Day 4

It'll certainly be an exciting next couple of years for advances in genetics. It's the next big thing. Imagine everyone being smarter for no reason other than the fact that we've been able to pick the best genetic material out there. No more down syndrome or maybe even the eradication of cancer. It'll be an age to test the limits of humans, letting us be all we can imagine ourselves to be. It's slowly started already. Just look at universities around the world. Students there are taking ADD and ADHD medications already to focus themselves and allow them to power through nights full of assignments. It's crazy to think such little pills can make someone sit in a library for twelve hours straight and just pump out work after work. I'm guessing the first thing you see happen with a lot of those medicines is they become over-the-counters instead of prescriptions. That'll be the first step and a necessary one, especially if we're going to offset the negative aspects of having genetically different generations. Those who either can't afford the new genetic screening and selection for their offspring will have to have cheap pharmaceuticals that will enhance their possible performance to be on the same level as people who are genetically the best of their parents.

It's not too far-fetched. A lot of air forces around the world allow their pilots to use these kinds of drugs to stay awake for long missions and increase performance. It's the age of enhancement, all we need to do is make sure the opportunities for enhancement are equally available to everyone. If we can make people work twice as efficiently with half the energy then we've really done a service to the world. Imagine only having to work a twenty hour work week. We could spend so much more time solving the world's problems with the extra hours of work we put in without having to have more people. The evils of our age could be fought by the brightest people amongst us. We would be able to accomplish what needs to be done to obtain the lifestyle we want and then move on to tackle cancer, AIDS, and world hunger. All in time for lunch.