Most science fiction writers and futurists see the future of mankind in a rather gloomy paints - and not without reason. Our attitude to the environment leaves much to be desired, we too thoughtlessly use technologies and increasingly advanced in-destruction. However, there are optimists who distant future is amazing and beautiful. Here are seven of the most optimistic forecasts on the prospects of development of our civilization.


Thatos quo

In the 1990-ies the American political scientist, economist and writer Francis Fukuyama wrote a book "the End of history and the last man" and "the end of the order." He argued that political, technological and economic state of our planet indicate that humanity is approaching a final stop of his trip. He, of course, was wrong. These books were just a dismal response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the talk about the so-called New world order.

A somewhat more realistic assessment of the current situation was formulated as the co-founder of the American manufacturer of hardware and software Sun Microsystems bill joy. Article 2004 "Why don't we need for the future", he wrote about the catastrophic consequences which can lead to the development of such technologies of the 21st century, as robotics, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. Joey says: the most sensible thing mankind can do today is to use what is already there. The only way it can prolong its existence on the planet.

2. Green planet

Far future often seems to us like a Cybertron", encased in steel from edge to edge. This is the worst nightmare "green", where technologies and thoughtless use of natural resources has over everything alive. But who said that everything must be this way? The future of our planet could be much more flourishing than we can imagine. Representatives of "green" futurism believe that we can use high technology in order to cleanse the Land, to create new sources of energy and even to transform the planet itself.

The very first idea of the series was represented by the movement of Bruce Sterling "Green design". This movement advocates the use of innovative technologies for solving environmental problems. According to the forecasts of Sterling, the future of the planet will be much more ecologically diverse than at any other time.

In this future, man himself will change a lot in order to live in complete harmony with the surrounding world. All our energies it will receive from the sources of the Earth and the Sun. Thoroughly study the earth's ecosystems, humanity will change them - for example, put an end to every predation and suffering of animals. And will manage the weather is at its discretion.

And, in the end, we will learn how to prevent all sorts of natural disasters: the fall of the asteroid, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions...

3. Life surrounded by the "machines of grace and love"

Unfortunately, it is likely that the age of technological euphoria will end soon. In about thirty years radically improved and his own intellect machines can get out of our control, then we will not be blamed. But, on the other hand - the one power that can to destroy us, may be for humanity and saving - so say the members of the movement "Singularity".

If future inventors of artificial intelligence will be to set the right goals, believes "the Singularity", the next generation will live among the so-called "friendly robots, programmed to impossibility to cause harm to humans. Moreover, the machine will ensure that nothing bad with us not happened and protect against all possible dangers. Paradise, where the happy future provides for us, artificial intelligence, dedicated an entire poem Richard Brautigan called "watching the machines of grace and love" and the eponymous British film.

4. Where no one has yet been...

It is high time to break away from our little ball and start to colonize other solar system - sure some futurologists. It affects not only our salvation (the idea that you cannot store all your eggs in one basket), this is inherent in the nature - to develop, to move on and conquer new horizons.

Even now, our still timid attempts in space bring us a lot of benefits - technology with the use of satellites and some breakthroughs in science.

How might this colonization? Perhaps it will be something like the probe of a von Neumann - self-replicating spacecraft that will fly in a nearby star system, which will produce for us minerals and create their exact copies, which, in turn, will travel to other star systems with the same purpose.

Still in our Galaxy's interstellar travelers could not see, in this connection there was the so-called "Fermi Paradox", which can be formulated as follows: " Connection widespread belief that in the Universe there are many technologically advanced civilizations, with the absence of any observations which it confirmed, is paradoxical and leads to the conclusion that either our understanding of nature, or our observations are incomplete and erroneous".

So, quite possibly, we will be the first and only civilization with ambitions of the colonialists in the Galaxy.

5. The inner space

Another alternative idea is perfect and serene existence can be achieved by flooding your consciousness in a giant supercomputers. Computers massive computing power - like megastructures called "brain-matryoshka", proposed by Robert Bradbury, will use all the energy potential in the world to operate a computer system.

Or civilization will find a way to build a so-called "Dyson Sphere", which is a relatively thin spherical shell with a star in the center. Thus, we will resolve two of the global problem of living space and energy in abundance can be obtained from the Central star.

6. Eternal bliss

British philosopher David Pearce in his "the Hedonistic imperative" formulated the idea of building a Paradise on Earth, which is to create biological program to get rid of all kinds of violence, suffering and illness.

The emotional life of man shall be regulated by special synthetic drugs (but not drugs) regulate mood. And in the long term should be rewritten in the genome of all vertebrates, that in the animal world there was no longer any pain.

What actually will be our future, nobody knows. One thing is clear - there are a lot of variants of its development, more than today we can even imagine.