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Tuesday, 17 October 2006

Future Man


Last week, the New Scientist looked a world without man. This week, Dr Oliver Curry, of the Darwin@LSE research centre at the London School of Economics looks at what man will be like if he manages to remain on Earth. According to Dr. Curry, by the year 3000 the average man will be a 6 ft 6 in giant with brown skin and features tuned perfectly to attract the opposite sex. Of course, by year 10,000 it all goes to Hell as man starts to resemble a large-domed Woody Allen and by 100,000 AD the Morlocks start showing up.

Mind you,this sort of thing changes with the fashions as much as hem lines and tie widths, as we can see here.

Personally, I'm still with G. K. Chesterton on this one.
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