What do you believe will be the next evolutionary step for the human race? I think it may follow this senario;the conscious inhabitants of this planet will be split into two species; humans and in their original and continuing bodies, and uploaded copies of dead humans. Add to that a third category, the independent minds built from the ground up by artificial intelligence programs. And perhaps a fourth; living, embodied humans in an extended condition of enhancement, plugged in (perhaps only some of the time) to the super-net.