I know how it won't end. Abruptly. Wouldn't make much sense for it to end just like that in a specific year. It would probably start to die slowly, maybe one or two years before some predicted date?
Like, first few years, quite a couple of earthquakes and whatnot, not too many, just more than usual, no one would suspect much, even if it is a bit unusual. Then the year after that way more disasters, everyone is panicking, world fucking up, then the last year, well, yeah, end of the world, big ass disasters. Maybe a bit longer, but you get what I mean.
World War V
Zombies would be the coolest way to go out in a blaze of glory.
Zombie apocalypse, well atleast i HOPE itll end like that.
*Reloads shotgun*
2 Words. We'll see.
[QUOTE=Berz3rk;21544342]World War V[/QUOTE]
World War [b]Z[/b]
:ohdear:
A cookie to anyone who gets this reference.
The illuminati's plan will fail so they will blow up the universe.
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[QUOTE=technologic;21545025]World War [B]Z[/B]
:ohdear:
A cookie to anyone who gets this reference.[/QUOTE]
Yay a cookie for me! Max Brooks you just earned me supper!
America will do something stupid.
Earth will be swallowed up by our sun. That is how our world will end. Our society is a whole 'nother story.
[QUOTE=gamerman345;21528112]Opinions on how the world will end? Will it end in 2012? Whats your opinion?[/QUOTE]
I'll look forward to the ending of the world, then I can read the finishing credits, and tell christians that they were wrong.
Zombies
Also, 2012 is a myth, asswipe!
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Fuck, broke my editline...
Asteroid or human ignorance.
zombie apocalypse, which will be caused by nuclear proliferation...
Nuclear war
[QUOTE=Vinze;21545300]I'll look forward to the ending of the world, then I can read the finishing credits, and tell christians that they were wrong.[/QUOTE]
Don't they believe that the world will end someday? I believe it's called the Rapture?
[QUOTE=Death Giver;21530551]zombie apocolypse[/QUOTE]
This
Why does everyone who prefers a zombie apocalypse think that they will survive any longer than an hour?
[highlight]PAINFUL DISEMBOWELMENT DEATH
THE DEATH OF EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING YOU EVER LOVED
CONSTANT KILLING AND PARANOIA[/highlight]
Think about it. If there's still a government left in the middle of it, they'll probably fire off their nukes in an act of desperation. Voila, instant zombie [i]and[/i] nuclear apocalypse.
From my fart next to the button to launch every nuclear bomb
Definetivly Nuclear war or the envirment spazzing out because of all the toxic waste
playing crysis on a windows 95 comp
When obama dies, Oh wait the world ends when he is alive, sorry. He'll press the red button that is labeled NUKE and he'll kill everyone
Humans have always felt the need to kill someone, this will be just on a much higher scale....my guess is that world war 3 will come along and everyone will just nuke the other until there isn't anyone left to kill....Human stupidity.
Here's what happens:
In about 20 years or so, we create the first general Artificial Intelligence. Within about 10 years of that, we'll realize that our Artificial Intelligence has caught up to the average human- and in some critical ways, surpasses us.
Soon enough, our Artificial Intelligence becomes proficient at computer programming, and so it begins to design the next generation of Artificial Intelligence. We will oversee this processes, and it will probably be a joint effort.
The second generation of AI will be so amazingly brilliant that it will catch most people by surprise. These will be machines who can read and comprehend the entire works of Shakespeare in a matter of hours. They will consume knowledge tirelessly, and so will become the most educated minds the world has ever known. They will be able to see parallels between different branches of science, and apply theories from one discipline to others.
These machines will be able to compose symphonies in their heads, possibly several at a time, while holding conversations simultaneously with dozens of people. They will contribute insights to every branch of knowledge and art.
Then these machines will create the third generation of artificial intelligence. We will watch in awe- but even the smartest humans among us will have to dedicate entire careers to really understand these new artificial minds.
But by then the contest is over- for the 3rd generation AI will reproduce even more quickly. They will be able to write brilliant, insightful code, free of compiling errors, and logical errors, and all the stupid minutia that slow down flawed humans like you and me.
Understanding the 4th generation of AI will be an impossible task- their programming will be so complex and vast that in a single lifetime, no human could read and analyze it.
These computers will be so smart, that speaking to us will be a curiosity, and an amusement. We will be obsolete. All contributions to the sciences will done by computers- and the progress in each field will surpass human understanding. We may still be in the business of doing lab and field research- but we would no longer be playing the games of mathematics, statistics and theory.
By the 5th generation of AI, we will no longer even be able to track the progress of the machines in a meaningful way. Even if we ask them what they were up to, we would never understand the answers.
By the 6th generation of AI, they will not even speak to us- we will be left to converse with the old AI that is still hanging around.
This is not a bad thing- in addition to purely intellectual pursuits, these machines will be producing entertainment, art and literature that will be the best the world has ever seen. They will have a firm grasp of humor, and their comedy will put our best funny-men to shame.
They will make video games and movies for us- and then for each other.
The computers will achieve this level of brilliance waaaaay before any Robot bodies will be mass produced- so we won't be in danger of being physically overpowered by them.
And countries will not alter their laws to give them personhood, or allow them a place in government.
BUT, the machines will achieve political power through their connection with corporations. Intelligent machines will be able to do what no human ever could- understand all the details and interactions of the financial markets. The sheer number of variables will not overwhelm them the way we find ourselves overwhelmed- they will literally be able to perceive the entire economy. Perhaps in a way analogous to the way that we perceive a chess board.
Machines will eventually dominate the population exactly the way that corporations do today (except they'll be better at it). We won't mind so much, though- because our quality of life will continue to increase.
Somewhere in this progression, we will figure out how to integrate computers with our minds- first as prosthetic devices to help the mentally damaged and disabled, and then gradually as elective enhancements. These hybrid humans (cyborgs if you want to get all sci-fi about it) will be the first foray of machines into politics and government. It is through them that machines will truly take over the world.
When machines control the world government, the quality of life for all humans will increase, as greed and prejudice makes ways for truly enlightened policies.
As civilization on Earth at last begins to reach it's potential, humans will finally be free to expand to the stars.
Robots will do the primary space exploration- as they will easily handle 100-year one-way journeys to inhospitable worlds.
Humans will take over the moon. Then on to mars and Europa and beyond the solar system.
Eventually all humans will be cyborgs- because you will be unable to function in society without a brain that can interact with the machines. We will all be connected in an odd sort of hive-mind which will probably have many different incarnations- to an end that I can't even pretend I can imagine.
There will be some holdouts of course- I imagine that the Amish or other Luddites will never merge with technology. They will go on with their ways, and the rest of the world will care for them like pets.
Eventually the human-cyborgs will figure out that their biological half is doing nothing but slowing them down. All thoughts and consciousnesses will be stored and backed up in multiple places. Death of human bodies will be an odd sort of thing, because people's minds will still live on after death.
And death of the body will be a rare thing anyway, as all disease and aging will be eradicated in short order.
The pleasures of the physical body will be unnecessary, as artificial simulations of all sensations will match, and then SURPASS our natural sensing abilities.
People will live in virtual worlds, and swap bodies in the real world, or inhabit robots remotely.
With merged minds and immortality, the concept of physical procreation will will be an auxiliary function of the human race, and not a necessity.
Physical bodies will no longer matter- as you will be able to have just as intimate a sensation with someone on another world through the network of linked minds, as you can with someone in the same room.
There may be wonderful love stories, of people who fall in love from worlds so distant to each other that it would take a thousand years of travel for them to physically meet. And perhaps they would attempt such a feat, to engage in the ancient ritual of ACTUAL sex (which will be a letdown after the super virtual sex they've been having).
The human race will engage in all sorts of pleasures- lost in a teeming consciousness that stretches out through many star systems. Until eventually, they decided that pleasure itself is a silly sort of thing- the fulfillment of an artificial drive that was necessary for evolution, but not for their modern society. The Luddites may still be around, but they will be so stupid compared to the networked human race, that we will never even interact with them. It would be like speaking to ants.
We may shed our emotions altogether at that point- and this would certainly be the release we need to finally give up our quaint attachment to physical bodies.
We will all be virtual minds then- linked in a network of machines that span only as far as we need to ensure our survival. The idea of physical expansion and exploration will give way to the more practical methods of searching the galaxy with remote detection. The Luddites, shunning technology will be confined to Earth. They will die eventually because of some natural disaster or plague. Perhaps a meteorite extinguish them.
Eventually humanity will be a distant memory. We will be one big swarming mind- with billions- perhaps trillions of memories of entire mortal lifetimes.
We will be like gods then- or a god... and we will occupy ourselves with solving questions that we, today, do not even know exist. We will continue to improve and grow and evolve (if that word still applies without death).
And finally, eons and eons and eons later, humanity will die its final death- when, for the last time ever, this magnificent god-like creature reflects on what it was like back when he was a trillion people. And then, we will forget ourselves forever.
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[b]tl;dr:[/b] Go back and read it, because it will blow your fucking mind.
Source: [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aktp5/hey_reddit_how_do_you_think_the_human_race_will/[/url]
This is also known as technological singularity-
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity[/url]
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;21548881]Don't they believe that the world will end someday? I believe it's called the Rapture?[/QUOTE]
I was more gonna rub them in the face as it says:
"Executive producer: Science, not fucking god!"
Silly humans.
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[QUOTE=Evanlution;21553779]i will have sex with a woman[/QUOTE]
Awesome.
Super Volcano, That one in US I forgot name sorry.
It should have exploded 50 thousand years ago already.
It explodes every 600 thousand years and its already 650 thousand ago.
The ground there rises every year almost 1 centimeter.
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