• Question: How will mankind evolve given changes in technology?

    Asked by ExplosiveBiskit to Aaron, David, Elaine, Sarah, Zoe on 12 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by will.r.
    • Photo: David Foley

      David Foley answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Our evolution is so slow – a generation for us is 70-80 years and evolution takes multiple generations, that we probably won’t change very much at all as technology becomes a bigger part of our lives. How that technology improves or damages our lifestyle and lifespan will be the bigger challenges and opportunities, I feel.

    • Photo: Sarah Ashwood

      Sarah Ashwood answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      I think it is highly likely that the average lifespan will decrease in coming years. While healthcare and our understanding of medicine and illness is increasing, the lifestyle that we are living is changing as a result of technology. Obesity is on the rise because people are in such high pressure jobs and don’t have time to exercise. The economic crisis means people feel more stress/pressure to work longer hours and high levels of stress can be damaging to health. The increase in technology means we all spend a lot of the day sat at a computer and not doing much else. This is going to have an impact the overall health of the general public.
      Overpopulation is also becoming more of an issue. People have the ability to live longer, and have more healthy children and while this is a great thing in terms of the strides that science is taking, this isn’t maintainable in terms of jobs/resources. We either need to find a way to maintain the expanding world, or things are going to go into decline.

    • Photo: Zoe Roberts

      Zoe Roberts answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      It takes a very long time for humans to evolve and even then it is very small things. I think the more concerning issue here is what are the effects of this world we have created were technology is so abundant. Mobile phones are still a relatively new things (!) and we don’t know the long term affects they will have on our bodies, if any.

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