Your children will live to see man merge with machines. But will it save or destroy us? | Mail Online

Your children will live to see man merge with machines. But will it save or destroy us? | Mail Online: "Last week, historian Ian Morris revealed how, at the end of the last Ice Age, a simple accident of geography gave the West the advantages that led to it dominating the world for the past two centuries.

His argument forces us to accept that our success was nothing to do with superior brains, leaders or culture – and that the East is on the brink of taking over.

That idea may be hard to get used to, but Morris says it will be easy compared with the astounding changes in technology and health that are just around the corner..."