Originally Posted by
Superluminal
And then we fast forward 75-100 years. We turn into a worldwide united economy, were there are universal regulations on everything and as a whole we graduate into Type 1 civilization, after new advances in technology, setting our differences, and harnessing all the available power of our planet (instead of relying primarily on fossil fuels). Either that or our intolerance gets the best of us and we end up destroying ourselves, and or set ourselves backwards 100 years or more in progress. It's 50/50 scenario in which, as of now, our progress is displaying more to the later.
It's more like a 99.999% chance that we step back 15,000 years. We very briefly hit Type 1 on the Kardashev scale for a few nanoseconds in the last century, and we had to detonate thermonuclear weapons to do it. In fact, we have regressed quite a bit. We no longer have supersonic passenger flight, we are to revert from space shuttles to space capsules in under a decade, our data transfer abilities are limited by switching technology from the late 1960's, market communism has replaced capitalism, and either Marxism or fascism will soon replace our last shreds of democracy. Even our produce has lost over 40% of its nutrient value, for the sake of green-revolution fueled population growth. Not to mention that in under a decade, natural gas supplies will go into terminal decline, which will rapidly make chemical fertilizers unavailable at any price. It's a simple overshoot scenario, which will play out over the next few decades.
We are well on the path to destroying ourselves, and humanity has a tendency to follow the path of least resistance. A "Star Trek" future seems less likely than a "Mad Max" future at this point.
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