Many experts think it could happen far sooner if we simply continue with the status quo. Looking back from such a vantage point, if anyone will even be able to do that, who then will seem to be the ‘winners’ of history? Will history have made losers of us all? Would the ‘fittest’ have found an exit route, some way to terraform other parts of the solar system, founding colonies on Mars or Venus that resemble Palo Alto, or even Massachusetts?
This proposition sounds crazy, but not when you consider this is what humans have been doing since the beginning of time. When you go so far into history, the patterns of civilization and society become very apparent, yet maybe not much easier to avoid.