You Might Want To Enjoy The Long Weekend Because The Human Race Will Soon Be Extinct (Apparently…)

You might want to enjoy the upcoming long weekend because according to some new research, we’re likely to become extinct in the near future. Depressing, huh?

Yahoo reports that a theme of mathematicians, philosophers and scientists at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute say that there is a LOT of evidence that our reliance on technology could in fact destroy us (and you thought those people ranting about Facebook being evil were crazy...)

Anyway, the institute has released a cheery paper entitled Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.  This paper argues that technology is posing a massive risk to our existence as a species.

“There is a great reace on between humanity’s technological powers and our wisdom to use these powers well,” said Nick Bostrom, the director of the institute.

“I’m worried that the former will pull too far ahead,” he added.

Is Facebook likely to overthrow our Governments and rule the world?

In fairness, Facebook does look a little shifty these days. We reckon it won’t be long before Mark Zuckerberg takes over the world and we’re all forced to ‘like’ things and ‘poke’ stuff and accept friend requests from people that we really don’t like.

Anyway, if technology does end up taking over the world, here are five types of technology that we hope we don’t have to kill off in order to survive as a race.

1. Smart phones: How annoying would it be if we didn’t have smart phones? We wouldn’t be able to Google stuff on the go, we’d have to actually speak to people face-to-face and honestly? How would we use up all our free time?!

2. Computers: Without computers and smart phones we’d have no way of accessing the internet. We also wouldn’t have any way of updating this website, which would make us all very, very sad.

3. Hair straighteners: Nooooooooooooooooo!

4. Television: We’d never find out how our favourite programme ends and we wouldn’t be able to keep up with the Kardashians or the Made In Chelsea crew. Heart breaking.

5. Sat nav: How will we know where we’re supposed to go?!