Questions about the Future of Humanity 1. Does humanity have a future beyond Earth? “I think it’s a dangerous delusion to envisage mass emigration from Earth. There’s nowhere else in the solar system that’s as comfortable as even the top of Everest or the South Pole. We must address the world’s problems here. Nevertheless, I’d guess that by the next century, there will be groups of privately funded adventurers living on Mars and thereafter perhaps elsewhere in the solar system. We should surely wish these pioneer settlers good luck in using all the cyborg techniques and biotech to adapt to alien environments. Within a few centuries they will have become a new species: the posthuman era will have begun. Travel beyond the solar system is an enterprise for posthumans—organic or inorganic.” —Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist When and where do you think we will find extraterrestrial life? “If there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years—if it is enough like our form of life. If an alien life-form differs much from what we have here on Earth, it is going to be difficult to detect. It’s also possible that any surviving Martian microbes are rare and located in places that are difficult for a robotic lander to reach. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Titan are more compelling places. Europa is a water world where more complex forms of life may have evolved. And Titan is probably the most interesting place in the solar system to look for life. It is rich in organic molecules but very cold and has no liquid water; if life exists on Titan, it will be very different from life on Earth.”

1. Does humanity have a future beyond Earth? updated 2023
Learning Goal: I’m working on a English question and need the
explanation and answer to help me learn.
I think its a dangerous delusion to envisage mass emigration from Earth.
There’s nowhere else in the solar system that’s as comfortable as even
the top of Everest or the South Pole. We must address the worlds
problems here. Nevertheless,
Id guess that by the next century, there will be groups of privately
funded adventurers living on Mars and thereafter perhaps elsewhere in
the solar system.
We should surely wish these pioneer settlers good luck in using all the
cyborg techniques and biotech to adapt to alien environments.
Within a few centuries they will have become a new species: the
posthuman era will have begun
. Travel beyond the solar system is an enterprise for posthumans organic
or inorganic.
Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Questions about the Future of Humanity
1. Does humanity have a future beyond Earth?
“I think it’s a dangerous delusion to envisage mass emigration
from Earth. There’s nowhere else in the solar system that’s as
comfortable as even the top of Everest or the South Pole. We must
address the world’s problems here. Nevertheless, I’d guess that by
the next century, there will be groups of privately funded
adventurers living on Mars and thereafter perhaps elsewhere in the
solar system. We should surely wish these pioneer settlers good
luck in using all the cyborg techniques and biotech to adapt to alien
environments. Within a few centuries they will have become a new
species: the posthuman era will have begun. Travel beyond the
solar system is an enterprise for posthumans—organic or

2. inorganic.”
—Martin Rees, British cosmologist and astrophysicist
When and where do you think we will find extraterrestrial life?
“If there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it
within 20 years—if it is enough like our form of life. If an alien life-
form differs much from what we have here on Earth, it is going to be
difficult to detect. It’s also possible that any surviving Martian microbes
are rare and located in places that are difficult for a robotic lander to
reach. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Titan are more
compelling places. Europa is a water world where more complex forms
of life may have evolved. And Titan is probably the most interesting
place in the solar system to look for life. It is rich in organic molecules
but very cold and has no liquid water; if life exists on Titan, it will be
very different from life on Earth.”
—Carol E. Cleland, philosophy professor and co-investigator in the
Center for Astrobiology at the University of Colorado Boulder
2. Will we ever understand the nature of consciousness?
“Some philosophers, mystics and
other confabulators nocturne pontificate about the impossibility of
ever understanding the true nature of consciousness, of subjectivity.
Yet there is little rationale for buying into such defeatist talk and
every reason to look forward to the day, not that far off, when science
will come to a naturalized, quantitative and predictive understanding
of consciousness and its place in the universe.”
—Christof Koch, president and CSO at the Allen Institute for Brain
Science; member of the Scientific American Board of Advisers
3. Will the entire world one day have adequate health care?

3. “The global community has made tremendous progress toward
health equity over the past 25 years, but these advances have not
reached the world’s most remote communities. Deep in the rain
forest, where people are cut off from transportation and cellular
networks, mortality is the highest, access to health care is the most
limited and quality of care is the worst. The World Health
Organization estimates that one billion people go their entire lives
without seeing a health worker because of distance. Health workers
recruited directly from the communities they serve can bridge the
gap.
They can even fight epidemics such as Ebola and maintain access to
primary care when health facilities are forced to shut their doors. My
organization, Last Mile Health, now deploys more than 300 health
workers in 300 communities across nine districts in partnership with the
government of Liberia. But we can’t do this work alone. If the global
community is serious about ensuring access to health care for all, it must
invest in health workers who can reach the most remote communities.”
—Raj Panjabi, co-founder and chief executive at Last Mile Health and
instructor at Harvard Medical School
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