Is there a future for mankind?

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Will we see out the century?
Will the human race survive this current cluster of crises? Will the wars and migrations end, and a lasting peace achieved?
Or will they escalate, coalesce and engulf the whole of civilization?
Will civilization as we know it survive? Or will a new a different one arise in its place?

[bobevenson]

There is no future for mankind. Life is now proceeding in the direction of solid state electronics. Welcome to the Solid State Convention, a religion for the Space Age.

[Impenitent]

future? I've always said that time is a conspiracy invented by the Swiss to sell watches

-Imp

[Arising_uk]

No, that's cuckoo clocks.

[Greta]

Will we see out the century? Will the human race survive this current cluster of crises? Will the wars and migrations end, and a lasting peace achieved?
Or will they escalate, coalesce and engulf the whole of civilization?
Will civilization as we know it survive? Or will a new a different one arise in its place?

It depends on "we".

If by "we" you mean "at least some of civilisation" then yes. Billionaires and their circle, should be fine. If you mean the poor and vulnerable, then no. I expect the world's population to be significantly lower by the end of the century. The Holocene extinction event currently in progress will surely claim numerous human lives as well as those of other species but few informed observers claim that humans will become extinct this century.

[Impenitent]

No, that's cuckoo clocks.

are birds that big a market? interesting...

-Imp

[Pluto]

The Holocene extinction event

Sounds serious.

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I don't think humans will become extinct, but I also can't see an international cabal of billionaires maintaining a civilization. Presumably, they would be attended by a much younger and more physically robust retinue of servants, medical personnel, handymen, bodyguards, food-producers and technicians. All of those people are more competent to carry on functioning when their bosses die off. But the $billions will have disappeared along with the coastal cities and fertile plains. It will be a whole new ball-game.

[Dalek Prime]

Yes, and it's best served in the rubbish heap of failures, climbing over the bodies of their species in their quest for dominance.

[Skip]

Sounds like fun. Too bad I'll miss it.