A fair warning, but I don't think anybody was worrying about this kind of far future anyway. Just adjusting and staying relevant in our fast-paced world requir

A fair warning, but I don't think anybody was worrying about this kind of far future anyway. Just adjusting and staying relevant in our fast-paced world requires an increasingly short term focus, if anything. Paycheck to paycheck and business quarter to business quarter. Further, many people aren't very hopeful for the future as everything seems to be breaking down. We're also absolutely terrible at even "short term" problems. Climate change was warned about since the 70s. We had decades to curb it but did nothing. We can foresee population booms as well as aging decades before they happen but again do absolutely nothing. We're a short term species. And getting even more short term. Instant gratification and all that. Personally, I don't care at all about the prospect of people populating the galaxy. Imagine the mess they make. It wouldn't be long before the sky looked like an ad.