Nobody knows what the future holds, but it seems quite
likely that human life as we know it will be radically transformed within the
next few generations. Something has to give one way or another. I can imagine
one or more of the following scenarios coming to pass:
- The gap between the haves and the have-nots grows to a point where an oligarchic ruling class has control over virtually all the world's wealth, and everyone else becomes serfs in a feudalistic social order.
- A major economic or geo-political event or a cascading series of events leads to an anarchic dystopia or to the rise of quasi-Orwellian society.
- Climate change leads to radical alteration of the environment that makes the earth far less hospitable not only to human beings but many other species.
- We get our collective act together and avoid or mitigate all of the above.
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