The answer is and I quote from Yuval Noah Harari’s latest book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, explores humanity’s extraordinary voyage into the information era.

“ We are living through the most profound information revolution in human history”.

To understand it, we need to understand what has come before. 

We have named our species Homo sapiens, the wise human – but if humans are so wise, why are we doing so many self-destructive things?

In particular, why are we on the verge of committing ecological and technological suicide?

Humanity gains power by building large networks of cooperation, but the easiest way to build and maintain these networks is by spreading fictions, fantasies, and mass delusions.

In the 21st century, AI may form the nexus for a new network of delusions that could prevent future generations from even attempting to expose its lies and fictions.

These are very wise words.

However, history is not deterministic, and neither is technology: by making informed choices, we can still prevent the worst outcomes. Because if we can’t change the future, then why waste time discussing it?

Why?

Unfortunately I believe that we as a species are incapable of acting for the common good of all.

Why?

Because of greed, envy and fear.

Yes we are definitely in the future going to be more and more assimilated into artificial intelligence driven machines.

However all will have to contend with the many possible contributors to our disappearance from earth! climate change, nuclear annihilation, biological warfare, ecological collapse, take your pick.

Other scenarios center on emerging technologies, such as advanced artificial intelligence, biotechnology, or self-replicating nano bots,.

Throughout human history many societal collapse have already happened.

There is of course one other event that could cause our extinction, that is the resurrection.

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