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ReligionIsPoison's avatar

Your dad thinks I'm cute. You want to give him my number for me?

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It's a good point, and worth returning to now and then. Progress has been a bit sticky, in a two steps forward one back sense. But unfortunately all of that can be undermined by major and sudden climate change, by global nuclear war (a real possibility that we've somehow become blasé about), and the genetic/bio/nano weapons of the near future. Oh, and AI, which could (will, probably) cross a threshold very suddenly and either be weaponized or develop its own agendas that have little regard for our "progress". Yes, these are SF staples, and not very imaginative at this point as SF, but they're also future projections with a lot more relevance than whatever it is that most people imagine as their grandchildren's reality.

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