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Well, yes, of course it is, but what I meant that maybe it's now no longer a thing of the future (or the present) as well. Not for us, anyway. Because of our extremely advanced ability with tools, physically adapting our own bodies is no longer necessary. We can just make machines to do it for us. Throw in the fact that our natural enemies are as good as none, and the fact that untimely death is more or less random, and that almost no one dies before they're able to produce children, and mankind comes to a stand still. All the advancements are going to be in machines now, is what I predict.
For example, it took millions of years of evolution before anything was able to live in a radically new enviroment: dry land. Now, think of the moon. Few people thought it possible to reach the moon ages ago. After a few thousand years of civilization and 50 or so years of serious rocketry science, ta-da! And we didn't have to change one bit. If the fish society really wanted to send an explorer to the surface, they couldn't do it. If our society really wanted to send me up to the moon, it would only be a matter of money and a little time.
And now, I am not really so stupid that I think fish have or have had in the past anything resembling a society with goals other than eating and sex.
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