Futurology
Cyborg
A cyborg (short for "cybernetic organism") is a being with both organic and biomechatronic body parts. The term was coined…
Robot ethics
Robot ethics, sometimes known by the short expression "roboethics", concerns ethical problems that occur with robots, such as whether robots…
Emerging technologies
Emerging technologies are technologies that are perceived as capable of changing the status quo. These technologies are generally new but…
Water scarcity
Water scarcity is the lack of fresh water resources to meet water demand. It affects every continent and was listed…
Peak oil prediction
Peak oil is the temporal maximum of the world crude oil production rate . The concept of a maximum oil…
Non-anthropogenic global catastrophic risk
The notion of risk of disaster planetary or global catastrophe is introduced in 2008 by the philosopher Nick Bostrom to…
Anthropogenic global catastrophic risk
A global catastrophic risk is a hypothetical future event which could damage human well-being on a global scale, even crippling…