Biotech is the Fourth Wave ... Nanotech and digital mind uploading will be the Fifth Wave.
Most people cannot simply grasp that there is a good change now that their young children could live for a millenium or more. The trick is staying alive until about 2075 or so.
Toffler?
As conscious humans increasingly understand nature man increasingly controls nature.
Controls or, when necessary, adapts... Adaptation, crudely speaking, is a form of control, only internal.