The British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned that advances in Technology , along with a number of factors that are directly dependent people, threaten the continuity of mankind.
For the scientist, these developments will result in “new ways in which things can end badly” and said among the risks that could put the world in peril possible nuclear war, global warming and virus genetic engineering , according to the BBC ahead today.
These statements are extracted from a conference that Hawking has recorded and that will be issued next January 26 and February 2 Reith Lecture on BBC Radio 4 on their research on black holes.
In response to questions from the audience, Hawking said the humanity could survive if finally gets to set and lift colonies in space .
“Although the possibility of a disaster on Earth now seems very low, it is almost a certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years,” he said.
However, 74 scientist explained that, by then, humans “have expanded the universe” and come “to other stars,” so a catastrophe on the planet “does not mean the end of human race” .
A although it sounds promising, Hawking made clear that humanity “should be very careful” now because the “self-sufficient” colonies in outer space will not be feasible until after “at hundred years “.
The astrophysicist and pointed out the risks that would entail for the extinction of the human race rapid and strong rise of artificial intelligence.
In addition, it was defined as a person “optimistic” to believe it possible that humans may recognize in time the dangers of science and technology to “control”.
He also advised the new generation of young scientists that their challenge is to help understand how these discoveries will change the world. EFE
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