Well what do you reckon it’ll be like and what are your specific predictions?
My prediction:
An Gadaían temples will be springing up all around New New Coventry.
All predictions that come through will win the owner 50 trillion Eurodollaryuan.
I predict that lots of progress will have been made on genetic research to make people live longer, resist diseases, and be generally indestructible. Lifespans of multiple hundred years won’t be unheard of in developed countries and health/medical care will look very different than it does today. On the other hand, we will not have made very much of the expected progress in space travel: no permanent moon bases, no orbital cities, no settling other planets, no generation ships. The earth will be insanely crowded with people.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s like Futurama.
obviously i meant to say come true not come through!
Except that there will be a law that every household must own at least one Bender unit.
I’m more optimistic. By 3007 I think we’ll have colonies on the Moon and Mars and space habitats scattered throughout the solar system. However the great majority of humanity will still live on Earth. As far as interstellar colonization goes we’ll have sent a few unmanned (although control by sentient AI) probes to other systems. It’s possible that a few colonization efforts may’ve been launched as well.
I think there will be more changesthan we expect. It won’t be a linear straight-forward change by any means. Here’s one scenario…
- The human population is less.
Rising sea levels, changing climate, and the end of easily-accessible fossil fuels meant the end of the high civilisations of the Oil Age.
Many peoples are living in different parts of the world after the wave of folk migrations in the first half of the third millennium.
For example, many Mexican-speakers moved north as the climate warmed after 1950. They intermarried with English- and French-speakers along the way, and their language continued to diverge from the ancestral Spanish, eventually evolving into Vié Lengo.
During the Warm Years that peaked in the 24th century, the legendary Navigators of the North were largely Lengo-speaking. The influx of Inuktitut and Russian words in Lengo dates from this time, when their largest city was Nuevapolco, the former Iqaluit. Lengo-speaking sailors sailed the north and east coasts of Amerik, and all the way around the Northern Ocean, founding trading posts and cultivating new settlements.
After 2650, the climate cooled somewhat, and Lengo speakers migrated southwards, planting new dryland settlements, farming, raising the great plains beasts, and reclaiming the edge of the deserts. The influence of Zhongwên words as Lengo speakers in Asia migrated south marks the transition to Modern Lengo, now one of the thriving languages of Asia.
A desolate wasteland.
Just like Beyond Thunderdome, except Grace Slick will battle Master Blaster.
And still no flying cars.
An oblate spheroid. Duh
I agree. People living in 1007, or even 1507, would have trouble predicting the world today, so I doubt if we can predict what the world will be like in 3007. But, going on that past experience:
(1) The most widely spoken language will not be English, but some language that is relatively obscure today.
(2) The country (or countries) enjoying hegemony will not be the United States, but a country that does not exist today – possibly a federation of existing countries. I’d guess an East Asian federation, but I may be too short-sighted.
(3) Global population will be down, either because of ecological catastrophe, or because everyone is relatively well off by today’s standards – or even ecological catastrophe, followed by recovery through international cooperation.
(4) We might have permanent bases on the Moon and on Mars, but they will be like today’s permanent bases in Antarctica: scientific personnel rotated in and out, but no permanent population.
Ain’t gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
I suspect mankind will still be around. I think we will have failed to stop AGW and we will have recovered by then. Their will by crazy years and massive fighting again and again. Resources will grow scarce. Somewhere along the way, Fusion will finally be perfected, either a space elevator or magnetic catapult will be built and we will be in space.
There will be far less species than today, but many large preserves will exist. entertainment media will be incomprehensible to us today. Language will evolve but not as much as in the past. The huge numbers of books, magazines, newspaper and the Internet is slowing the rate of gross change in language already (I believe). I suspect there will be fewer languages.
Population will probably be at some rational number that does not consume resources faster than they can be replaced. Agriculture will be heavily gene manipulated.
Humans may well be heavily gene manipulated.
Jim
In late 2049, the holodeck is a reality and all human technological progress stops right there.
The human population plummets as a result of humans dating robots!
Oh… and GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Global whawa?!?
I’m gonna disagree. Today we have science , and with it—science fiction.So, whatever the world looks like in 3007, somebody will have imagined it, in an obscure sci-fi story.
In 1007 or 1507, nobody could have imagined our world. (Leonardo tried to imagine flying machines, but that was as far as anyone got).Nobody imagined electric power or radio or flush toilets.
But today, we know most of the laws of physics. So we can speculate-- about faster than light travel, time travel, wormholes to other dimensions, genetic engineering, quantum computers that somehow hook into our brains and enable telepathy.
My prediction:
By 3007, our most basic understanding of what it means to be a human being will be totally changed. Medical knowlege/genetic engineering will allow some people to live for hundreds of years.We will know how the brain works, and how to plug in an instrument that will read someone’s thoughts and memory banks. So it will be impossible to tell a lie.
All of human existence will be dependent on the smooth functioning of a central government , which individuals will submit to happily.(imagine what would happen today if there was a 2 month electric blackout–mass starvation.Future society will be even more dependent on the central authority.)
Ooooh, that’s quite a statement. I imagine every generation of humanity thinks they’re close to figuring it all out, and if anything, the more you know, the more you know that you don’t know.
Y’know?
I disagree. We can imagine various inventions, but I don’t think we can really imagine how those inventions will change the very way we live.
Except that people may not want to have their innermost thoughts read. So someone would probably invent some kind of brain firewall.
Who knows what country will be in charge? 1000 years ago, Europe was sort of ruled by the Eastern Roman Empire from what is now Turkey. A thousand years from now, the idea of geographically based nation states might be as outdated as the Roman Empire.
The most widely spoken language of 3007 will probally be a hydrid of English and Mandarin.
English, Mandarin, and Spanish.
Or all the Anglos, Chinese, and Spanish will die from a linguistically-tailored disease, and the Basque will rule the world. 
Humanity will have destroyed itself by 3000. In fact, I’m expecting that by 2100, actually, so that would mean a lot of the earth will be a lush paradise again.