Turn out the lights, the party's over:
We've invented penicillin, space shuttles, computers and even artificial hearts, among many other wonders. So where will human intelligence go from here?
The answer, if certain scientists are correct, is nowhere.
Mankind's brain power has reached its peak and it is physically impossible for us to become any smarter, they say.
And it gets even worse. The reason we may have reached the limit, these scientists say, is that to improve the human brain would need vast amounts of extra energy and oxygen that simply aren't available. And over time, to reduce the amount of energy consumed, the brain could reduce in size back to something resembling the one of our Neanderthal ancestors.
Guess my plan to get frozen and then thaw out when all the problems have been solved is looking like a bad strategy.
