Stephen Hawking is undeniably one of the greatest minds in recent history and his passing left a gaping hole in the academic and scientific communities. He didn't leave the world bereft, however, and even left a corpus of essays and articles for us to munch on for months, even years to come. Some of those, however, are less uplifting than others. The late great physicist has left warnings on the dangers that the human civilization faces in the near future.
Hawking believes that, sooner or later, man will start tinkering with its genes and create a new superhuman generation that would survive nuclear war and climate problems, rendering "regular" humans obsolete and almost extinct. We're likely to see political and social problems that have so far only been hinted at in comics and movies.
