The rise of the “one and done” family
BBC - 05-Dec-2025Modern pressures and fertility gaps shape the growing trend of single-child households
Survival
Even when biologically speaking humans can live forever, there are still accidents, violence, natural disasters, etc, that can extinguish life.
Each threat is major topic in its own right but its important to keep an eye on them as the bigger the problem the longer it takes to fix it.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Will it help or destroy us?
Climate Change - technology should come up with solutions but I suggest erring on the side of caution for now
Energy - where is it all going to come from to power technological advances and maybe reverse climate change?
Earth Monitoring - massive monitoring projects to help predict and prevent natural disasters
Natural Disasters - earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami and more
Pandemics - diseases can spread faster than we can produce cures and vaccines
Society - If society doesn’t survive, then you don’t survive… technology giveth, and technology taketh away!
Read more about: Abundance, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate Change, Earth Monitoring, Energy, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, Population, Preppers, Society, Space Colonization, War.
Survival News
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Microsoft calls for a human-centered path to superintelligence
Microsoft AI - 06-Nov-2025Suleyman argues AI must stay powerful but controllable to deliver safe, society-wide benefits
Astroimmunology: how spaceflight alters the human immune system
Buck Institute - 16-Oct-2025Spaceflight weakens immunity, alters microbiome, and reactivates latent viruses in astronauts
Why tech billionaires are building bunkers
BBC - 11-Oct-2025Inside Silicon Valley’s obsession with doomsday prepping and AI-driven anxiety
Survival Resources
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
Book written by Eliezer Yudkowsky which details potential threats posed to humanity by artificial superintelligence
Immortality: The Quest To Live Forever and How It Drives Civilisation
A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains written by Stephen Cave
The Asteroid Threat: Defending Our Planet from Deadly Near-Earth Objects
William E. Burrows presents a realistic, workable plan for defusing a potentially lethal threat from a rogue asteroid or comet
Emigrating Beyond Earth: Human Adaptation and Space Colonization
Book about space colonization with the context of human evolution written by Cameron M. Smith
Outer Space: Problems Of Law And Policy
Book about space colonization and Ameerican legal problems associated with activity in outer space written by Glenn H. Reynolds
Rogue Asteroids and Doomsday Comets
The Search for the Million Megaton Menace That Threatens Life on Earth, written by Duncan Steel
06-Dec-2023
Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
04-Feb-2021
Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65
Comparison of UK mail and clinic tests, plus a review of the Medichecks test
25-Jan-2021
Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
27-Apr-2020
Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion
Interesting thoughts from an international panel of futurists
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