The old mechanics of evolution are DEAD.

No natural selection.
No random mutation.
No.

Not anymore.

The new evolution stems from information, artificial intelligence,
and bioengineering.
And what is interesting here is that evolution now becomes an
individually centered process, emanating from the needs and desires
of the individual, and not an external process where the individual
is at the whim of collective evolutionary forces.
Bioengineering a human being with enhanced faculties of consciousness
is only the beginning of the new evolutionary cycle. As the next cycle
proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes until we reach an enormous and instantaneous fulfillment of human and neo-human potential.
(paraphrase of 'Waking Life')




..................................or until a cataclysmic system implosion.