I – If humanity is to endure it must continue to advance its capabilities to collect, use, integrate, contextualize, create, and transmit information.

II – The rate of technological and societal advancement humanity is experiencing is increasing at an exponential rate.

III – As humanity’s technologies and societies advance, the complexity of said technology and society necessarily increases.

IV – As the complexity of its technologies and societies increase, humanity’s ability to collect, use, integrate, contextualize, create, and transmit information must also increase.

V – These required increases of ability will come from education, technology, and evolution.

VI – Evolution via natural selection is a slow process.

VII – The mechanisms of evolution via natural selection will not be rapid enough to pace with the demands of the increasing complexity of humanity’s technology and society.

VIII – In order to keep pace with the demands of increasing complexity, humanity will need to develop voluntary, ethical pathways of guided adaptation along with integrating technology and education to accelerate its adaptive capacity beyond the limits of natural selection.