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So, after regaining the possession of Fallout 3 from my friend who has borrowed it for far too long. I took my time to begin the game again, of course since I last played it I have become much more interested in the storyline of games. Looking at the detailed history they represented in the game as a divergence from our reality (Sometime after WWII), the parts about the energy crisis and over-consumption of resources reminded me of the current problems we are having.

It seems to me that an apocalyptic event is actually far more likely than my optimistic mindset of the future likes to tell me. As a person very interested in transhumanism, this is a large problem. If such a setting occurs and our species is wiped out, then the only known intelligence in the universe is wiped out and we will never advance to post-human states; achieving minds and intelligence beyond our comprehension. A strange and curious goal to some, but that's what I want to achieve. It's not some pre-destined path that I believe is inevitable for beings to gain, but what I truly want intelligence within this universe to gain.

Of course back to the idea of a post-apocalyptic setting. Lets say a large cataclysm scars the earth, destroying a large amount of biodiversity and turns human civilisation into warring clans with feeble technology and partial remnants of the world that once was. How are we ever going to get to a state where we can use technology to enhance ourselves? Resources would be dry, living would be about surviving not advancing. It would either completely prevent our possibility of becoming something 'more, or just make it impossible.

Will we let ourselves rot in our own vile and covetousness nature; or become gods of men?