A very correct assessment. Even the most ardent freethinkers revert to tribal tendencies everyday. For example, we (for the most part) prefer family members and relatives first when making moral and financial choices.
The most important is accepting that and remembering our tribal tendencies, because it will probably take thousands of years of evolution to breed some that tribalism out. Or genetic modification...
I'm thinking it will be genetic modification combined with technological augmentation.
Yup, but there is a lot of resistance to genetically modifying humans right now (people have issues with genetically modified plants already). I wouldn't bet on widespread genetic modification in humans in this century.
There might be some Luddite pushback, that's true. I also think exponential changes will be quite interesting to adjust to. We may see things we've never seen before, including wide acceptance of new concepts, if they bring valued change. The generations growing up now have always had technology. Previous ones didn't even have the Internet.
I see you made the a-hole's downvote list. What'd you do to set them off? I wonder if someone will do an auto-upvote to counter the downvotes.
True, but no one opposed the Internet and called for outright bans on it. It's actually kind of funny that the article you wrote is about tribalism - and here we are, huddled around our online campfires talking about genetic modification and technological augmentation when in reality the majority of people oppose such technologies (for example, almost everyone in my family oppose GMOs).