Stephen Hawking predicts a progressive faster coming end for the earth. Currently, the world-famous theoretical physicist and multiple Prize and award winners with only 100 years remaining. Why Hawking sees humanity halfway to extinction on climate change and other threats.
Shocking Prophecy
As a species, we just managed to steer past the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar and now this. A world-renowned scientist – perhaps the best of his time – gives humanity another 100 years on earth. While others Hawking's age spend their old age in nursing homes and on a good day can name their grandchildren, the physicist predicts the end for us. And not for the first time. Hawking had already given an estimate of the end of mankind in the past. The difference? Exactly 900 years.
Less than a year after his original estimate, the multi-award-winning scientist revised it.
His statement is based on the many man-made disasters. First and foremost, according to Hawking, is climate change, closely followed by possible future threats such as artificial intelligence or even artificially produced viruses.
What currently sounds a lot like science fiction does not seem so improbable when viewed neutrally. Because our world is increasingly based on a technology that is only about 25 years old. We're talking about the Internet. If you keep in mind the monstrous disruptive forces and the changes they have caused over the last 20 years, prophecies of artificial intelligence or the end of the world in the next 80 years no longer seem so improbable.
Scientists see red
Hawking is not alone in his fears. Other no less renowned scientists also expressed concerns. For example, Tesla founder and multi-entrepreneur Elon Musk told us some time ago before the threat to artificial intelligence preserved. The positive news, however, is this: The enormous changes and achievements of the last 20 years also testify to the potential that lies dormant in the future.
According to Hawking, we're also going to need this one urgently. His recommendation in view of the approaching human extinction is evolution into a multiplanetary species. To be more precise: Nothing like going up to Mars. What seems absurd to most of us is already everyday business for Elon Musk and NASA. Space X, Musk's space company, is planning a first relocation to the red planet in 16 years.
However, we won't have to wait that long, because at least more details on Hawking's estimate will be available for the first time on June 15 on the BBC. The title of the new documentary is "Expedition New Earth" and deals with mankind's emergency plan. Because it doesn't matter whether it's 100, 1000 or even more years. The end is coming, one way or another.
