"Post-human evolution (whether of organic species or of artefacts) will proceed far faster than the changes that led to emergence, because it will be intelligently directed rather than being - like pre-human evolution - the gradual outcome of Darwinian natural selection. Changes will drastically accelerate in the present century - through intentional genetic modifications, targeted drugs, perhaps even silicon implants in to the brain. Humanity may not persist as a single species for more than a few centuries - especially if communities have by then become established away from the earth." Martin Rees, Cosmologist, Cambridge University; Author, Our Final Hour
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“Under Medicare policy, the needs of someone outside the home are negligible. If you can limp 10 feet to the bathroom, or move from the refrigerator to the sink to make dinner, then Medicare will not cover a power wheelchair, even if you can’t walk down the block to the grocery store for the food in the first place. So chances are that if you are walking when you come into Lieberman’s clinic, Medicare won’t pay for your wheelchair.”
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