Short Human Timelines - Keep the Flame Going When Our Torch Goes Out - Daniel Faggella
Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law
By Dan July 11, 2025 May 8, 2026 May 8, 2026 Given a long enough time horizon, all things (individuals, species, forms) die out completely or transform into something else. Lucretius and the second law of thermodynamics concur here. In this article, I’m going to argue that humanity has remarkably short timelines – maybe 1-2 decades at most – to either be destroyed or to transform into something very much other than our present hominid form. I’ll lay out the destructive and transformational implications of three different forces of change on our current condition: External forces Th
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