humankind
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We’re not rooting for her or her internet brain-rotted captors and ultimately, we leave the film barely rooting for humankind’s survival.
From Los Angeles Times
Though Stoics believed themselves part of a cosmopolis—a polity of all humankind—it was nonetheless Marcus’ duty to stop those with “simpler minds” from harming that community, writes Mr. Stephens.
Neven reels off the ways he believes this Willow quantum chip will be used "to help with many problems that humankind has now".
From BBC
But it does hint strongly at extraterrestrial visitors being revealed to humankind with a tagline: "If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?"
From BBC
With the emerging developments in AI and molecular genomics, humankind may soon progress from “received” life, generated by natural engineering, to designing and constructing synthetic life that is disconnected from history and heredity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.