It is no comfort to find that some of the genetic experiments are humanoids designed to replace humanity.
A journey around the islands of St Kilda, with its incantation of place names, becomes a motif of the bridgeless gulf between those man-named clefts and stacks and the seabirds that have replaced humanity there.
But we must all agree that in principle it's perfectly possible that in a million years the evil cyborgs who have replaced humanity will look fondly on the capacity for organised killing of mere flesh-and-blood organisms in the early 21st century.
Those who constantly rang the warning bells that technology would replace humanity have proven themselves wrong time and time again, as over the last 2,000 years our quality of life has increased with technological advancements and jobs have been plentiful.
He and Vastra travel to Simeon's lab, where the Doctor notes the Intelligence's plan to replace humanity with ice creatures and holds up the tin with the necessary DNA.
The adjective manly is forbidden and mankind is out, replaced by humanity.
Drumont's virulently anti-Semitic "La France Juive" ("Jewish France"), published in 1886, became an immediate bestseller; Barrès's acclaimed 1897 novel, "Les Déracinés" ("The Uprooted"), insisted that the main task in hand should be to restore France's "natural order" by replacing republican "citizens of humanity" with "Frenchmen of France".
Both the movies and the series take it for granted that the world will end in the semi-near future if a computerized mechanism called Skynet achieves its goal of exterminating humanity and replacing it with cyborgs of dubious ambition and character.
The scene is a step away from an Iron Curtain "Napoleon Dynamite," but with that film's sweet-hearted humanity replaced by a grotesque simulacrum of humanism enforced with cruelty.
Another Spielberg film, A.I., paints a peaceful, yet melancholy future where technology tries to but can't quite replace elements of humanity.
