Re:Is There A Giant Life Form Lurking In Our Solar System? P...
by cabalamat on Thursday August 15, 2013 @01:01AM
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> The next 100 years in general will be very fun.
Unless they are not.
For example, we might get a total surveillance society, ruled by a tyranny that cannot be overthrown, because it controls everyone's use of information. We seem to be heading that way now.
Or a bad singularity that turns the solar system into paperclips.
Or one of those old favourites, nuclear war and ecological catastrophe.
It is not obvious to me that humans will still be around in 100 years. Which would be sad considering we may be the only sapient life in the universe.
Unless they are not.
For example, we might get a total surveillance society, ruled by a tyranny that cannot be overthrown, because it controls everyone's use of information. We seem to be heading that way now.
Or a bad singularity that turns the solar system into paperclips.
Or one of those old favourites, nuclear war and ecological catastrophe.
It is not obvious to me that humans will still be around in 100 years. Which would be sad considering we may be the only sapient life in the universe.