Quiet Armageddon:

Every day it looks less and less like mankind's Armageddon is going to be a violent event as predicted in the Bible.

It will happen quietly. So quietly, in fact,  that we will not see it coming.

It has begun already. It is a slow process. Every time we improve our technology, it reduces our evolution over the millennia by  another notch.

Instead of making our lives a little easier, improvements in technology reduce our need for abilities which the process of natural selection has developed in us.

There are many examples all around us, but the most obvious at the moment is what's happening to our cars. Those self-driving cars with technology that threatens to replace all human input are a real horror story.

Every time the engineers make an improvement in a car that does things better than its driver, that driver becomes a little more redundant, simply because it is no longer necessary for him to be smart, or vigilant, or watchful, or co-ordinated, or even awake in transit.

There are people out there who think our electronic gadgetry is just great. They see a rosy future full of leisure where our electronic technology is going to prevent us from risking our lives in highway situations, crossing streets or in our homes.

Never does it enter their minds that these new developments will also prevent people from developing any survival skills. The real horror stories are those where unevolved, incompetent people will still go on and reproduce, passing on those questionable genetics to future generations.

If these technological "improvements" continue, as they are almost guaranteed to do, we will eventually replace ourselves with our technology, which is programmed to do things correctly with no effort, no thinking involved.

Thus, survival of the fittest will be neutralized. Any individual, regardless how incompetent, will be able to survive with the aid of technology.

Our planet will eventually become populated by incompetents, digitoids and mechanoids. Our future generations will quietly dwindle and disappear unspectacularly, unchallenged.