Future of humanity

The future of humanity is the long-term fate of the human species.

Nick Bostrom has identified four broad possibilities for the long-term future of humanity (Bostrom 2009).

First, humans may go prematurely extinct. Since the universe will eventually become inhospitable, extinction is inevitable in the very long-run. However, it is also plausible that people will die out far before this deadline, from one of a number of existential risks....

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