Future of mankind

What do you think will happen? I think space settlement seems pretty interesting, though I can't really decide on its likelihood. Space settlement, it seems to me, would also cause humanity to branch off into separate species, since the requirements for life in space are different than on Earth.

With growing population and technology, the future's pretty much open for anything, assuming we don't blow ourselves up too soon.

http://future.wikia.org/ is a nice site on this.

It's almost irresistible for humans to contemplate a Utopian future. The idea of unlimited progress has deeply infected the species. The problem is that this ambition is moving perpendicular to the inadequacies of the human spirit. While humans are unveiling the mechanistic qualities of matter, they are neglecting to confront the limitations imposed by their weakness.