humankind

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Back then, nobody could conceive of humankind being connected by machines that also facilitated our disconnection from each other.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

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 • Dec. 27, 2025

After a signal from space changes the world in a significant way, she must save humankind from happiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025

But, as Mr. Plemons’s Teddy observes, humankind seems to be undergoing its own, independent collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

To ecologists, the great tropical forest in South America was and is the planet’s greatest wilderness, primeval and ancient, an Edenic zone touched by humankind lightly if at all.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann