The race is on to make the human world a better (and more resilient) place before one of these overwhelms us:

• Autonomous military robots out of control
• Nanotechnology virus / gray slime
• Ethnically targeted virus
• Sterility virus
• Computer virus
• Asteroid impact
• Y2K
• Other unforseen computer failure mode
• Global warming / climate change / flooding
• Nuclear / biological war
• Unexpected economic collapse from Chaos effects
• Terrorism w/ unforseen wide effects
• Out of control bureaucracy (1984)
• Religious / philosophical warfare
• Economic imbalance leading to world war
• Arms race leading to world war
• Zero-point energy tap out of control
• Time-space information system spreading failure effect (Chalker's Zinder Nullifier)
• Unforseen consequences of research (energy, weapons, informational, biological)