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Eyesight will get worse over time now, but people can see better than ever... it's a bizarre contradiction.
Until you consider medicine and technology to be part of the aggregate evolutionary progress. In which case, we're racing ahead!
I don't think we see a return to traditional evolutionary pressure unless we get truly isolated populations again, coupled with a major global disaster. That, or people living in space.
I think there is a strong argument that we have been post human since we developed writing and that a 'person' encompasses more than just their meat sack. I was first introduced to this idea by the book Natural Born Cyborgs. You are taking a narrower view of the word evolution, but I'm not totally sure it's justified.