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Technological singularity, human extinction, etc.
Sure. I wouldn't voluntarily transfer-- I'm accustomed to modern norms-- but I don't think life now is much different from life anytime.
The same life? Certainly not. My profession would very likely be different, as would my beliefs. But a generally equivalent life? Certainly.
Could you expand on that 'etc.'?
Those two items seem to me to completely fill their classes of comparables, so there is no 'cetera'.
Sure-- a full-scale nuclear war that collapsed civilization and technology but didn't actually kill every living human would count.
In terms of less grandiose things, if the actual lived experience of being a human changed dramatically with the the invention of important and novel emotions or social structures, I would consider that a fundamental change. Some argue that this actually happened during the medieval period and that romantic love didn't exist before then, but I'm highly skeptical of this claim for multiple reasons.