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[damocles]

If you want biological bottlenecks;

1. Oil shortage.
2. Potable water shortage.
3. Climate change.
4. Bio-diversity killoff(In progress as I write this due to human encroachment on habitat and alien cross species invasion of ecologies thanks to parasitical riders on aircraft and ships)

should be more than enough to guarantee a massive killoff of humans within the next few hundred years barring sensible species wide adaptation.

Once again the survivors will be the ones who are smart enough to anticipate and adapt their human behaviors to the changed conditions.

Those will be the ones who solve the heat pollution and the energy shortage problems.

True they might only contribute a small donation to the genetic pool.

But then again throughout the history of humanity it hasn't been that many of us who changed the fundamental way we do things.

Nor has it been proved that their specific children have substantially equaled their parents in intellectual achievement in human history.

On the other hand, the schmucks(me) seem to catch on quickly enough when one of these geniuses causes a paradigm shift in tool using and we adapt quickly. That is a sensible read on why schmucks continue to predominate?

You may be correct in pointing out that using calculators and computers make many of us(schmucks) lazy thinkers.*

On the other hand, I do not see it affecting you in the use of logic and example when you present your case.

*I blame public education more than I blame technology for inability to think. If you hire incompetent teachers, don't be surprised by the incompetently taught.