A Possible Scenario of Annihilation

Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki ()
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Andrzej Piotr Wierzbicki: National Institute of Telecommunication

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Future of Work in Information Society, 2016, pp 47-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract An exponential growth, an avalanche-like development observed in the last 300 years of the history of humanity is a result of positive feedbacks, and each such positive feedback process ends with encountering a constraint. Such constraint might be the end of work, if not alleviated by essential reforms. A revolutionary way of the change is extremely dangerous today, because of amassment of nuclear weapons and the spread of knowledge how to construct them. The chapter presents the dangers of the revolutionary way in a possible scenario of annihilation of human intelligence on Earth. Such scenario is exceptional, but similar scenarios become today not only possible, also even more probable.

Keywords: Exponential growth; Avalanche-like development; Elastic labour market leading to a revolution; Dangers of a global revolution; Rarity of civilisations in outer space; Annihilation of human civilization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33909-2_6

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