What intrigued me about this article, was not the article itself, but the sheer amount of responses. With that in mind, I thought I would pitch my own theory as to what I think will destroy the human race, and what I think could save us.
Technology is becoming better and better and artificial intelligence is becoming more and more advanced. The Matrix is an obvious example of what could happen, though other films have put forward interesting concepts. iRobot presented a future where man was imprisoned by machines in order to care for us in the long run. It would be remiss of me not to mention 2001: A Space Odyssey where a computer goes insane and kills everyone 'for no good reason'.
Medical technology has extended our life spans, to the point where people now live in awkwardness and sometimes pain for years at a time. This has led to people requesting death, rather than be kept alive by medical science. The film, Interview with a Vampire, proposed the interesting concept that given eternal life, no one chose to prolong it beyond 500 years. They all gently retreated from society and were lost.
In military terms, I am sure we will destroy ourselves if we avoid artificial intelligence either starting it for us or preventing us from doing it. We give weapons to our 'friends' and then hide from said weapons when our 'enemies' turn them on us.
Space Exploration as a means to extend life sounds like an interesting plan. It helps us escape from our ravaged planet, though it ultimately leads us to ravage another. We can hop from planet to planet for as long as we can, though inevitably we will fail. We are in fact the planetary equivalent of Necrotizing Fasciitis.
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