[Rummyfan]

I agree. We are on the cusp of amazing breakthroughs everywhere. Will we get through the craziness to the broad sunlit uplands?

[Jim W N]

Wait’ll you see what they say when Christ catches up believers out of the world and into Heaven - coming soon to your neighborhood.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

I largely agree too. In the past, civilizational collapses were mostly limited to continents or a part of a continent (Gupta, Mayan, Ming).

The next collapse will be more global and widespread, so the stakes are higher.

[plain talk]

There have been numerous eras that were the “most pivotal in human history” compared to their past.

There will be countless future eras that will be the “most pivotal in human history” - whatever that means.

[Navy Patriot]

This Era Is the Most Pivotal in Human History

Just wait till next year!

[Nervous Tick]

The most pivotal year in human history is the year the crucified Christ arose from the grave.

Apart from creation week, nothing else in human history has — or will ever — come even close to that truly pivotal event.

[imabadboy99]

Will Christendom succumb to the relentless attacks from traitors within and invaders from the outside, or will the next generation reclaim what the 60s hippies and the commie leftists have torn asunder in the last 60 years?

Christendom must rid itself of the numerous domestic enemies before it can deal with the hostile invaders.

[GingisK]

I don’t agree. Civilization collapse has already happened several times before this one.

[Billthedrill]

I wouldn't presume to make this period in history the "most" anything but it certainly is very interesting. When people use the term "pivotal" they are usually referring to an event or events that recognizably alter the historical narrative; this leaves little room for the notion that what did not happen might be equally pivotal.

What did not happen was that a heavily armed and bipolar world found that total war meant total or near total annihilation and stepped back. That is unprecedented in recorded history and is cause for considerable reflection. A Rand calculation in the 1980's predicted an 85% chance of nuclear exchange within 20 years. Didn't happen. Might happen yet but it didn't.

How we deal with "artificial" intelligence (the phrase will be obsolete in 20 years) will be a challenge but in fact is only the logical consequence of the pervasion of individual technology and its incorporation into a fabric of connectivity that has already taken the planet by storm. It may require the same level of circumspection that the atom bomb did. We're either up to it or we perish. In short, nothing has really changed.