Well this is depressing but it looks at risk which is central to our business…
The Atlantic……Bostrom, who directs Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, has argued over the course of several papers that human extinction risks are poorly understood and, worse still, severely underestimated by society. Some of these existential risks are fairly well known, especially the natural ones. But others are obscure or even exotic. Most worrying to Bostrom is the subset of existential risks that arise from human technology, a subset that he expects to grow in number and potency over the next century.
An interesting concept put together by an over paid and unproductive career student. Academically he makes some good points by it is still only a prediction.
Nobody can predict the future. Lets face reality, humans are just flesh and blood we are as vulnerable as any other animal that occupies this earth. No animal is a supreme being despite the perceptions canvassed within the various religions. Nature will do what nature does and no man can control it. Its a bit like trading really.