i'm not a gamer i just saw this from across the room and recognized mazzy star something about the apocalyptic theme that has quite a bit of appeal (admittedly i enjoy watching the walking dead) i have faith in humanity
not the violence of the handful in power
I have faith in a very small number of individuals, but pretty much none in the human species.
Peter Diamandis is the founder and chair of the X Prize Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is simply "to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity."
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Oct 21, 2013 - 1:11pm
miamizsun wrote:
i'm not a gamer i just saw this from across the room and recognized mazzy star
something about the apocalyptic theme that has quite a bit of appeal (admittedly i enjoy watching the walking dead)
i have faith in humanity just not the violence of the handful in power
I am an optimist that Homo Sapiens will be around. But I think we are currently populated far beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of Earth and may not appreciate, as individuals, what the planet's self-correcting actions may be. Who knows what technology will be able to do to mitigate this, not to mention actions we humans could deliberately take. On the last point I am not an optimist.
It'll certainly reach some peak - when the food runs out. Doubtless while that little hiccup is being sorted out Mother Nature, with a little help from mankind, will enact the mother of all down-sizing procedures.
Anything that can rid itself of millions of years of dinosaurs in the blink of a geological eye is something to be respected. The Yellowstone caldera is due. That might cancel a couple cocktail parties.
I suspect humanity will become like a Borg collective. First we will plug into a communal communications system like the Internet. Then our individual identities will begin to merge as public education systems become defunct and the government programs all the heart out of us. Then we'll invent robot technology that basically turns us into cyborgs as our mentalities challenge failing biology and lifespans become absurdly long. Finally we'll reach out to the stars, and being very much like viruses without any morality beyond ourselves, infect other worlds, consuming technology and resources. In effect, we will become the evil aliens we've always loved in the science fiction stories.
I don't believe I've heard that novel a proposition before. Truly interesting and thought provoking. In one aspect re-mindful of Dune, using the spice to navigate, with an organic creature plugged into a machine to navigate space.
