Originally Posted by Roody
I have to dismiss space colonization and designed trans-humans as possibilities for two reasons.
First and foremost, these solutions are still in the dream stage, and we don't seem to have the time to fool around with dreams at this point. Second, even if we do transcend our current existence, if we don't "grow up" (as patc eloquently said), we will be doomed to repeat the current mistakes: If we migrate to another world, we'll mess that one up also; if we redesign our bodies, our juvenile minds will continue to get us into deadly trouble.
If the human condition is as depressing and doomed for failure as you believe, then that's more reason why we ought to build better humans. I, for one, will welcome our biologically,- intellectually- and technologically-superior overlords!