Has Humanity Peaked

[MrNoMotivation]

If we really wanted to we could solve a lot of the worlds problems easily.
How much food and water do we all really need?
If everyone ate what they're bodies needed and not what they wanted there would be enough for everyone.
We can build gas pipes that are 000's of miles long but we can't do the same for water. Come on.

[RichardCranium]

Personally speaking I think that the measure of humanities successes is perhaps a little closer to home and might contain a combination of:

- % of countries at wars (internal or external)
- number of infant deaths / 1000 population
- number of deaths due to malnutrition or dehydration / 1000 population
- % of deaths caused by communicable diseases
- % growth in planetary population
- % growth in planetary agricultural output

I'm by no means an agrarian but it's more important that a population should be able to feed itself, surely?

- restraint in planetary population growth

[Menelaus]

Spaceflight, whilst an important measure of human success, is surely not the only measure?

Personally speaking I think that the measure of humanities successes is perhaps a little closer to home and might contain a combination of:

- % of countries at wars (internal or external)
- number of infant deaths / 1000 population
- number of deaths due to malnutrition or dehydration / 1000 population
- % of deaths caused by communicable diseases
- % growth in planetary population
- % growth in planetary agricultural output

I'm by no means an agrarian but it's more important that a population should be able to feed itself, surely?

[xoggoth]

Socialism killed progress.

[MrNoMotivation]

forgot to mention bruce lee

[NotAllThere]

Dentistry is way better now than in 1969.

[MrNoMotivation]

People will have the opportunity of much greater longevity within a few decades due to advances in stem cell technology which will allow new hearts etc to be grown to suit an individual. The later that you were born the better your chance of taking advantage of the opportunities. Don't knock it !!

This is true. Although if things carry on the way they are going do you really want to live until you're 120. I've got a 2.5 yr old and I'm worried what the world will be like when she get's older.

[MrNoMotivation]

Hunanity peaked in 1969. Concorde. Moon landings. Since then it appears to have gone backwards.

All these technology devices to bring us together(internet, mobiles, etc) seem to have replaced human contact and made people less society aware.

Elvis
Beatles
Michael Jackson
Abba
Bee Gees

Rocky
Muhammad Ali
Tyson
Brazil and Pele
1966
Sampras, becker, Graff, Navrat, Laver etc.

The Walkman
Microsoft
Concorde
Man on the Moon
Lamborghini Countach

etc. etc.

[DimPrawn]

If you look at the Technology page on the BBC, all it talks about is FaceBook, Twitter and the like.

The future is tulip.

[Churchill]

People will have the opportunity of much greater longevity within a few decades due to advances in stem cell technology which will allow new hearts etc to be grown to suit an individual. The later that you were born the better your chance of taking advantage of the opportunities. Don't knock it !!

For a price.

[BrilloPad]

Hunanity peaked in 1969. Concorde. Moon landings. Since then it appears to have gone backwards.

All these technology devices to bring us together(internet, mobiles, etc) seem to have replaced human contact and made people less society aware.

[Cyberman]

Will the 20th Century be the last great century?
Was just thinking of everthing that happened in those 100 yrs compared to the pants stuff we have going on at the moment.
Don't think the progress we will make will make much of a difference.
Wish I was born born in the early 50s.

People will have the opportunity of much greater longevity within a few decades due to advances in stem cell technology which will allow new hearts etc to be grown to suit an individual. The later that you were born the better your chance of taking advantage of the opportunities. Don't knock it !!

[EternalOptimist]

Wish I was born born in the early 50s.

I tried it once. It was rubbish

[MrNoMotivation]

Will the 20th Century be the last great century?
Was just thinking of everthing that happened in those 100 yrs compared to the pants stuff we have going on at the moment.
Don't think the progress we will make will make much of a difference.
Wish I was born born in the early 50s.