Cyborg anthropologist, Amber Case (who spoke at the TED conference in 2010), argues that the current "technological humanity" in which we live can actually be considered as a new stage in humanity, just as we once progressed from Neanderthals to Homo Sapiens.
The most important message probably is that at the current rate humanity is going to blow through the 2 degrees celsius target governments have set as an indicator of where the warming gets dangerous.
This is tragically mirrored in the current state of humanity.
In the daily hubbub of current "crises" facing humanity, we forget about the many generations we hope are yet to come.
Allowing the Sudanese government to avoid justice for its deplorable human rights record sends the wrong message to the world and gives comfort to regimes looking to deny responsibility for committing both past and current crimes against humanity.
Known as the Singularity, it represents the moment when computers become so advanced that they "escape the limitations of the human brain", booting themselves into ever-higher levels of intelligence and rendering our current idea of humanity redundant.
"Climate change is a problem with serious implications for the global environmental, social, economic, distribution [systems] and policies and constitutes one of the main current challenges for humanity," The Vatican reacted with fury to the leak on Monday night, accusing the magazine responsible "heinous act" that amounted to "sabotage against the pope".
Each species represents a unique set of solutions to a set of biological problems, any one of which can be of critical importance to the advance of medicine, to productive agriculture, to the biology that provides current support for humanity, and, most importantly, will provide solutions to the environmental challenge.
This spontaneous outpouring of generosity left us totally humbled and reinstated my faith in the current state of humanity.
While this mentality has, in part, led to the perscription med frenzy plaguing many a generation, the monumental contributions of Freud to our current understandings of humanity are undeniable.
