipe everyone out.
If you mean genetically engineering humans that could be a future possibility, but I don’t think the science is near exact enough yet.
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Whose to say the superhumans couldn’t continue to mate with we normals and still achieve great great things?
Natural selection has already made mankind on average as smart as mankind is going to get. The remaining stupidity is irreduceable.
A super breed can perhaps be made by genetic engineering - or by a fortuitous random mutation. But it wouldn’t really be human.
If it was done by rapidly decreasing the breeding pool there would probably be too many unwanted effects like we see in dogs. If it was done through genetically engineering, it could work if the public could overlook the bad things that would inevitably happen on the way.
That much is clear. We’re getting better at externally saving intelligence and passing it on though.
Likewise with stupidity. Technology does not judge.
I doubt it’s long until we have direct access to all the knowledge.
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Including future knowledge?
Some of us have been in intellectual heaven since broadband Internet came along. No need to waste bookshelf space on public domain classics. No need to buy multiple newspapers to get around the reporting biases.
And other people play Candy Crush and look at cat pictures.
Still other people look at kiddie porn.
Still other people get into a frothing rage over some lie and then gets the heads up where the riot will be at.
Information technology has been making smart people smarter since some unjustly forgotten genius invented alphabetic writing. But it’s not even remotely egalitarian in its effects. It does next to nothing for average minds, and makes stupid people even more dangerous.
Are you suggesting there is some vast undiscovered innate knowledge locked away in our DNA or somehow extracting knowledge from a more advanced parallel universe? Savant behavior x1000? Time travel? I’m lost.
That would be cool, and I’m sure that there’s stuff in our DNA that we are unaware of or don’t understand yet.
But no, I was suggesting that we will learn new things in the future that we aren’t learning now.
Ben Franklin didn’t think about nuclear fusion.
I’m sure everything available will be added to the matrix and edited accordingly to our best understanding
It would be scary if such a great power was malevolently manipulated like 1984s history for example
DO you not have a TV?
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I have no arguments. 
But I watch less than an hour a week probably, so I’m immune.
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