The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon

Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by jamespitts on Sunday January 31, 2016 @01:52PM (#11007439)

Thinking on it, I do hope that the current global lifestyle of productivity, consumerism, and reproduction can be wrought into something truly sustainable. Science and technology will help with this, but then again the same could create new forms of resource-intensive consumerism.

Without changes in how people live, a star trek economy, or large numbers of people choosing to not reproduce, we might over-convert the Earth's resources into finished components of our inane, evolution-driven desires.

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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by seanp2k2 on Monday February 01, 2016 @01:50AM (#11010219)

Is the end goal with all of this that humanity continues forever? If not, what is the desired far-future outcome?

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Re:The Scariest, Most Boring Armageddon by jamespitts on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @12:07PM (#11020696)

I say the long goal is "interesting things", but doing so while minimizing destruction.

Perhaps a far-future goal could involve evolving our minds and activities beyond our evolutionary orientation, yet still be able to somehow retain them to respect our history, or just our strange beauty?

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