It still is (well, a nice, little, uncomplicated meta-language). Namespaces, XPATH, XSL, etc etc etc are not compulsory. But it's convenient to be able to mix-n-match other pre-written XML-based languages or transform one XML document into another (like DocBook-XML to RSS to XHTML).
Regarding the apes killing off some other species: humans and their works reach into pretty much the whole biosphere. There's no real way that any life form could drive another to extinction without Homo sapiens being in some way implicated.
There have been mass extinctions before and humans weren't around to be responsible. This time we're slaughtering the other life forms on the planet at a horrific rate. Since Europeans colonised Australia (I'm Australian), we've wiped out or nearly wiped out large numbers of unique marsupials (there are lots more kinds of marsupials than just koalas and red kangaroos). The settlers didn't always go hunting them as happened with the thylacine, but introduced foxes, cats and rabbits (as well as land clearing) did most of the damage.
Perhaps we should consider whether we are stewards of the planet, rather than masters or exploiters. Thylacines didn't have a chance to adapt: they were hunted by European settlers. There's also some possibility that they were susceptible to dog-borne diseases, analogous to American First Peoples or Australian Aborigines encountering smallpox for the first time.
But IQ isn't real - it's an artefact of tests that measure IQ (spot the circular reasoning!).
What matters is childhood health and nutrition, and parental support. These lead to "high IQs" - scholarly achievers. And it is the middle and upper classes that tend to produce children who do well at school (or in the professions).
If technology leads to a diminution of the middle class in the West, then the "high IQs" are going to be those who are left with decent nutrition, exercise and access to good education: the wealthy.
But then large middle classes are unusual, historically.
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...this nice little, uncomplicated language?
It still is (well, a nice, little, uncomplicated meta-language). Namespaces, XPATH, XSL, etc etc etc are not compulsory. But it's convenient to be able to mix-n-match other pre-written XML-based languages or transform one XML document into another (like DocBook-XML to RSS to XHTML).
Regarding the apes killing off some other species: humans and their works reach into pretty much the whole biosphere. There's no real way that any life form could drive another to extinction without Homo sapiens being in some way implicated.
There have been mass extinctions before and humans weren't around to be responsible. This time we're slaughtering the other life forms on the planet at a horrific rate. Since Europeans colonised Australia (I'm Australian), we've wiped out or nearly wiped out large numbers of unique marsupials (there are lots more kinds of marsupials than just koalas and red kangaroos). The settlers didn't always go hunting them as happened with the thylacine, but introduced foxes, cats and rabbits (as well as land clearing) did most of the damage.
Perhaps we should consider whether we are stewards of the planet, rather than masters or exploiters. Thylacines didn't have a chance to adapt: they were hunted by European settlers. There's also some possibility that they were susceptible to dog-borne diseases, analogous to American First Peoples or Australian Aborigines encountering smallpox for the first time.
But IQ isn't real - it's an artefact of tests that measure IQ (spot the circular reasoning!).
What matters is childhood health and nutrition, and parental support. These lead to "high IQs" - scholarly achievers. And it is the middle and upper classes that tend to produce children who do well at school (or in the professions).
If technology leads to a diminution of the middle class in the West, then the "high IQs" are going to be those who are left with decent nutrition, exercise and access to good education: the wealthy.
But then large middle classes are unusual, historically.