Humans 100,00 A.D.

[rug]

By Parmy Olson | Forbes – 3 hrs ago

Designer Lamm's depiction of how the human face might look in 100,000 years; Image credit Nickolay Lamm

We've come along way looks-wise from our homo sapien ancestors. Between 800,000 and 200,000 years ago, for instance, rapid changes in Earth climate coincided with a tripling in the size of the human brain and skull, leading to a flattening of the face. But how might the physiological features of human beings change in the future, especially as new, wearable technology like Google Glass change the way we use our bodies and faces? Artist and researcher Nickolay Lamm has partnered with a computational geneticist to research and illustrate what we might look like 20,000 years in the future, as well as 60,000 years and 100,000 years out. His full, eye-popping illustrations are at the bottom of this post.

Lamm says this is "one possible timeline," where, thanks to zygotic genome engineering technology, our future selves would have the ability to control human biology and human evolution in much the same way we control electrons today.

Lamm speaks of "wresting control" of the human form from natural evolution and bending human biology to suit our needs. The illustrations were inspired by conversations with Dr. Alan Kwan, who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University.

http://news.yahoo.com/human-face-might-look-100-171207969.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. That's not going to make the fans of facial profiling happy.

[rug]

2. We'll all have chips embedded in our ass by then so it won't matter.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Wait. You mean I don't already have a chip in my ass ?

Or is that on my shoulder ? I'm so confused.

[rug]

5. Sorry, that's only a hemorrhoid.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Lucky for me ... never had one of those.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Looks like that creepy kitsch art from the 60s

[rug]

6. I was thinking of the Olsen twins.

[hedgehog]

8. And mothers will deliver those big headed babies, how?

[rug]

9. Perhaps their hips will evolve as well.

A world of wide-eyed, wide-hipped humans.

[pink-o]

10. Geez, I cudda pushed one out when I was younger!

I used to have a 26" waist and 40" hips before the estrogen left me haggard. Now I'm just straight up and down: 27/37. I hated how I looked; never knew I was just evolved for the future!!

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. 27/37?

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[struggle4progress]

11. I been tryin to figgure out how old I'll be then. Y'know, carry the two, multiply by five,

take the square root, add pie -- all that stuff. So I could figgure out how many birthday candles to buy, y'know

And the answer comed out negative! The only possble explination is that there will be an overflow in the universal time register before then. I think mebbe I might could oughta write it up and send it on to the Zeitschrift für Physik, cuz I don't think nobody has discovered it before

[NV Whino]

13. Gods, no!

We'll all look like David Duchovny.