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"Evolutionary success ... is going to absolutely require mobility on, at a minimum, an interplanetary scale. We either go or we die out."
- Richard Morgan
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| Alpha Plus | ||
| Intervening in the physical development of humans can result in enhancements. |
| "And now," Mr. Foster went on, "I'd like to show you some very interesting conditioning for the Alpha Plus intellectuals. We have a big batch of them on Rack 5. First Gallery level," he called to two boys who had started to go down to the ground floor. "They're round about Meter 9000," he explained. "You can't really do any useful intellectual conditioning till the foetuses have lost their tails." |
| Technovelgy from Brave New World,
by Aldous Huxley. Published by Unknown in 1932 Additional resources -
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See also this reference to special genetic tampering called E Therapy which can be done in adulthood, resulting in bubbleheads - from Philip K. Dick's 1965 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
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