Last moments of Human

Posted on June 9, 2008 at 2:00 pm.
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Dooms dayRenowned scientist Sir Martin Rees, a Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge and Britain’s Astronomer Royal believes humans have only a 50% chance of making it through just the next century alone. In the book Our Final Hour, Rees argues aside from climate change humans are still in far greater danger from the potential effects of modern technology and our own inexplicably destructive natures than we commonly realize. Rees seems to think that the man-made disasters like engineered viruses, nuclear terrorism, and even a take-over by super-intelligent machines, are just as significant, if not more, of a threat to our long-term survival.

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