If all 6 billion of us had an IQ of 200 that would fall under the category of an extendable method achievable through improved reproduction - I'm not arguing reproduction is the method we should use - since the net intelligence of our collective mind would dramatically improve. I don't think you guys realize properly that there ALREADY exists a high level intelligence, it is our collective one, where every single one of us plays a role similar to a neuron.

It's easy to see if you realize that you yourself are basically the collective mind of all your billions of neurons. The next logical step is for our collective mind to develop self-awareness but that can only happen through us developing it at the same time (expanding our self perception to encompass more than just our current body) since our consciousness is a hologram of the collective consciousness (I wonder if this is related to Stuart Hammeroff's gamma quantum consciousness theory).

How all these clever guys keep ignoring this simple observation is beyond me. Oh, and by the way, read I am You by Daniel Kolak and try getting him to the SS 2010. If we play our cards correctly we could have the Techno-Spiritual Singularity started in 2012, and that would be very romantic, imho :P