Great connection there TS has made.

Economic View
We are viewing everything in terms of numbers, and often we see invaluable things being weight like: profit made by chopping down the forest vs cost to turn the forest into a national park.

Human Population View
More an more human being working together turning Earth into a gigantic human nest that is only good for two creatures: human and cockroaches

Earth View
Despite all the gimmicks about saving the world, global warming, say no to plastic bags, green house gases, etc. We are sitting comfortable in an air conditioned room doing what we are busy at and couldn't care more about whether it is sunny or rainy outdoor.

Disease View
It is quite unlikely that a flu will wipe out the entire human race. Most deadly disease cause by the lack of physical challenge aka exercise. See below.

Automation
This is the part that link all the above together! No I am not talking about some terminator will blow your head off next morning. For the sake of automation, more and more human being are losing the actual ability to survive in real world.
- we survive by earning enough money to get the things we need(economic)
- we are sort of disconnected with our real environment and have been living in our own greenhouse, not many city folks able to survive in the wild or when all civilisation is lost, even walking under the hot sun for one whole afternoon is challenging for many human. (Earth)
- most sickness is somehow linked to extensive automation: car, remote control, personal computer, hand phone. Such as, high blood pressure, obesity, heart disease, etc. (disease)
And in the end, if some kind of disaster strike and sort of wipe out all the technology and civilisation, such as nuclear strike, solar storm or some bad luck fallen comet. Most will died due to lack of real survival skill because all they know is IT, accounting, financial, etc.

Space Frontier View
The Macross Frontier(space colony type mega space ship that have self contained eco system and a city for people to live on) style fantasy will take many centuries(if not millenniums) to achieve. I am sceptical about the possibilities that we will have a peace and prosperous period long enough for us to develop such a technology before we eventually destroyed ourselves.

I didn't mean it literally, far from it to be honest. In a sense, there's only SO far mankind may advance don't you think? And after that, well..the climax ends and we just have the anticlimax. But I could be wrong you know.

Interesting thought... mind to share with us an example of anticlimax in mankind history?

Extinction.... I could not think it, but if there is a war, human could extinct in this modern times. Why? Nowdays there is too many weapons that could lead human to extinction.

Peace, there will be not absolute peace. It will be there. Where there is the light, there will be shadow. Humans will always like that.

Human nowdays have less chances of survival as many new technology make them work-less. People in these days develop new syndrome, "big head" and "small body" like new generation alien. Exercise is treated like recreation, they do when they want it.

Propesrity? Hell no.
Extinction? Almost. Maybe the next 200 years or so.
Space? In progress.
Matrix? Yes..No? Whatever.

If you ask me, I'd say we're heading towards to creating a total pile of mess to live in. Our world is xxxxed up now and I don't see any sign of it moving backward from the point of no return.