Great Cataclysm

It's pretty obvious that the future cannot happen due to unsustainable advancements in technology. According to scholars, this is to be expected as everything moves in a cycle -- human civilization cycle (from first settlements to collapse from unsustainable advancement) is 10,000 years. At which point the great cataclysm comes to cleanse the Earth and begin us on our journey of pointless growth again. We are reaching that point shortly, so what do you think that cataclysm will be? Jew mind virus? Sun pulse? Great deluge?

>>7
The dark ages weren't "dark" (in the sense of "not being illuminated by knowledge"), the knowledge developed during our cycle was maintained and expanded on in the dark ages.

But the end of a cycle of humanity is marked by the tremendous cataclysm that wipes the slate of knowledge clean -- save for a few tidbits passed on by survivors hopefully. Humanity must begin anew each time, relearning the secrets of reality such as the Fibonacci sequence.

>>10
That is actually an unanswered question. What we do know is that the ancients from the prior cycle were able to measure longitude and latitude (suggesting an extremely sophisticated time keeping ability) and most of the myths related to survivors of the great flood say that they had unlocked the secrets of biological development -- leading many scholars to suspect they developed complex machines out of plant matter, growing computers instead of building them if you will.