Think humans will be part of the next mass extinction if there is one? (1 Viewer)

[Danny R]

By 1,000 years the planet can be devoid of all carbon life forms unless the silicon,metal based life forms retreat to the moon and other near earth satelites they construct and keep Earth as a zoo for their amusement and curiosity.

Just to throw a wrench in your plans... if ever AI capability comes to exist in machines, I for one will be part of it. I expect the human/computer interface to be developed alongside smarter computers, so that human consciousness can be expanded into machine.

As I said before, homo-superior will rule the earth.

 

[Bob McLaughlin]

The human race is so much more dependent on other humans than it used to be. Just look around you: every item you see was probably as a result of several thousand other humans' efforts. This is a great strength, but biologically speaking it could be seen as a great weakness. If things start going haywire and society crumbles, many people simply don't have the knowledge and aggressiveness required to survive.

 

[Max Leung]

Consider bees and ants, Bob...ants and termites are considered the most successful species on the planet, and they got where they are today by being completely cooperative within their colony.

If humans were just as cooperative, there would be no "great weakness". As it stands, humans' limited tribal nature is not very promising for their long-term survival, although I'd say it has been "good enough" to reach current population levels.

 

[Ashley Seymour]

As I said before, homo-superior will rule the earth.
Unless someone programs a virus into the AI-homo-superior interface and delets the homo-superior half of the syompiotic life form.
ants and termites are considered the most successful species on the planet, and they got where they are today by being completely cooperative within their colony.
Max, have the ants, bees, and cockroaches spoken up and credited their socialistic nature to their success?
As it stands, humans' limited tribal nature is not very promising for their long-term survival, although I'd say it has been "good enough" to reach current population levels. [/B
Our tribal nature doesn't seem to have reared it's ugly population controlling head and reversed an rather successful run on homo-sapiens.
The biggest risk to humanity recently has been nuclear and then biohazardous materials. But even if these were unleashed, I am not certain that the effect on population would be much more than to reduce absolute levels, and slow the natural growth rate for a few generations, or hundred years.
The fears that cutting down the forests, or that we will fun out of oil will bring the demise of humans is not well promulgated. The growth of computer technology over the next several hundred years will bring about the exponential decrease in the consumption of energy.
In fact, a hazard more threatening than nuclear or biological will be the targeting of our computer based systems. Take away computer from our modern world, and the disruption would make the great depression look like full employment prosperity. Humans are now so hooked on computers, than taking them away has become the greatest threat to our existence.

 

[Keith_R]

Personally my belief is that humans will cause our own mass extinction. If I could predict how it will happen I'd say it will probably be from a great war involving all the major countries in the world, with the weapons of today (nukes, chemical weapons) and the way things are right now (terrorism, fanatical people) I see this as a very possible thing that could happen :frowning: . If not that it will be something else we do