[mirimir]

Implants, I bet. Maybe not by 2030. But even 11-12 years is a long time, when stuff is developing exponentially.

[mamp]

I wonder if the fact there will be no effective antibiotics by 2030 will influence people's decisions to put foreign bodies under their skin.

[eanzenberg]

We are always a decade away from complete destruction of civilization...

[njarboe]

With a full global nuclear exchange, I would say more like 15 minutes.

[mirimir]

With any luck, we are always at least a decade away from "a full global nuclear exchange" :)

[njarboe]

True.

[baloki]

More like two minutes I hear?

https://thebulletin.org/sites/default/files/2018%20Doomsday%...

[mirimir]

OK, sure. But then, it's been minutes away from Midnight on the Doomsday Clock since the late 40s, no? I do remember being in Moscow, when Reagan's joke about bombing the Soviet Union went public. Everyone pretty much knew it was a joke, given what a funny guy he was, but still it was freaky. And I was in Helsinki during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it's not that far from Leningrad (as we knew it then). So now? The fear has worn off, pretty much, and the chances are good that I'll die of something far more mundane. But one never knows. And WTF, seeing a fireball up close and personal would be cool.

[mirimir]

That is a good point. But again, a decade is a long time now.