[VladRussian]

well, one of the way the situation may developed further is bifurcation of the human species into 2 species. One would continue into the ant colony style civilization and another is space bound. One of the natural dividers emerging now is "either one is an accessory to the computer(and all its consumer oriented entertainment) or the computer is an accessory(i.e. tool for further exploration and development) to the one", and that would become even more pronounced with further development of even more effective (ie. direct connection) human(brain) to machine interfaces.