Societal Collapse and the Fermi Paradox

Dr Stuart Woolley
5 min readOct 4, 2020

Has the advent of mass communication combined with a raging pandemic brought upon us a very real Great Filter?

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The Great Filter

The Fermi paradox, named for the physicist Enrico Fermi, describes the apparent contradiction between the vastness of the universe and the probability of their being detectable life in it versus our inability to detect any actual sign…

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Dr Stuart Woolley

Worries about the future. Way too involved with software. Likes coffee, maths, and . Would prefer to be in academia. SpaceX, Twitter, and Overwatch fan.