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Octugen
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What will be our Future and Fate during our time and or beyond that? Will we become strong and intellectual beings, will we be creating wonders in technology and exploring the many aspects of the universe?
Will we wage another war which society will crumble? Will a natural disaster consume all life on Earth? Or will Alien-Facehumping zombies eat our brains? I'd like to hear your opinions.

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Tibbers
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Well we're definitely develop new advances in technology. Natural disasters are on the rise so we'll probably get hit by a few of those. And as for wars... well there's always a war going on somewhere, and there always will be.

On a side note, the alien-facehumping zombies would be cool. :P

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I think our scientific advances will make life so easy for us, that we won't have to do much to complete a job. Eventually, people won't need anything else. When that happens, inventions won't be made anymore. I think this (1950-2350) might be our peak of scientific advances.

SirNoobalot
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if humanity manages to survives itself, nature, and disease, i think humanity has a lot of potential towards the future. the rapid age of technologial advancement right now proves it....

FinnDragon
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I think that technology rises hugly, but if global worming cant get stopped humans must aband Earth and colosity another planet.

EnterOrion
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but if global worming cant get stopped humans must aband Earth and colosity another planet.


If global warming is stopped, we'll run out of places to plant food.

Those places up north? Great farmland, when it doesn't have permafrost.

As for our future, I don't know. I don't know what magic technology we'll have in the future. And quite frankly, I don't care. I live to serve the present, not the future. That's other peoples business, not mine.
Kevin4762
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EnterOrion does have a point, why should I care about future generations? Let them make the same mistakes we have and let them fix those mistakes just like us.

AnaLoGMunKy
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That's other peoples business, not mine.


Thats not true and you are mearly sidestepping a current problem. Pull your head out the sand please.
Kyouzou
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We should worry about it, because like it or not this is going to affect people. Maybe not us, but the people in other countries will definitely be affected by it.

I believe we will have rapid advances in technology, but at the same time new problems will arise that makes us push our selves.

Dragonz5
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In the last century we invented planes, cars, computers, space flight, tv, etc. So I think the technological inventions will continue. But eventually, be it millions of years, hundreds of years, whatever, something will happen, of are own doing, of nature's doing, or yes maybe of the Alien- Facehumping zomies' doing that will cause us to go extinct. And if the sun doesnt blow up by then (and we probably wount last long enough for that to already have happened) we will evolve or be replaced by something else.

Kevin4762
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It appears people didn't read this.

I think our scientific advances will make life so easy for us, that we won't have to do much to complete a job. Eventually, people won't need anything else. When that happens, inventions won't be made anymore. I think this (1950-2350) might be our peak of scientific advances.


Don't you guys even think this is possible?
Octugen
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It seems very possible, we didn't say it isn't possible. But what about during our lifetime? Presuming "2010-2090"? Personally We've come a long way in such a short period of time, it seems anything is possible for the human race, we uh just.. need to learn from our mistakes more often...
Our end/extinction (In my opinion) isn't so near since we're very adaptable to our environment and our own society.

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Honestly I don't think we are going anywhere any time soon. With our continued advances in science and our overwhelming drive to dominate I think we are here to stay. I see only a few likely scenarios causing our demise.

1. Our environment changes (either naturally or from our own doing) so much that we are forced to evolve. After 500-1000 generations humans have become a new species.

2. Wars decimate our population and we lose much of our technological capabilities, knocking us down a few pegs on the food chain and humans are not the same that we are now, as we are forced to evolve into a more hardy and physically powerful race.

3. Either from nuclear weapons or our use of nuclear energy some form of radiation causes mutations of us and our environs, driving us to the brink of extinction, or eliminating us altogether.

4. We continue to evolve and make great advances in sciences and eventually begin colonizing space, at first near earth via terraforming and/or structures on foreign bodies which permit us to live and grow foods.

5. Our world is destroyed before we can get off this rock, either through our own means or celestial intervention (death of our star, collision with some celestial body)

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I think our scientific advances will make life so easy for us, that we won't have to do much to complete a job.


The industrial revolution, the creation of the production line, and the eventual boom of the computer were all thought to do precisely this. What happened?

The developed world became increasingly workaholic. Why do you think kids aren't even being raised anymore?

The above proposition will never happen because of a simple driving force: competition. There will never be less work when there is more competition.

4. We continue to evolve and make great advances in sciences and eventually begin colonizing space, at first near earth via terraforming and/or structures on foreign bodies which permit us to live and grow foods.


I suggest this is the most probable outcome in which humanity actually survives, great sudden calamity notwithstanding. It's the only real outcome in which the overriding themes of humanity, as revealed through history, are observed.

This also means that it will only happen after it becomes clear as a whole that this measure needs to be taken urgently. Humanity never adopted measures necessary for its survival ahead of time.
MRWalker82
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Humanity never adopted measures necessary for its survival ahead of time.


This is extremely true. We don't do great things (typically, with some exceptions) because we want to, we do them because we have to. And given our track record I think we will definitely need to move on to other habitats if we are to continue to survive as a species.
Strop
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If global warming is stopped, we'll run out of places to plant food.

Those places up north? Great farmland, when it doesn't have permafrost.


Please enrol in a subject that at least provides the basics of climate models and how climate interacts with environment, because this is one of the most misguided statements I have ever seen on these forums.

I live to serve the present, not the future. That's other peoples business, not mine.


You know, I see people getting annoyed at phrases like this. But surveys show that the age group of people who are most likely to state that they care about the environment are the ones who do the least about it, because they are the ones who have been raised dependent on the very things that they speak out against. The statement I have just quoted is the honest, unabashed anthem of Generation-Y in all its mollycoddled self-centeredness, and as much as its predecessors (and more proactive contemporaries) complain about it, one has to wonder how an entire generation of people turned out this way.

And given our track record I think we will definitely need to move on to other habitats if we are to continue to survive as a species.


I'm Australian, which explains a lot about my commentary on this issue
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