# What will the human race be like in 1000 years?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 1, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775 "2014-06-01T15:48:01Z")
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### Author:  [@Earth001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earth001)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/1 "2014-06-01T15:48:01Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/2 "2014-06-01T16:13:52Z")
Dead. All dead.
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### Author:  [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/3 "2014-06-01T16:24:27Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@EdwardLost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EdwardLost)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/4 "2014-06-01T16:24:27Z")
[This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/5 "2014-06-01T16:31:21Z")
Post-Human Era.
we won’t even be recognizable as Human.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/6 "2014-06-01T16:44:58Z")
> [@EdwardLost](#):
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> [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)
Or, [likewise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons).
I’d argue that we are already there, for the most part.
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### Author:  [@Earth001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earth001)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/7 "2014-06-01T18:17:19Z")
> [@EdwardLost](#):
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> [This](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy)
I thought that this would be very relevant:
[ ](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/idiocracy.png)
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### Author:  [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/8 "2014-06-01T19:00:19Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> we won’t even be recognizable as Human.
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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### Author:  [@markie1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markie1)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/9 "2014-06-01T19:05:17Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#):
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> Or, [likewise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons).
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> I’d argue that we are already there, for the most part.
great to read
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/10 "2014-06-01T19:07:09Z")
> [@Xema](#):
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> 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?
Artificial storage of memories, brain supplementation, artificial intelligence blended with biological intelligence.
Throw in direct genetic manipulation too.
That’s my WAG anyway.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/11 "2014-06-01T19:14:38Z")
> [@Earth001](#):
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> 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?
Do you really think there is a factual answer to that question?
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### Author:  [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/12 "2014-06-01T19:29:24Z")
**Moderator Action**
This requires too much speculation and opinion to be answered factually.
Moving thread from General Questions to In My Humble Opinion.
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/13 "2014-06-01T19:51:51Z")
Another vote for extinct.
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### Author:  [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/14 "2014-06-01T21:08:48Z")
\*\*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.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/15 "2014-06-01T21:42:27Z")
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).
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/16 "2014-06-01T22:44:36Z")
> [@Xema](#):
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> 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?
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> Artificial storage of memories, brain supplementation, artificial intelligence blended with biological intelligence.
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> Throw in direct genetic manipulation too.
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> That’s my WAG anyway.
Bingo.
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### Author:  [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/17 "2014-06-01T23:07:19Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#):
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> 1000 years is nothing in the larger view of history.
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.
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### Author:  [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2014, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/18 "2014-06-02T08:26:48Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#):
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> **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):
> [@How do you cope with your own mortality?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cope-with-your-own-mortality/657444/5):
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> Robert Ringer, author of Winning Through Intimidation and Looking Out For #1 (the second book largely repudiates what he wrote in the first book), offers a philosophy he calls “The Iceball Theorem”:
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> [quoted from memory, so probably not his precise wording]
> A hundred billion [or whatever] years from now, when the Sun is a burned-out shell and Earth is nothing more than a cold frozen ice ball, _none of this will matter._
> [/quoted from memory, so probably not his precise wording]
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> ETA: His second book (mentioned above) is largely similar (even nearly a clone in some parts) of Harry Browne’s How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World.
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### Author:  [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-the-human-race-be-like-in-1000-years/689775/19 "2014-06-02T11:03:04Z")
I’m not sure I want to know.
A time where humans are bred by machines?
A time with no families?
No thanks.