Lord Martin Rees, What does the future hold? Fri 10 July

Understanding and changing the world beyond 2050
Professor Lord Martin Rees (University of Cambridge, UK)

Summary: By 2050, we will all be increasingly empowered by technology that potentially offers huge benefits to the developing and the developed world. But these same advances will pose novel ethical dilemmas, and render our ever-more interconnected world vulnerable to new and disruptive threats. Demands for energy, food and water could irreversibly degrade the Earths biosphere unless new technologies can be adopted by then. Scientific understanding will have greatly expanded. In particular, we can expect progress towards settling questions that would have fascinated Darwin: How and where did life begin? And has life emerged and evolved elsewhere in the cosmos?

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[Aiden057]

Martin Rees is such a treasure and I'm very grateful to him and to the University for this wonderful lecture.

[FIGHTFANNERD3]

transhumanism is coming

[perceptionsevrything]

There is no point to discussing the past or future because the past and the future are products of One's imagination. There is only now, period. One's Imagination=One's Dimensional Experience. This never ending experience happens so fast (the speed of light) One cannot physically experience or observe these dimensional shifts due to them happening simultaneously with the infinite now.

[patopotato999]

10:45 LOL : D

[MrKamal233]

Today worlds population is 9 mln, he professor predict this number for 2015.

[equsnarnd]

@DrZenith Main Stream Media. Read the book I recommended. I, too, read widely and in addition to reading all the pro warming literature I read those scientists who have serious issues with it as I'm not emotionally and spiritually wedded to the notion and am just looking for 'truth.'

[DrZenith]

@equsnarnd I don't know what MSM is but I read widely, as well as listening to the opinions and research of many scientists on this question. I have not seen Al Gore's movie, though I understand it's full of common sense which is something you American climate-change deniers can't seem to grasp.

Come back to me in 25 years when the effects begin to be pronounced and we'll see who's right on this question.

[equsnarnd]

@DrZenith And yours shows you can read the MSM and little else. Try reading The Chilling Stars by a physicist instead of lapping up the barf of Al Gore.

[DrZenith]

@equsnarnd Global warming is no joke. A few degrees rise could well cause the following: Rising sea levels due to melting of polar ice; mass population movements from poor to rich countries; increased methane emissions (methane stores heat much more than CO2) from former frozen tundra- causing faster warming; drought and desertification; mass extinction of species; diminished food production and famine at a time of rising world population. Your comment shows your ignorance.

[takeyourpillz]

thumbs up if you think earth wont he habitable for humans in 2150

[equsnarnd]

@0SC2010 And the problem with that is?

[equsnarnd]

Global Warming due to the burning of fossil fuels is a joke.