E-Mail IMAGE: Launch of SM-3 Block IB interceptor from guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). view more Credit: U.S. Navy From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to nuclear annihilation, life on Earth could radically change, and soon. Scientists will forecast the fate of the planet at a press conference during the 2021 APS April Meeting. "Our Earth is 45 million centuries old. But this century is the first when one species--ours--can determine the biosphere's fate," said Martin Rees, the United Kingdom's Astronomer Royal and a founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risks at Cambridge University. "Our globally-linked society is vulnerable to the unintended consequences of powerful new technologies--not only nuclear, but (even more) biotech, cyber, advanced AI, space technology," he added.