The renowned physicist says that our advances in science and technology are only bringing about “new ways things can go wrong.”
Stephen Hawking is (yet again) a harbinger of bad things to come: During the BBC’s yearly Reith Lectures, the physicist said the science and technology advances made by the human race would likely be its undoing. In response to a question about how the world would end, Hawking pointed to nuclear warfare, global warming, and genetically engineered viruses as examples of how man-made threats could bring about its demise.
