Future Highways: Three Possible Futures for the Human Race

There are three primary highways our future can take and an infinite number of detours possible along each path. The greatest number of these possibilities are just a repetition of our past, with enumerable rises and falls along the way (the higher the rise the harder the fall), spanning into the distant future. In this grouping of possibilities the present level of our civilization would be nothing more than a blip in history, receding in importance with the passage of time, probably acquiring the status of legend and myth, as did the Roman Empire throughout the subsequent dark ages.