The words of the famous cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking have an important resonance in the media field and is not the first time that resonate as a kind of warning to the survival of our species.

In a lecture about the origins of the human being and the universe held last Monday at 'University of Cambridge physicist has expressed an emerging concern for the fate that awaits us: "Most likely there are only a thousand years of mankind life on Earth.
We have made our planet a place too fragile to be able to continue to live there, and the only thing we can do to save us from extinction is certain to build colonies that allow us to survive elsewhere in the solar system. "
StephenHawking draws his conclusions looking at phenomena such as climate change, habitat destruction, overpopulation, global pandemics caused by antibiotic resistance and the 'increased military potential of countries considered dangerous.
"Soon we may also have to deal with some enemies that we would not even remotely suspect the existence.
For this we must continue to explore space, deepen the knowledge of the universe, and thus be able to guarantee a future for our species, "Hawking continues.
Cosmologist estimated to have colonies on Mars that are able to allow a human being to survive will take at least another 100 years.
"The next few decades will be the most critical and we should be very careful how we move" we continue.
"We must remember that humanity tends to repeat the same mistakes in the course of history and the development and deployment of new weapons arsenals could lead to disastrous consequences."
Not surprisingly, the Hawking last year joined a coalition of more than 20 thousand scientists and experts who want to ban smart weapons able to independently take decisions and to fire without the need for any human intervention.
This group have already joined the South African people as the visionary entrepreneur Elon Musk, the founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, and the linguist Noam Chomsky.
According to Hawking, in fact, the 'artificial intelligence (Ia) may be in the future the best, or worst, that's ever happened to humanity.
It will be up to us to decide in which direction to develop it.
A few days ago the Leverhulme Center of the Future of Intelligence of the University of Cambridge, where Hawking teaches mathematics, he has received funding of $ 12 million for the development of research projects that are able to increase the potential of artificial intelligence, but doing particular attention to the risks involved.
"We can not predict what we can achieve when our minds will be strengthened by the AI computing power," says Hawking.
"Maybe with the tools of this technological revolution we might be able to solve the enormous damage done to our planet and put an end to disease and poverty."
StephenHawking ended his lecture with an optimistic vein: "The 2016 was a fantastic year for being alive and witness the advances in theoretical physics.
Remember to look up at the stars, and not down at your feet.
Try to make sense of what you see and ask yourself what makes the universe exist.
Be curious.
For any difficulty encounter in your path, remember that there will always be a way to overcome it.
The important thing is to never give up. "

From Wired