Scenarios For the Near Future Climax of Human History

If you want some excitement, then we need another world war or, even better, an alien invasion.But seriously, without some kind of real competition, we're not going to evolve far beyond this point.

Ok people, I'm going to only say this once, so listen up.I wasn't talking about biological evolution. I was referring more to technological and social evolution. Dudes, would I say something as absurd as what you guys apparently thought I said?

The thing is I don't think in most cases war was about food and habitat. The moment we came out of the stone age and crossed the bronca divide, it no longer was a necessity for us to compete with one another for food and habitat. Farming allowed incredibly huge number of people to persistantly live and develop in a relatively small area.So no, I really think war was mostly about power and riches. We could point out isolated cases where a group of people had to attack another group of people for survival, but those were nothing more than isolated cases.