Next 100 YEARS

Stephen Hawking has warned that humanity is in danger of destroying itself in the next 100 years as we rapidly progress in the realms of science and technology.

Speaking to the BBC, he said that while progress was good, it creates “new ways things can go wrong.” He highlighted nuclear war, global warming, and genetically engineered viruses as possible harbingers of doom of our own creation.

This is not the first time Hawking has warned that we face a self-made disaster. In 2014, he said that artificial intelligence could “spell the end of the human race.”

Hawking pointed out that he is ultimately an optimist, and he believes we can overcome the problems that could face humanity. But if the worst were to happen, one way we could ensure the survival of the human race is to have a colony on another planet, such as Mars.

This is unlikely to be a reality in at least the next century, though. Suggesting that a global disaster was a “near certainty” in the next thousand to ten thousand years, Hawking therefore said that the next 100 years are our most dangerous, as we become much more advanced but without a safe haven off this planet.

“Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” he said. “However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period.”

Nonetheless, Hawking said this was a “glorious time to be alive” for scientists, specifically theoretical physicists like himself, with countless new discoveries waiting to be made.

Hawking was speaking to the Radio Times ahead of his Reith Lecture on black holes, which will be aired on BBC Radio 4 in the U.K. at 9 a.m. GMT on January 26 and February 2. International audiences can listen in on the BBC World Service on the same days at 10:06 a.m. EST (3:06 p.m. GMT).

Hawking’s latest theory on black holes, published in a paper earlier this month, is that they could contain “hairs” at their event horizon — the boundary beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape. These hairs could contain information about the black hole, and help resolve the “information loss” paradox.

 

Was waiting for the part where it says, "Send this to 20 of your friends within the next 10 minutes or else you'll see a dead NPC by 12 PM under your bed and you'll die miserably".

 

Seems interesting, interested in moving this into debates? @Amunhra

 

Bro why you gone and kill my high for? Shit now im paranoid af..... Again.... Cause this is like the 10th copy and paste ive seen since 2014. Now i gotta smoke some more. Thanks bro.

 

AH man i dont care rlly. i can t live 180 years,if now i m 80 already! i will be on heaven before of u, so keep in mind dont even dare to ask for items or else.

 

We'll all get to die sometime and hopefully, we never get to see this type of ending. As it is more painful seeing your love ones die than dying ahead of them.

I don't see the connection of the topic to asking for items?

 

u not? is like i will be already on the heaven, max cap, and u will come after these 100 years u will beg on me.......

 

Again please? You're not making any sense sire.

 

well maybe no sense for u!

 

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LOL! Still doesn't make any sense.

 

USE 3D GLASSES !

 

you care about omegas

 

are you sure you go in heaven?? or in hell?? hahahaha jk jk nyerk nyerk
give me your items if your going to die xD

 

heaven and hell dont have item they got to kill you in hell in 10000000000000000000000000 time's and heaven you stay peaceful place u even meet

 

what if........

 

Okaaaaaaaay. 1 Like = 1 Prayer

 

Well back to the main topic, yes Im sure you all are shocked to see me Beastie, actually UNderailing(rerailing?) a thread, but here I am doing so.

It seems that the point Hawking is trying to make is that it is a great time to be alive for both scientists and us normies with our peasant brains with inreasing technology and advances in everything, but that we do need to be careful. Let's run a lot of tests before we start screwing around with the crazy shit and FFS do NOT make advanced time traveling nearly indestructible killer robots controlled by an extremely advanced self aware computer system.

We probably also shouldn't be sending out a shit ton of signals into space saying "HEY ALIENS OVER HERE!" because that's just asking them to invade us.

Oh and with the new VR systems like Oculus Rift, lets do some R&D and safety tests to make sure that they are safe so that they can't, oh I don't know FRY YOUR BRAIN AND KILL YOU! Don't really wanna get the latest fancy VR device and the latest fancy game to find out that one of the creators went crazy and hacked the game to make it so we can't log out until we beat the final dungeon and if we die in the game or someone tries to force the systems off of us then it will fry our games and kill us in RL. So yeah, lets do some safety research on that.

Also psych evals on the all the scientists working on this stuff should probably also come in handy.

Other than that, lets be smart about this new technology and before we know it, we'll all be enjoying our holodeck catgirl harems.


MMMMMMMMMM catgirl harems.