Scenarios For the Near Future Climax of Human History

Technology has been rapidly accelerating for centuries.Perhaps the climax you feel rapidly approaching is your own.This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 11-30-2005 08:45 PM

That certainty has a long history: millenialism, the Age of Aquarius, "The End of History" (book a few years back about the current state of sociopolitical affairs as an end-point), countless second-coming watches, plans to greet the Mother Ship...Also, from my perspective as an graying no-longer-so political activist, I recall that youth carries its own sense of urgency and imminence, the sense that things can't go on like this, that things are coming to a head. We see the world on the scale of our individual lives, but history works its most profound changes on a larger canvas.You may in some sense be right, but you would be the first in a long, long line of folks who felt the same way and turned out to be wrong. Best of luck and good wishes: I am confident that life will offer you adventures.