Blessed are the poor in spirit: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven

Abstract

A long-term knowledge perspective: the rise and fall of Hominids. An entertaining sketch of Hominids success story while acquiring more and more knowledge, which is inevitably leading into a future disaster! Thanks to their unlimited knowledge gathering ability, humans have generated an impressive track record in terms of global spread and world domination over other living creatures. This human success story - compared to the time scale of evolution - developed so incredibly fast that it seems as if it had just happened over night! But humans are likely to disappear faster from this planet than they commonly believe. The ongoing inability to use and exploit the unique human gift of reasoning is likely to make us fail and vanish. However, our irrational optimism and sense of humour will remain, as expressed in a popular French song All is well, Madame the Marquise from 1935, in which a devastating domino effect is triggered by a spark. © 2010 Gabler Verlag | GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden.