Will there be intelligent life on Earth in another 100 years, or will we have exterminated ourselves?

Question

Are human beings the new dinosaurs? Will we be studied in the far distant future, by other intelligent creatures, as another failed life form?

Answer 1

You can probably answer that question yourself by reading the questions on Yahoo Answers!

We are over-populated and use the earth's resources at an amazing rate with no consideration for future generations.

Clean, fresh water is in short supply in many places, Germany has been recycling water for drinking for years, for example.

The other aspect is the size of the universe. If we are so egotistical to believe the whole universe is here just for us, we have another think coming. Whether other life forms are more advanced than us at this stage, of course we do not know. If they are will they arrive? Who knows, and if we manage to make the planet virtually uninhabitable, they probably wouldn't bother - unless they are benevolent enough to come and save our sorry backsides!

Answer 2

Neccesity is the mother of modern inventions (intelligence). Nowadays with all the technology around us, we no longer need to be smart as life is already very easy for most of us. With humans becoming less and less intelligent, we are bound to extinct. Perhaps not in the next 100 years, maybe longer, but we are bound to extinct. It's only a matter of when.

Answer 3

Our industrial capacity will be reduced, regardless of our population density, when fossil fuels become depleted. A scarcity of labor might, perhaps, make large scale industry impractical. But a lack of exergy makes it impossible. Famines will destroy urban and suburban areas within a hundred years, and the only humans to survive, anywhere, will be those who are spread out and have put to use the ability to live by (decentralized) hand-tool agriculture. The ones who do best will have risen up to destroy every sort of parasite, such as bandits and tax collectors.

Answer 4

There are today intelligent life forms on Earth,not including humans.Like humans evolved ,some other life form will evolve like them.But I am sure that wont happen in next 100 years.

Answer 5

I think it very unlikely we will wipe ourselves out. We have the technological capacity to survive most any conditions that life can at the moment, so unless we wipe out all life we will likely survive.

Our numbers could reduce drastically however. The real danger is in lowering the density of our populations, because that will negate our technological ability by reducing our industrial capacity, but I think that we probably could concentrate ourselves in enough time on realising a disaster situation.

In response to the guy who said "Our industrial capacity will be reduced, regardless of our population density, when fossil fuels become depleted."

This is not realistic, we have run out of specific resources before and adapted. We already have the capacity to replace all our energy with non-fossil fuel sources, it is just not profitable at present.

Answer 6

"Failed?" The dinosaurs didn't fail, as I recall they did pretty well for a few hundred million years.

Earth will continue to have intelligent life with or without us. We can f**k things up pretty bad, but there will be some species, say, burrowing lizard-moles, which will be able to thrive in whatever environment exists at that time.

Answer 7

The most intelligent life form is probably a worm.If you cut them in half you have two of them.So we will have worm television in the future unless we do something about it.

Answer 8

Yea, that is what is going to pretty much happen, people are just going to kill eachother, our society is going way down instead when we should be making a better for our younger generation.

Answer 9

Well, so long as George Bush eventually leaves us, then and only then will we have a shot at surviving.

Answer 10

Everyone shall die by my hand.