Post by Logan on Jan 19, 2016 21:30:04 GMT -6
Scientific progress is almost certain to bring disaster to planet Earth within the next few thousand years, according to top cosmologist Professor Stephen Hawking.
He predicts that as new technologies are developed, the number of threats to the human race will increase until some kind of global cataclysm is virtually inevitable.
In the time period before humans manage to escape to the stars, they will have to be “very careful”, he says.
Hawking’s warning came during a question-and-answer session at the BBC Reith Lectures at London’s Royal Institution on Jan. 7.
Continued at nypost.com/2016/01/19/stephen-hawking-science-is-going-to-kill-us-all/ .
He predicts that as new technologies are developed, the number of threats to the human race will increase until some kind of global cataclysm is virtually inevitable.
In the time period before humans manage to escape to the stars, they will have to be “very careful”, he says.
Hawking’s warning came during a question-and-answer session at the BBC Reith Lectures at London’s Royal Institution on Jan. 7.
Continued at nypost.com/2016/01/19/stephen-hawking-science-is-going-to-kill-us-all/ .