Category: Future History
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The end is nigh ??
The human species faces innumerable challenges to its long-term survival, including climate change, generative AI, bio-terrorism and nuclear conflict. A panel of the prominent thinkers, philosophers and ethicists discuss how we should consider these threats and the action needed to avert disaster, hosted by Prof. Hannah Fry.
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Climate Knowledge 2025
Doomerism about the state of the planet is widespread right now. Many see climate change as an insurmountable problem that we won’t be able to tackle. But the reality tells a different story, says data scientist Hannah Ritchie.
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Population Clockwatch
It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 11 billion?
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Humanity is trippin’ on junk intelligence
Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?” Subscribe to Be at https://grev.eu Subscribe to Big Think at https://bigthink.com
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Be careful what you wish for
Read transcript We can’t know what our future selves wants 4,303,383 views | Shankar Vedantam | TED • April 2022 “You are constantly becoming a new person,” says journalist Shankar Vedantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the “illusion of continuity” — the belief…
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Just Thinking …
Empathy over conflict, it’s all a matter of perspective Social Perspective – there are only two ways of responding to any challenging social circumstance or situation, positively or negatively, these are basic responses in individuals within the wider community, especially when feeling vulnerable or under threat. Human nature being what it is, usually tends towards the negative, as in…