The opposite view is shortterminism, live for today and don't worry if there will be a future (any future, at least for mankind, not those in particular that he

The opposite view is shortterminism, live for today and don't worry if there will be a future (any future, at least for mankind, not those in particular that he describes), nor take action against anything that may be a threat for our survival.. Digital, posthuman, galactic empire futures may or not happen. There may be serious practical bumps in the road. Digital existence seemed nice in some positive fiction works (like in Greg Egan's Permutation City) until I've read Lena ( https://qntm.org/lena https://qntm.org/lena ), and that assuming that it will be possible or desirable at all. The same goes with unseen possibilities that our current stage of development may not see as an idea, even our today's world with everyone connected with internet sharing their lives was something with little or no fiction covering it not so long into the past. In the other hand, having no future not only erases those weird speculations that may not happens, but also the past, a tree falling in a desert forest doesn't make sound, after mankind is gone things will be as we never existed, all we did never happened.