The food surpluses produced by peasants, coupled with new transportation technology, eventually enabled more and more people to cram together first i… - Yuval Noah Harari

In the future, however, we may see real gaps in physical and cognitive abilities opening between an upgraded upper class and the rest of society.

One potential remedy for human stupidity is a dose of humility. National, religious and cultural tensions are made worse by the grandiose feeling that my nation, my religion and my culture are the most important in the world – hence my interests should come before the interests of anyone else, or of humankind as a whole. How can we make nations, religions and cultures a bit more realistic and modest about their true place in the world?

No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other animals – because the relationship between humans and animals is the best model we have for future relations between superhumans and humans.