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What is the Future of Humanity? • Philosophers, Anthropologists, famous authors, religious leaders, popular entertainment figures, and all of us, in our daily conversations, ask and wonder what our world/society will look like in the future. • In discussing the future, we often use terms such as (utopian-perfect society); dystopian (problematic/controlling society); civilization (meaning state or city living) and apocalypse (a sudden catastrophic end to civilization).

A Few Noteworthy Authors on the Future of Humanity • • • Margaret Atwood “Oryx and Crake, Flood, Madd. Adam” George Orwell “ 1984” Aldous Huxley “Brave New World” Suzanne Collins “Hunger Games Trilogy” Veronica Roth “Divergent Series” James Dashner “Maze Runner Series” Stephen King “The Stand” H. G Wells “The Time Machine” Ray Bradbury “Fahrenheit 451”

Some Religious Views on the Future of Humanity • Many religions and cultures have prophesized the end of the world. • A second coming. • A rebirth. • Punishment for not living according to God’s plan. • The rapture.

A Few Anthropologists and Scientists • Jared Diamond “How Societies Collapse and Fall” • David Suzuki-Several publications “We, as a society, are at an impasse. We must look at the ramifications of technology and decide how far we should go. ” • Ronald Wright “A Short History of Progress” • Joseph Tainter “Societal Collapse”

Popular Movies • • • 12 monkeys-A super disease Demolition Man-No crime in the future The Island-Cloning Gattaca-Eugenics (genetic manipulation of the fetus) I am Legend (super disease) End of Days The Road Book of Eli 28 Days Later This is the End and Shaun of the Dead-lol

• Many of the futuristic books, movies, and publications refer to the end of the world or extreme changes in our world due to: • Extreme famine/poverty, war, super diseases, environmental catastrophe, artificial life, extraterrestrial life. Past civilizations such as: Easter Island, Mayans, Babylonians, etc are used as an example to show all major civilizations fall. • Many think the world will end because our society has changed. • READ “The Paradox of Our Time” http: //inspiremewithwords. wordpress. com/2012/01/10/poem-the-paradox-of-our-time/