And by utilizing the memes, we have shaped our physical environment in such a way as to augment ourselves. We do not use the stick so much as a tool, but as an extension of ourselves. When we put on clothes, we do so in order to unite with them on some level. When we drive a car, it becomes a part of ourselves, an extension and an extender of our abilities. Biotechnology, nanotechnology, and machine intelligence allow us to affect the genome, to augment ourselves directly, to transform the memes into the substance of our own bodies.
Biotechnology is the direct manipulation of our genes.
We will be able to work at the scale of the molecular, able to build with foresight the things that ribosomes and the like build according to the blind and largely unvarying code of genetics. The bodies will be the product of genetic manipulation, designed to fit our needs with precision. And our cities, our living spaces, will be built via nanotechnology to be extensions and extendors of ourselves, not merely places in which we live. Our world will be transformed into a single living, intelligent organism. The walls will be alive with thought, as swarms of nanomolecular assemblers flow from them into the spaces beyond.