Why do you think I.T. is particularly safe from A.I. automation?

"Does this also mean we will have AI in 20 years too? Wow..."

This is pretty much a 'God of the gaps' deal. They don't have any positive evidence for these theories. What they do have are some erroneous semantic arguments about various human cognitive abilities being impossible for a classical machine to perform, and thus feel compelled to push those abilities into unknown areas…

Penrose is a physicist - so quantum physics is well within is purview.

What makes traveling really fast = future?

This isn't a story for goodness sakes, it's Brian Cox stating an extremely basic fact of special relativity. He's not making a "claim", this has been a very well-known and well-established fact of physics for more than a century. Get a clue, Jesus...

So back to square one; you seriously question whether cultures change..? Evolution does not mean 'directed' evolution, and you can be sure that that's not what Attenborough meant, given his highly critical comments of our culture.

Did you... actually read the stuff you just copied and pasted? It's talking about modern studies of cultural evolution discounting archaic, "colonialist" theories of cultural evolution:

He was never quoted as actually saying that we've "stopped evolving physically and genetically". That's The Guardian trying to paraphrase what he said about natural selection, which is of course not the same thing as evolution.

Think of all the life in there

Why do the galaxies appear to be vaguely radially orientated? As if there's a kind of fish eye distortion to the picture.

That may well be true, but it honestly had nothing to do with this conversation.

No, he doesn't. It's still common academic parlance. Equating it with phrenology clearly demonstrated some kind of confusion you have about the term, and you've now reverted to the rather transparent and clichéd back-pedalling above.

Again, I doubt he literally means 0. His specific point is perfectly correct. He even provides a quantitative measure of what he's referring to. Namely that we have hugely reduced the degree to which natural selection occurs, as we now have the medical ability to intervene and rear 90-95% (he doesn't say 100%) of…

I agree that most wouldn't claim it had "stopped", but I doubt that was Attenborough's opinion either. I was talking about it being slow. I didn't call anything a consensus.

Right, cos cultures actually stay the same forever.

China's one-child policy means fewer mouths but also fewer minds,

Was this supposed to impress people?

None of you nerds understands or is bothered to understand what Attenborough is saying.

I don't think it's change in itself that's scaring him. I think it's more likely all of the overpopulation, environmental destruction, and mass extinctions of species he's witnessed, as the most travelled human on the planet.