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Originally Posted by casstony
The pace of our evolution has been astonishing considering the short time we've been around and that pace has increased at an increasing rate. We've learned to live cooperatively in ever larger groups though we're still burdened with the competitive nature that was necessary in our early development. Our ability to cooperate will either catch up to our technological development or our technology will destroy us - time will tell.
Even if our technology destroys us it may continue on as a self-reliant, evolving artificial intelligence. Possibilities are endless.
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Depending upon where one draws the line we have been around for up to 4 million years.
As for living cooperatively in ever larger groups might I point you to Libya? Perhaps China and Tibet. Or perhaps just to any of the genocidal programs of the modern world... starting with the Tasmanians and progressing to Auschwitz and then perhaps Africa?
It will not be our technology that destroys us it will be our greed.
The possibilities may be endless but if the universe has any luck at all humanity will be finite.
Consider for just a moment how much better off Mother Earth and all the rest of the creatures that inhabit this planet would be without us.
Brian