“Without the more developed sense of history that only fully flourished in modernity - reflected in the notion of a future potentially utterly unlike the past - there is no room for thinking of perils or promises that outstrip present and past experience.” HistoryExperienceFuture PlansPaleontologyMass ExtinctionCatastrophismExistential Risk Research Book:X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction Source: X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction