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Article Check - Future Highways: Three Possible Futures for the Human Race
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(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
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Then there is the much smaller set of possibilities in which homo sapiens become extinct. As much as this scenario is predicted and discussed among doomsdayers, the fact is we are a hard lot to kill. All it takes is a small pool of humans to survive and repopulate the gene pool. It is probable that in past ice ages our numbers dwindled dangerously low at times, but each time the ice receded and the archaeological evidence becomes rich with human expansion and development. It is important to emphasize, however, that when greater and greater lengths of time are considered, this remote possibility increases, until it reaches a point in the distant future when it becomes an absolute certainty. The only way to escape the certainty of our racial mortality is to move into the third highway of possible futures, transcendence.
Transcendence is a low-probability set of scenarios in which we acquire a form of civilization which can outlive our planet and any set of catastrophes which would eventually destroy us. This highly desirable future can take many forms, but all have several characteristics in common. All must be highly stable, but cannot be static or without ability to adapt and evolve. All must eventually take us away from a solar system which has a long but finite future. And any possible future in this category must allow us to develope a much higher state of mind and intelligence.
Following is an outline of all the possible futures I can envision and a few of their subsets.
Highway 1: Extinction (Highly unlikely, but becoming more probable over great lengths of time unless we find our way to Highway 3).
A. Extinction by Natural Event
(1) Climate Change Has to be catastrophically extreme to achieve total extinction.
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
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Then there is the much smaller set of possibilities in which homo sapiens become extinct. As much as this scenario is predicted and discussed among doomsdayers, the fact is we are a hard lot to kill. All it takes is a small pool of humans to survive and repopulate the gene pool. It is probable that in past ice ages our numbers dwindled dangerously low at times, but each time the ice receded and the archaeological evidence becomes rich with human expansion and development. It is important to emphasize, however, that when greater and greater lengths of time are considered, this remote possibility increases, until it reaches a point in the distant future when it becomes an absolute certainty. The only way to escape the certainty of our racial mortality is to move into the third highway of possible futures, transcendence.
Transcendence is a low-probability set of scenarios in which we acquire a form of civilization which can outlive our planet and any set of catastrophes which would eventually destroy us. This highly desirable future can take many forms, but all have several characteristics in common. All must be highly stable, but cannot be static or without ability to adapt and evolve. All must eventually take us away from a solar system which has a long but finite future. And any possible future in this category must allow us to develope a much higher state of mind and intelligence.
Following is an outline of all the possible futures I can envision and a few of their subsets.
Highway 1: Extinction (Highly unlikely, but becoming more probable over great lengths of time unless we find our way to Highway 3).
A. Extinction by Natural Event
(1) Climate Change Has to be catastrophically extreme to achieve total extinction.
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
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Transcendence is a low-probability set of scenarios in which we acquire a form of civilization which can outlive our planet and any set of catastrophes which would eventually destroy us. This highly desirable future can take many forms, but all have several characteristics in common. All must be highly stable, but cannot be static or without ability to adapt and evolve. All must eventually take us away from a solar system which has a long but finite future. And any possible future in this category must allow us to develope a much higher state of mind and intelligence.
Following is an outline of all the possible futures I can envision and a few of their subsets.
Highway 1: Extinction (Highly unlikely, but becoming more probable over great lengths of time unless we find our way to Highway 3).
A. Extinction by Natural Event
(1) Climate Change Has to be catastrophically extreme to achieve total extinction.
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
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Following is an outline of all the possible futures I can envision and a few of their subsets.
Highway 1: Extinction (Highly unlikely, but becoming more probable over great lengths of time unless we find our way to Highway 3).
A. Extinction by Natural Event
(1) Climate Change Has to be catastrophically extreme to achieve total extinction.
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
<Though online loans have increased tremendously the recent years, you can still apply for a loan through a bank like Bank of America, Washington Mutual, Chase or another. Most of the nationwide banks have branches in most cities so if you choose to apply for a bank loan from one of these banks in your area you are not likely to be exposed for fraud, neither ripped off or be scared that the bank will give your personal information to othersBe aware however, that interest rates and loan terms are not necessarily the best just because the lender is a bank. The way you handle this issue is to compare different loan offers from different banks - the more you compare the better - before you decide which bank lender you want to go with. So what exactly should I compare?If you have decided to take your loan from a bank perhaps the most important thing to compare is the service. How do you feel about the bank and the loan officers you are in contact with. Are they polite and friendly? Since you will have to deal with these people as your lender for quite a long time, it's important to feel that you can communicate with them.The next thing you should compare is the interest rates. Should you choose a fixed rate or a non-fixed rate loan? A fixed-rate loan will normally have a higher interest rate than a non-fixed-rate loan, but if the non-fixed doesn't have a ceilin
(2) Impact by asteroid or comet
(3) Change in Solar Output, resulting in an uninhabitable Earth.
(4) Disease or Catastrophic Pandemic
B. Extinction Through Man-Made Event
(1) Human-Induced Climate Change Once again this would have to be extreme.
(2) Nuclear Holocaust
(3) Man-Made Illness
(4) Unforeseeable Catastrophic technology Highway 2: Status Quo (This will inevitably deadend at Highway 1 given enough time, unless
a path to Highway 3 is found).
A. Repetitious Rises and Falls
B. Stable civilization held together by some unforeseen social science or social philosophy,
but falling short of the third highway. Highway 3: Transcendence (Highly desirable)
A. Interstellar Travel, maintaining our present physical form or biologically similar.
B. Transfer of ourselves to an artificial form, capable of surviving independent of our planet and sun.
C. Evolution, either natural or artificial, into a higher biological form able to devise new
and unforeseeable methods of survival.
Possibility 1 , Extinction by Natural Event. As I stated before, the possibility of extinction is extremely remote in the short term but dead certain in the long term without Transcendence. Of the two methods of extinction- man-made or natural- a natural event is much more likely to be the causative event. Excepting the biological or disease possibility, the amount of energy release required to wipe out 100% of the population is so enormous that until recently the human race could not have come close to matching it. Climate change by the natural cycles that shape our planet have long been thought to occur over long periods of time. Scientists are just now beginning to speculate that abrupt climate change, on an order that can reshape the world and in the span of fifty or a hundred years, is the norm and not the exception. To this author, this makes sense. I tend to side with the theories that massive climate change occurs when critical factors, such as ocean temperature and CO2 levels reach a certain point. I believe that when levels are reached in certain critical systems, chaotic effects rapidly escalate until a new equilibrium is reached: new average temperatures, new average rainfall, and different weather patterns. Is this enough to cause an extinction event? The fact is, many climate shifts have occurred since anatomically modern humans came into existence some 200,000 years ago. Enough survived to continue an adequate gene pool, and any shift we experience in the short-term we would likely survive again. Catastrophic climate changes, such as the one which is supposed to have occurred some 250 million years ago (it made the dinosaur event look like a picnic) are much rarer and their occurrence much more mysterious. It
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