Homo Conspirans: The Humans Who Come After Us

If every one of Elon Musk's dreams comes true, Homo sapiens will not be the last human species. AI, rockets, brain chips and robots will push our evolution in one or two generations. Each of the 27 parts stands on its own and predicts one change in the human body, mind or society.

  1. Part 1 · Homo Sapiens Will End in Musk's AI Age, and Homo Conspirans Will Begin: The Next Stage of Human Evolution
  2. Part 2 · AI Will Wire 8 Billion Brains Into One Superorganism, Like an Ant Colony: The Global Brain (coming Oct. 28)
  3. Part 3 · Children Raised by AI on Musk's Mars Will Evolve Bodies That Can Never Return to Earth: How Humans Would Evolve on Mars (coming Oct. 29)
  4. Part 4 · When AI Robot Bodies Become Free, People Who Keep Mortal Bodies Will Become a Minority: Galaxy Express 999 (coming Oct. 30)
  5. Part 5 · AI Will Reverse Human Aging, Even If Musk Says We Need Death: Reverse Aging (coming Oct. 31)
  6. Part 6 · Humans Who Hand Their Thinking to AI Will See Their Brains Shrink Again, Like 3,000 Years Ago: Is AI Making Us Dumber (coming Nov. 1)
  7. Part 7 · When Artificial Wombs and AI Take Over Birth, Human Evolution Will Start With the Pelvis: Artificial Wombs (coming Nov. 2)
  8. Part 8 · Humans With Musk's AI Brain Chips Will Evolve to See Infrared: Neuralink Blindsight (coming Nov. 3)
  9. Part 9 · Musk's "Seed of Civilization" Will Be Stored in AI and Buried on the Moon First: The Doomsday Vault (coming Nov. 4)
  10. Part 10 · Living With AI, Humans Will Domesticate Themselves Again and Become a Tamer Species: Human Self-Domestication (coming Nov. 5)
  11. Part 11 · Musk's AI Space Reactors Will Take Humanity to the Brink of Nuclear War: Nuclear Reactors in Space (coming Nov. 6)
  12. Part 12 · AI Will Split Humanity Into Two Civilizations That Can't Understand Each Other, American and Chinese: The DeepSeek Shock (coming Nov. 7)
  13. Part 13 · Humanity Will Sign a New Social Contract With Musk's AI Companies Instead of Nations: The End of the Social Contract (coming Nov. 8)
  14. Part 14 · After the Weight-Loss Drug Musk Took, the Next Step Will Be an AI Brain Chip That Replaces Willpower: The Ozempic Effect (coming Nov. 9)
  15. Part 15 · The Mars Settlers Musk's AI Picks Will All Carry the Gene That Can't Stop: The Explorer Gene (coming Nov. 10)
  16. Part 16 · Frogs Jump Out of Boiling Water, but Humanity Won't Leave AI's Warm Bath: Boiling Frog Syndrome (coming Nov. 11)
  17. Part 17 · Musk's AI Solar Empire Will Lift Humanity to a Type I Civilization: The Kardashev Scale (coming Nov. 12)
  18. Part 18 · Musk's Starlink Will Erase the Last Human on Earth Not Connected to AI: Starlink Direct to Cell (coming Nov. 13)
  19. Part 19 · After Albania's AI Minister, Musk's Dream of AI Government Comes Next: Diella (coming Nov. 14)
  20. Part 20 · Everyone Who Takes Free AI Will Try to Repay Musk: The Price of Free Grok (coming Nov. 15)
  21. Part 21 · Even as Population Collapses, Musk Will Multiply the "Number of Consciousnesses" With AI: Population Collapse (coming Nov. 16)
  22. Part 22 · When AI Makes Things Free, People Will Compare Themselves Even More Fiercely: The Status Game (coming Nov. 17)
  23. Part 23 · Access to AI Will Become the Next Human Right After Water and Power: Is Internet Access a Human Right (coming Nov. 18)
  24. Part 24 · Children Raised in AI Abundance Will Evolve Bodies That Never Knew Hunger: The Thrifty Gene (coming Nov. 19)
  25. Part 25 · At AI Funerals, the Dead Mother Will Answer the Mourners' Questions: Talking to Dead Loved Ones With AI (coming Nov. 20)
  26. Part 26 · Behind Your AI Assistant Will Be a Worker Paid $2 an Hour: AI Data Labelers (coming Nov. 21)
  27. Part 27 · Children of the AI Age Won't Introduce Themselves by Their Jobs: What Will Humans Do When AI Takes All Jobs (coming Nov. 22)

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