it is my belief that homo sapiens will be critically endangered within the next couple centuries due to technological advancements so great that at least one new super species is created. provided that none of the other exit mundi scenarios befall us. this may be in the form of genetic manipulations to the point that we are no longer the same species, artificial intelligence with free thought in the same manner we wield it but with colossally greater computing power and thus they become higher on the evolutionary chain that us, or integration of machines/internet into our minds or something.

i bet that if we ever came across a substantially more advanced civilization it would be purely mechanized and infused into one giant web of being, and would have been the technological offspring of an organic species. i imagine AI is the beginning of the end because a computer capable of learning and adapt to its surroundings will be more capable to create even better AI, and increases in technology will be more exponential than linear as it is now. now we humans are working off of material gathered by previous humans of the same intelligences, however, soon enough AI will be able to create better AI which could create even better AI and on and on to the point that some AI species with 100k IQ reigns supreme.

what say you?