
One of the first predictions about the future of mankind was given by H.G. Wells in a short article from 1893 called "Man in the year one million". In this fantastic text he claims that what has helped man in mastering nature, the brain and the hands, will keep on developing, while what is left from the early and more primitive stages of man will slowly be inactive, shrink and eventually almost disappear. In other words he is describing a picture of creatures with enormous heads, staring eyes but poorly equiped with noses, ears and limbs, except from their hands. It should be expected that such large heads would require larger bodies to carry them around, but Wells was asuming that in the year one million people will already be long past walking, they will be lying in nutrient solution and be occupied with nothing but thinking.
You cannot deny the fact that the most important progress in the development of Homo Sapiens is the increase in intelligence and technical skill, therefore it might not be totally nonsense to speak about the next step in the evolution, Homo Superior, the race that will take over after us, to be of significantly higher intelligence and technological advancement.
But if we are asuming that the evolution normally works through the exclution of the inactive organs and limbs in favour of a further development of the active parts of the human body, as stated in the section on the evolution of the brain, is it then possible by denying activity of any physical action of the body to force the brain to expand, to develop into further stages? Are we actually able to reach the evolutionary stage of Homo Superior purely by will? We have earlier made clear that Homo Sapiens is in a strange position regarding Darwin´s idea of natural selection, that a development through nature is unpredictable and not necessarily will lead to an increase in our intellectual abilities, and that our society is based on a common responsibility. So, what will be necessary is to be determined to reach that stage, a common decission within the society of the human race has to be made to achieve the goal of Homo Superior. And the way of getting there is to avoid all unnecessary physical activity, any activity that would strenghten any other bodily functions than the ones of the brain and the senses that are linked to communication (A later denying of these senses could possibly be imagined to lead to developing telepathic abilities, although this seems more like a fantasy). There is no doubt that this will cause the elimination of many of the individuals of our present society as all are brought to the same level, the same physical conditions, which then makes it up to the intellectual abilities and their skills in working out a way of surviving. This will once again be a society where the mutations of the brain are under the influence of a natural selection that eventually leads to a "survival of the fittest" that is not of the "strongest and biggest" in a physical sense, but a survival of the "intelligent".
If it could ever be possible to make this common decission within all of the human race, if everybody would be willing to pay the price of a society where only those able to adjust themselves to the new conditions survives, and there is no doubt that it will take many years, many generations, of suffering, we could very well be on our way to the next step on the evolutionary ladder, and hopefully reassure a steady progress.