So after finally successfully breeding a monkey-human or human-monkey hybrid the next step would be to pimp humans with the found genes for intelligence. One must not forget that the key to understanding intelligence lies in the success of this endeavor, cause all genes for intelligence and human traits ( poor comparison) have to be found to succeed. Exactly the same as China is already doing vice versa. It may become possible in a very far future, but the more probable approach is to exchange the human DNA parts in humans with monkey DNA and see what happens. This could go immediate by any kind of wonder drug, but because this is a serious social network, let's forget about this actually still rather childish idea. Instead of improving gorillas, chimps, orangutans, bonobos and naked mole rats to make them more human, the humans get monkeyed and not the monkey humanized. One of the less widespread ideas is reverse engineering, the downgrading, or, appropriate to the terminology of the novels, downlifting, of humans to make hybrids. There are so many Sci-Fi ideas including apes, like the Planet of the apes' franchise, cartoon characters and many evil experiments. It won the Freedom of Speech Prize from the American Library Association.īrin serves on advisory committees dealing with subjects as diverse as national defense and homeland security, astronomy and space exploration, SETI, nanotechnology, and philanthropy.ĭavid appears frequently on TV, including 'The Universe' and on the History Channel's 'Life After People.'Īnd here we, no wrong sorry, here come the chimpanzees.

His non-fiction book - The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? - deals with secrecy in the modern world. Startide Rising won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel. A movie, directed by Kevin Costner, was loosely based on his post-apocalyptic novel, The Postman.

His ecological thriller, Earth, foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and near-future trends such as the World Wide Web. At least a dozen have been translated into more than twenty languages.Įxistence, his latest novel, offers an unusual scenario for first contact.

His novels have been New York Times Bestsellers, winning multiple Hugo, Nebula and other awards. David Brin is a scientist, speaker, and world-known author.

The Uplift War by David Brin