Who will be closest regarding what life James Webb finds.

[highdimensionman]

Your optimism is unwarranted.   We will totally screw that up.

We're not clever enough to screw up our own extinction. It's already underway. And accelerating.

Boru

In all honesty were more lightly to screw up and go into another dark ages. All it takes is for man to screw up enough and the cultural pressure backwards will be unstoppable. I think this sort of issue of screwing up and going backwards is common place in the early development off civilisation more so than total annihilation. So my bet is with Anomalocaris we will lightly totally screw up annihilating ourselves. Just think how easy it would be to go backwards right now if Russia started launching nukes the people would survive but given a significant enough amount of damage people could start to perceive progress more as the enemy. If we don't go this way we still may improve over a more intensive fossil fuel era but people shouldn't count their chickens on man not screwing up.