I often think about the future and the impact of technology on society. We have come so far between 1000 AD and 2000 AD. I would like to know what will we be like from. 2000 AD to 3000 AD? Will the world of the future be a better place? Will we be more advanced? How will we change?
Dead. All dead.
Damn it this is GQ! Sorry about that.
There is no way to give you a factual answer to this question. A thousand years ago no one could have imagine the world of today. We could kill ourselves in an act of stupidly or the universe could just say “We’ve had enough of your shit Earth*! Suck on this Pluto size planet!”
Or the rapture of the nerds could actually happen. Who knows?
*The planet, not the OP.
Post-Human Era.
we won’t even be recognizable as Human.
Or, likewise.
I’d argue that we are already there, for the most part.
I thought that this would be very relevant:
We’re very similar (nay, almost identical) to humans that lived 1000 years ago. What will change to make our descendents 1000 years hence so different from us?
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Artificial storage of memories, brain supplementation, artificial intelligence blended with biological intelligence.
Throw in direct genetic manipulation too.
That’s my WAG anyway.
Do you really think there is a factual answer to that question?
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This requires too much speculation and opinion to be answered factually.
Moving thread from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion.
Another vote for extinct.
**What will the human race be like in 1000 years? **
Mostly just like it is now.
There will be differences in the technology. There will be differences in the social customs. There will likely be several major conflicts, wars, during this time that will make modest changes in the society of the day.
But people will still be able to understand these posts, if they can still find them.
1000 years is nothing in the larger view of history.
Those persons who are voting for extinct need to get out of the city more often. The planet is absolutely infested with humans and we are very clever. Only a major impact event that resurfaces the planet will kill us all.
The problem with Humans blended with hardware (more properly termed Cyborgs) is that when a mental illness or bad attitude is nothing more than a software rewrite, we lose a lot of what it is to be Human, and risk a lot more ominous and darker implications about what it is to be Free Willed Individuals (or not, as the case may end up to be).
Bingo.
Depends on whose history you’re talking about. Dinosaurs before and after the big meteor impact had great changes in under 1000 years. Humans went from mostly illiterate subsistence existences to high-tech supersonic lifestyles in a millenium also.
Throw in a technological transcendence of intellect, cognition, and perception, and human history becomes very much a “before” and “after” the event story.
In terms of the solar system, the whole world will be a frozen ball of ice in a few billion years anyway, so perhaps that history won’t change much. But the history I’m concerned with, that of my descendents, could very well transform much more quickly than 1000 years.
This also implies, of course, that it doesn’t make a bit of difference what happens in the short term (meaning even in the next 1000 years) because in the longer term, the earth will just be a frozen ice ball anyway.
This was a point of philosophy made by Robert Ringer in one of his 1970’s-era books (I forget which):
I’m not sure I want to know.
A time where humans are bred by machines?
A time with no families?
No thanks.