>>12103697>How will society cope with increased specializationIt won't.
Our culture assumes convergent evolution.
Over time, we will all become one race, one culture, one everything.
Evolution always seems to be divergent in the big picture (no idea why, probably entropy or some shit).
Biology over time has a tree of life, not a funnel of life, economics over time has specialization of labor, not homogenization of labor, etc, etc.
The "beige horizon" and it's non racial analogues are completely ass-backwards.
Life started as one species, humanity started as one race, the economy started as one job, etc, and we have done nothing but diverge from this since.
The future will be more species, more races, more jobs, etc, and they will only keep getting more specialized.
The future is not one race - the human race - exploring the stars with one job - turning on the replicator - it will be human subspecies so biologically adapted to living in space that they can't even survive terrestrially without technology do space shit etc, interacting with various other post-human offshoots.
The emergence of "high functioning autism" is basically this happening right in front of our eyes.
These traits are highly heritable, comparable to hair color, eye color, etc.
They tend to cluster in the same kinds of jobs and hobbies, similar to geographic isolation.
People tend to meet partners at work or through hobbies, so like pairs with like, and the traits become more emphasized in a more localized subset of the population.
Suddenly bam, you've got a new "race" doing new jobs on top of all the currently existing races doing all the currently existing jobs, the complete opposite of the beige horizon meme.
