Technological Limits

[exchemist]

I think that some people are way too optimistic about the future of humanity.

I'm not so optimistic.

Stephen Hawking, the world famous physicist and cosmologist, isn't very hopeful about the future of our planet. Thanks to dangers like climate change, epidemics, population growth and the problems it creates due to resource shortages and pollution and even direct hits by asteroid or comet, he believes we'll need to find a way to leave Earth in the next hundred years.

If we can't find a way to leave Earth, I think that in the long run we're doomed.

https://bestlifeonline.com/crazy-future-predictions/?nab=0&utm_referrer=https://www.google.com/

 

[paddoboy]

If we can't find a way to leave Earth, I think that in the long run we're doomed.

In the long run, everything is doomed. In around 3 billion years or so, our Sun will become a Red Giant, and engulf both Mercury and Venus, and if it hasn't engulfed Earth, we would still be a cinder anyway.
We may have by then established colonies on Mars, or one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter, or more then likley by that time, we will have gone extinct anyway.

 

[pluto2]

In the long run, everything is doomed. In around 3 billion years or so, our Sun will become a Red Giant, and engulf both Mercury and Venus, and if it hasn't engulfed Earth, we would still be a cinder anyway.
We may have by then established colonies on Mars, or one of the moons of Saturn or Jupiter, or more then likley by that time, we will have gone extinct anyway.

Our technology will surely progress but I think that our core level of humanity and empathy for each other will have devolved further than it already has.

And if World War 3 breaks out sometime in the future killing tons of people and destroying our infrastructure then the only technology left is probably going to be this:

https://www.quora.com/How-technologically-advanced-will-the-world-be-100-years-from-now

 

[origin]

Our technology will surely progress but I think that our core level of humanity and empathy for each other will have devolved further than it already has.

So you think humanity and empathy was more the norm in the past? That sure seems completely backwards to me! When we're these good old days you speak of?