Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks

"Our environment, and I mean                            
our man-made world of
machines, artificial
constructs, computers, electronic
systems, interlinking
homeostatic components-all of
this is, in fact beginning more
and more to possess what the
earnest psychologists fear the
primitive sees in his
environment: animation. In a
very real sense our environment
is becoming alive, or at least
quasi-alive, and in ways
specially and fundamentally
analogous to ourselves."

Philip Kindred Dick


 "There is infinite hope, but not for us."                                                                                                           Franz Kafka