The Greatest Problem: Biological and Civilizational Decoupling

When human civilization first emerged, humans were no different from animals. Then the accumulation of knowledge started, slow at first, accelerated near roughly 1600s. Several centuries after the Industrial Revolution, the world fully changed, with little to no exception for the better. However, there's a present threat that at some point, further develompent will be rendered impossible with human-only efforts. Maybe not right now, maybe not even soon, but it will.

To push the frontier of knowledge further, human first need to study. And the amount of material the human need to learn increases with the humanity's knowledge base. But human lifespan is limited, and the more time spent on studying, the less time spent on new discoveries. The further we progress, the harder it is to continue progressing. Humans are forced to specialize as to not be overwhelmed with amount of information they physically incapable of processing fast enough. I once heard a phrase, something like "Gauss was the last man ever to know math as a whole". Math, physics, chemistry, same splitting into narrow fields everywhere. But even this will only delay the problem, not resolve it. Can you imagine being required to study for 80 years learning what was already discovered before being able to meaningfully contribute to pushing the forntier further? Nobel Prize winner's average age is steadily increasing, by the way.

This was the first part of the problem, here's the second one: Homo sapiens sapiens is abso-fricking-lutely unadapted for existing in the civilization environment we have today. Changing of civilization far outpaces changing of human, and as a result, humans are stuffed with evolutionary mismatches like a toy with plush.

• You need to eat as much as you could and get fat while you can, it will save your life when there will be a period without food. So you want to eat, and you eat. And eat. And eat. The famine doesn't come, and so the fat stays, and you have obesity and related health problems. U suffer, lol.
• Sustaining civilization requires lot of work done sitting in front of computer, but your bones and muscles are designed for walking and running, not sitting. So u suffer, lol.
• And how about psychological tricks? Traditions were important part of transfering knowledge, repeating after the older is literally how learning first emerged. Unquestioning following was necessary when not doing so means new idea dies with the one who discovered it. Groupthink as well, if you disagree with everyone else in your tribe/family/collective, the most probable explanation is that you are wrong. Fast forward, and now we have totalitarian cults which makes people do stuff that leave us wondering "How could they be that delusional?" And if you are thinking "I would never fall for that", please don't be so sure. Know your weaknesses. Oh, and u suffer, or course.

And as the progress continues, the difference between environment huans evolved to live in and environment humans DO live in will only increase. At this point the only two solutions are either remove civilization (guaranteed mass deaths and dramatic drop in quality of life) or to modify and enhance the human body itself.

Oh, and also everything I was talking about applies to healthy huamns, not mentioning diseases and problems born out of evolution working on principle "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks", unironically.