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   From: rex.may@comcast.net   
      
   in article 2sjcujF1l7inpU2@uni-berlin.de, Dirk Bruere at Neopax at   
   dirk@neopax.com wrote on 10/6/04 5:20 PM:   
      
   > Doug Freyburger wrote:   
   >   
   >> Ken Sisby wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> If people were really driven to the exotic the entire human   
   >>> race would be a pale brown colour.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On a scale of generation to generation that is happening   
   >> quickly.  It's just that generations are a couple of decades   
   >> so it is taking a very long time on a scale of human lifespans.   
   >>   
   >> It is only a century that air flight has been possible and   
   >> already many people move from continent to continent the way   
   >> people moved from town to town centuries ago.  It has only   
   >> been 3-4 centuries that travel became possible from continent   
   >> to continent on any larger scale than an occasional boat, and   
   >> already colonization has completely changed the face of   
   >> humankind and of human history.   
   >>   
   >> In under 5 centuries, nearly everyone will be a pale brown color.   
   >> Before, the travel times made that impossible.  Now the travel   
   >> times make it common.   
   >   
   > In less than 50 'race' will be a designer choice and the racial variations we   
   > have today will make us seem like identical twins compared to what's coming.   
   >   
   Hm.  In a way.  Have you read Stanislaw Lem?  One story in particular dealt   
   with self-modification physically.   
      
   And, there's a lot more to race than appearance.   
      
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