By year 3000, all humans will be coffee-coloured. What do you think?

Answer 1

just how much cream is in that coffee? ;-)

Answer 2

That is true because of global warming. The atmosphere is becoming thinner the days more hotter and the more scorching. Little by little starting today human skin will become darker and the year 3000 coffee colored.

Answer 3

I doubt it. There will be many more people who are but there will always be some on either end of the spectrum. Some people are genetically isolated, not because of any particular prejudice but simply because people generally pair off with people from their own geographic area and who speak the same language. There are very few white or Asian people who travel to the poorer parts of Africa to find a partner. Even today, a Chinese villager is unlikely to meet more than a couple of people in a lifetime who are not Asian.

My brother lives in South Korea. Almost every day, he has someone trying to touch the hair on his arms or calling him a giant (he's only 5'11"). Racial jokes are acceptable and prejudices abound, especially about blacks. South Korea is not the hermit kigdom it once was (the North seems to be trying to reclaim that title) but it is far from ready to accept interracial marriage on a widespread scale.

Answer 4

i think that people have been able to travel (ok, not as easily as today, but still) for tens of thousands of years. and in spite of this you still have some pretty strong variations of skin colour (and race).

personally I couldn't care less. What bugs me though, is that generally people who ask this are racists, or "white supremacists", people who "worry about the dilution of races".

but again, i very, very much doubt that you could arrive at some general harmonisation of the skin colour (and race), you'd need to manage the process top down to have any chance, and it would be a huge challenge.

Answer 5

Before leaping forward 1000 years, let's step back 1000 years just to do a recap:


Speculation that the world will end in the year 1000 is confined to a few uneasy French monks.

Western Europe remains a backwater compared to the Byzantine Empire, with was what remained of the classical civilization, the Islamic civilization, with its vast network of caravan trade, or China, at this time the world's most populous and magnificent empire under the Song dynasty.

Constantinople has a population of about 300,000, but Rome has a mere 35,000 and Paris 20,000. In contrast, Islam has over a dozen major cities stretching from Cordoba, Spain, at this time the world's largest city with 450,000 inhabitants, to central Asia.

The Vikings have a trade network in northern Europe, including a route connecting the Baltic to Constantinople through Russia. But it is modest affair compared to the caravan routes that connect the great Islamic cities of Cordoba, Alexandria, Cairo, Baghdad, Basra, and Mecca.

With nearly the entire nation freshly ravaged by the Vikings, England is in a desperate state. Worse is on the way. The long-suffering English will respond with a massacre of Danish settlers in 1002, leading to a round of reprisals and finally to Danish rule (1013).

But Christianization is making rapid progress and will prove itself the long-term solution to the problem of barbarian raiding. Scandinavia is recently Christianized and the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark established.

The Principality of Russia, with its capital in Kiev, was recently converted to Orthodox Christianity. Iceland and Hungary were both declared Christian about AD 1000.

In Europe, marriage is now established among the nobility. North of Italy, where masonry construction was never extinguished, stone construction was replacing timber in important structures. Deforestation of the densely wooded continent was under way.

The tenth century marked a return of urban life, with the Italian cities doubling in population. London, abandoned for many centuries, was by 1000 once again England's main economic center. By 1000, Bruges and Ghent are holding regular trade fairs behind castle walls, a tentative return of economic life to western Europe. (source: wikipedia)


So, by 3000, will all humans be coffee-coloured? I don't think so.


"If in the year 1000 the smartest people had predicted what the world would be like in the year 2000, it would have seemed a joke.

We think we're much smarter today--more in tune with the universal music of truth. So we now imagine the year 3000.

Life spans of hundreds of years, with homegrown body parts and chips for brains.

Abundant, clean energy from the sun and a safe, inexhaustible source of power in nuclear fusion.

Computers doing all the work--unobtrusively, thank you.

Colonies on a greened Mars or perhaps on planets of nearby stars, with intergalactic ships heading out into the great beyond.

Who knows? But what I find more fascinating is that we humans seem compelled to imagine the far future.

We are beings who comprehend time and its flowing passage, who project our mind's eye and envision epochs long before our births and long after our deaths.

That such a time-sensitive, self-aware being exists at all somehow makes me wonder about the far future.

Could something unexpected, really unexpected, occur before the year 3000?

I'd give it--just a hunch here--a three out of ten: thirty percent.

One wonders whether Y3K will find humanity any closer to truth." (Source: http://www.closertotruth.com/topics/technologysociety/201/201transcript.html)

Answer 6

I doubt humans will be around for another thousand years at the rate we are multiplying the earth won't be able to sustain us for that much longer

Answer 7

I think it's true, maybe apart from a few small minorities who want to preserve the so-called 'purity' of their bloodline. It is a possibility. It would be an interesting time.

Answer 8

I think we would have developed a green colour, due to all the chemicals in the atmosphere and need to live in harnasses all the time....

Answer 9

Hate to make predictions, you never know what stupidity people might get up to.

I was thinking more of a caramel color.

Answer 10

I doubt it. That's retrogration.

Means that our machines are not good to keep the Sun away.

Answer 11

Good possibility