You can have a lot of fun imagining how HEPs (highly enhanced persons) would interact with MOSHes (Mostly Original Substrate Humans), especially if the MOSHes didn’t understand the nature of the interaction. Olaf Stapledon wrote an excellent short novel on that theme back in the 1930′s:
John is a feral child who needs to figure out what he’s doing by himself.
In the real world, there would be at least efforts to have some rules for how HEPs and MOSHes interact, even if those rules can’t be enforced reliably.
We don’t have exactly any HEPs around now that I know of. The first ones may live in something analogous to a state of nature, however, until new social norms emerge to regulate their behavior.
You can have a lot of fun imagining how HEPs (highly enhanced persons) would interact with MOSHes (Mostly Original Substrate Humans), especially if the MOSHes didn’t understand the nature of the interaction. Olaf Stapledon wrote an excellent short novel on that theme back in the 1930′s:
Odd John:
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601111h.html
The HEP character as a boy, John Wainwright, for example makes a MOSH boy fall in love with him in a homosexual way, just as an experiment.
John is a feral child who needs to figure out what he’s doing by himself.
In the real world, there would be at least efforts to have some rules for how HEPs and MOSHes interact, even if those rules can’t be enforced reliably.
We don’t have exactly any HEPs around now that I know of. The first ones may live in something analogous to a state of nature, however, until new social norms emerge to regulate their behavior.