if there's anything we're really approaching it's another major war

everything else is just a big advertisement campaign and not really relevant to civilization development.

You may have a negative view on such things because of the actions currently being taken by the Russian government but I doubt even Russia would be stupid enough to start a global conflict.

This doesn't mean there won't be conflicts, the world is full of inequality and social problems, but I don't think any sort of major global conflict between nations will happen.

Where I live I see the future everyday.

The next couple decades will most likely cause large scale economic problems due to advances in automation, this is not advertising or irrelevant it is a world changing advance that is happening today.

Some people are still living in delusions provided by their conservative views on reality

Machines may possibly free a lot of people of their jobs, but in the end it might as well contribute a great amount of manpower to armies of factions that wish to rule through violence, not peace.

but at the end of it there is a part that tries to convince people that situation isn't that bad and there are programs to coupe with these issues, but even they are having fatal flaws are now obvious to me.

Care to elaborate?

Machines for war is an inevitability.

My own assumption is that through biotech, nanotech, and advances in AI we will be able to solve most, if not all, of the issues we currently face.

Jeff Funk, Associate Professor at National University of Singapore, makes some projections and analysis of Neuromorphic chips.

The presentation describes the advantages and disadvantages of synaptic chips when compared to conventional chips and how rapid rates of progress in speed, density, and power efficiency are making synaptic chips economically feasible for supercomputing applications. The biggest disadvantage for synaptic chips is in software; a new operating system and application software are needed.

Jeff believes there will be applications for image recognition and visual assistance for the blind and for improved health monitoring.

A 28-year-old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade as a result of a spinal cord injury has become the first person to be able to “feel” physical sensations through a prosthetic hand directly connected to his brain, and even identify which mechanical finger is being gently touched.

The advance, made possible by sophisticated neural technologies developed under DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics points to a future in which people living with paralyzed or missing limbs will not only be able to manipulate objects by sending signals from their brain to robotic devices, but also be able to sense precisely what those devices are touching.

BioViva USA, Inc. has become the first company to treat a person with gene therapy to reverse biological aging, using a combination of two therapies developed and applied outside the United States of America. Testing and research on these therapies is continuing in BioViva’s affiliated labs worldwide.

IBM Research today announced a major engineering breakthrough that could accelerate carbon nanotubes replacing silicon transistors to power future computing technologies.

IBM scientists demonstrated a new way to shrink transistor contacts without reducing performance of carbon nanotube devices, opening a pathway to dramatically faster, smaller and more powerful computer chips beyond the capabilities of traditional semiconductors. The results will be reported in the October 2 issue of Science.

The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015.

The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25.

It forecasts that the proportion of the world's population in this category will fall from 12.8% in 2012 to 9.6%.

Reducing poverty in the East Asia and Pacific region was highlighted as being key to global progress.

In the region, 82.6 million are projected to be living in extreme poverty by the end of this year, representing a fall from 7.2% of the population in 2012 to 4.1%.

In 1990, 60% of the area's population (999.2 million) lived in extreme poverty.

World Bank: Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%'

The bank said it was using a new income figure of $1.90 per day to define extreme poverty, up from $1.25.

Which is not even feasible because of inflation values of dollar and drop in purchasing power. Even if they are true (it is a big question in itself because these numbers are being supervised by the same World Bank), the inflation since 1990 is at least 87%, which means that actual "extreme poverty" level have risen since that year from 1.25$ to 2.33$.