30 Insane Scenarios About the Future That Might Actually Happen

THE ROBOTS ARE INDEED COMING

Only not as personal assistants and vacuum cleaners. Ask any smart person and they’ll tell you, “Oh yeah, we’re making robots that are way too smart. We’re all doomed.” Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley startup, believes that “we will be the first species ever to design our own descendants.”

Dr. Nayef Al-Rodhan, a Neuroscientist and Geostrategist—which are two occupations that almost sound like fake jobs from a science-fiction movie—says that it’s only a matter of time before human beings create “transhumans,” which are just “improved versions of themselves that will eventually pose a threat to non-enhanced humans.”