Technology Could Save or Destroy Civilization This Century

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http://www.livescience.com/technology/0 ... uture.html

from what I have seen, most people say they give a damn, but do not, they are more into them selves with their lives then caring about the people and the world around them.
perhaps in a couple generations (if we have that much time left) they will wisen up,
if not, then, this is the end times for humanity.

the harder things get for survival and personal space the more people tend to be out for them selves so to help them survive, our mentality would have to drastically change.
and eventually we will run out of resources, we need to start working on drawing in resources from other places and teraforming new places to live, an egg can not grow into a chicken unless the chick in side once developed as much as it can reaches past its shell into the new world and embraces it.

this is what I see as most likely happening,
the radicalises in the middle east and other places and the religious factions that have not really changed in their mind set is most likely not going to change, most people will depend on greed for survival drawing down others like a ship that is sinking and they try to stay afloat by clinging on to other swimmers, many proclaiming that its the end of times and god is going to come and save them, eventually things will get so bad many if not most of our race will die off, but those that are wise enough and quick enough to survive will make a new start of things with a much better way of existing among our selves and our world, and eventually reach the stars, that is if we do not destroy everything as we make the change over, ya know, the spoiled brat that if he cant have it he does not want anyone else to have it as well type thing, nuke the world or send virus and plague to wipe it all out,
one of the harshest things many will have to deal with is in the end, their realizations that no god is coming to save them, their is no god, we only have our selves and our selves to blame, and our selves to fix the mess we made and make.

Last edited by aspergian_mutant on 02 Oct 2006, 10:15 am, edited 2 times in total.

I'm betting on 'destroy'.

There is an end to everything in life. As for what you said about GOD everyone is entitled to there own beliefs. We are the ones to blame for what has gone wrong and we are the ones who have to start fixing the problem.
Not the generations after us!!

Who knows what will happen? its a 50/50 thing in my opinion.

how many generations so far said the same thing yet have not "fixed" things?
are we going to keep blaming the ones in the past for what has not yet been fixed
and leaving what needs fixing now to be fixed by those yet to come like our forefathers done?

it would be nieve of us to say yes lets fix things now and expect it to be so with our track record as it stands as a race.

I did not say we had to fix the problem, I said we have to start to fix the problem. Its only when someone starts to fix something it gets fixed. It will not get fixed straight away, but over time with persistence things should start to change.

Technology doesn't destroy civilisations, people destroy civilisations...

Technology only gives them a bigger lever, or club.

And on the whole, I expect a collapse: unsustainable technology/population mix.

The disaffected few can be more effectively disruptive. The first terrorist dirty or nuclear bomb is surely only a matter of time.

Current levels of industrialisation are utterly fossil fuel based. It isn't at all clear that that can be undone while maintaining economic growth, never mind the consequences of the industrialisation of India and China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/n ... 330469.stm

Can technology allow for the environmentally safe burning of coal? Possible, but unlikely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4466040.stm

Yes that is probably unlikely. But solar power is a great option and that is Technology.

Solar power for houses & cars.

http://www.eere.energy.gov/RE/solar.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/solarcar/solarenergy.htm

I'm betting on destroy. When our current admistration has supporters who claim that god put an infinite supply of fossil fuels in the earth, and that using them as we please is our duty because thats how god intented it, I don't feel to good about our future.