As an object, the body can be amplified and accelerated, attaining planetary escape velocity. The body is neither a very efficient nor a very durable structure. It might be the height of technological folly to consider the body obsolete in form and function yet it might the highest of human realizations. For it is only when the body becomes aware of its present position that it can map its post-evolutionary strategies. We are at the end of philosophy and human physiology.
Human thought recedes into the human past.
Once technology provides each person with the potential to progress individually in its development, the cohesiveness of the species is no longer important. The body must burst from its biological, cultural and planetary containment. The first sign of an alien intelligence may well come from this planet. The solution to modifying the body is not to be found in its internal structure, but lies simply on its surface. The significant event in our evolutionary history was a change in the mode of locomotion.