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

Elon Musk has made several grandstanding predictions about when he believes humankind will reach the red planet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

AI will also affect work as we know it, Mr Pichai said, calling it "the most profound technology" humankind had worked on.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

Teddy has a couple theories — the climate is poisoned, the workers are scrambled — which also apply to humankind.

From Los Angeles Times • 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