Bye hypothalamus?

I was searching for some information to write my paper on Heart of Darkness yesterday night when I came across this extremely interesting, mind-boggling, and creepy peice of information. According to the article, scientists predict that the hypothalamus will disapear from the human brain in 100,000 years. The hypothalamus is responsible for our most "primitive" emotions such as fear, anger, lust, greed, etc. Imagine us without that! We would be worse than animalistic, which many consider humans to be too superior for. We'd be thinking machines!! That's terrible. Now there are some other less prominent emotional centers in the brain, such as the amygdala. Will they vanish with the hypothalamus as they all function interdependently or will they learn to function idependently of the hypothalamus? Will our superior thinking capabilities find that emotions are nonbeneficial to our evolutionary advancement?

As I see it, there is no end in pessimistic prophecies to the doom of our civilization as we know it. Even though all the realistic dooms won't happen till many, many years into the future, it's creepy and weirdly appealing and addictive to ponder.