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You have to protect yourself! The 4 "End of the World" according to Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking was a reference in the world of science and dissemination. Endowed with a prodigious brain, an admirable sense of humor and such a fine wit that forces us to follow each of His publications and lectures surprised us with what, according to him, would be the greatest dangers that humanity should face in the coming years.

However, we must clarify something, with "next years" we mean actually a few decades ago, there where the grandchildren of our grandchildren should be prepared for a planet Earth as fragile as dangerous.

Today we invite you to put your eye on the peephole of a future something apocalyptic .In those days when our beautiful planet could disappear for 4 reasons that Stephen Hawking considers "probable".

You have to protect yourself! The 4 «End of the World» according to Stephen Hawking

On January 19, 2016 Stephen Hawking participated in a series of talks held every year at the BBC since 1948. The director of the chain John Reith created this space in order to talk about our planet and science in general.

On this occasion, the topic of the talk was very concrete: the threats that can end the humanity.Here, Stephen Hawking made his main deductions very clear, facts that we all imagined after all.

The smallest and most dangerous enemy: viruses

Not we see, we do not perceive them but we feel them if they come into contact with our organism.We speak first of all of the "bacteriological" wars to that bioterrorism that causes so much fear, and that so much helplessness can occur in a country at a given time only with the simple threat.

You have to protect yourself! The 4

Stephen Hawking spoke first of all of a risk: the danger of laboratories.He was no longer talking about the war between powers and the danger of a country use this weapon as an attack, for the greatest danger would reside in those small accidents that may arise at the experimental level.

As an example: at the University of Wisconsin, the scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka has a deadly strain of the bird flu virus .If there is a failure, the consequences would be fearsome.

Another disturbing aspect is the so-called "superbugs" and the fact that many of the modern drugs are losing their curative action in some of those bacteria that are mutating day by day.

A nuclear holocaust

Surely you remember a story that jumped into media in recent weeks: North Korea already has (apparently) a hydrogen bomb .If it doesn't do too much When the world was shaking with the antagonism between Russia and the United States, it seems that now the enemies have grown and speak numerous languages.

You have to protect yourself! The 4

The human being is aggressive, irrational and sometimes wild.He continues to fight for his territories as many animals do, and something like that, It can plunge us into a huge disaster: a nuclear disaster.

Climate change

We are already suffering, and who does not want to see it is that it has its own interests so that nothing changes, so that it continues to pollute and deplete natural resources.

You have to protect yourself! The 4

Hawking had already repeatedly warned about changes in the global temperature of the planet and its warming.The poles are melting , the water level rises and all this, can end the Amazon and other green lungs. It will increase the temperature of the sea and little by little the greenhouse effect will be little more than a certain death or in consequently, a slow change of "everything that is known to us".

Disturbing, there is no doubt.

Warning: Artificial intelligence assassin

"Skynet" could be activated in the coming years. Something that has let us intuit the Terminator saga is an aspect that Stephen Hawking also warned us.he wrote a letter with personalities such as Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk or Steve Wozniak where they asked if it was appropriate to invest in that artificial intelligence as a weapon of power that, somehow, could become our own enemy.

You have to protect yourself! The 4

It is almost taken for granted that soon the robots will change the labor market.And not only that, they will also be part of the arms industry.Thinking about cyborgs dressed with submachine guns and eyes with equal eyes is something that we are all terrified.

So now tell us...of these four hypotheses about the end of humanity, which do you see most likely? Do you think there may be another risk? Do not hesitate to leave us your comments and remember how the third industrial revolution can affect us.

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