Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy and wealthy
and wise. --- Ben Franklin Everyone wants wisdom and wealth.
Nevertheless, our health often gives out before we achieve them.
To lengthen our lives, and improve our minds, in the future we
will need to change our our bodies and brains. To that end, we
first must consider how normal Darwinian evolution brought us to
where we are. Then we must imagine ways in which future
replacements for worn body parts might solve most problems of
failing health. We must then invent strategies to augment our
brains and gain greater wisdom. Eventually we will entirely
replace our brains -- using nanotechnology. Once delivered from
the limitations of biology, we will be able to decide the length
of our lives--with the option of immortality-- and choose among
other, unimagined capabilities as well. In such a future,
attaining wealth will not be a problem; the trouble will be in
controlling it. Obviously, such changes are difficult to
envision, and many thinkers stil