I've just rewatched this movie (The Time Machine 2002), and it got me thinking about the future of our species.
Human hubris has been the main culprit of ending civilizations in the past. The tower of Babel, is a parable about human arrogance. We are the pinnacle of society.
Honk honk.
In their arrogance, the Babylonians, Greeks, Romans and Egyptians all though they're the pinnacle, and named themselves pharaohs, gods; Chinese emperors' childish quests for immortality;
And now, WE think we are the real deal, the best of humanity, this is the end of history...
It's all human hubris. Arrogance disguised as intellectualism.
We've overplayed our hands countless times and have collapsed counless times.
Look at the insufferable manchildren of today's world, illiterate billionaires who have never suffered a day in their lives (trump, altman, zuckerberd, musk, etc.), look at their vanity and hubris, and you will instantly see that our tower of Babel's foundations are already shaking.
People in science communities thinking they are above learning the fundamentals of science.
Diploma mills dilluting the precious pool of scientists, jeets and other grifters using ai to permanently ruin the reputation of science papers.

To give you an idea, scientists have named the current geological era the Holocene. It started 12.000 years ago, when the planet entered a TEMPORARY interglacial period.
Let me quote it from wiki:
>ThePleistocenereferred to colloquially as theIce Age) is the geologicalepochthat lasted fromc.2.58millionto 11,700 years ago,
See the problem? Human hubris thinks that the ICE AGE THAT HAS LASTED TWO AND A HALF MILLION YEARS, suddenly ended 10k years ago, DUE TO HUMANS.
Can you be any more vain, human centric and arrogant than this?
OBVIOUSLY the Ice Age is not over, it will continue despite what our monkey species names it. It doesn't magically end.

But what happens in 100.000 years into the future?
What about 800.000 years?