What would life on Earth be like a million or two years from now?

Question

Everyone is talking about the here and now but I am concerned about the future and what people are going to evolve into, and what might replace people when they can no longer cut the mustard.

Answer 1

I believe people will begin controlling our own evolution using genetic engineering and cybernetics. This ofcourse is over the next million years. We will also learn things about physics, biochemistry and engineering that are as amazing as the air plane would have been to Leonardo Davinci. If we are stupid and destroy ourselfs than chances are what will survive are rats and cockroaches and perhaps some bottom dwelling ocean critters. Intelligence is only one possible path of evolution out of thousands, so I doubt rats or cockroaches will become anything more than better survivors. In a million years perhaps our civilization will be perfect, we will be able to create and build strings, have computers with energy output and data gathering akin to black holes, and build our own solar systems and dyson sphere`s. Whatever happens, I am sure it will be interesting.

Answer 2

I think this is a very interesting question. I feel that within the next few thousand years, humanity will leave Earth completely and spread out through the galaxy. Earth will be left to return to its natural state, and life will continue to evolve here. It took us about 7 million years to evolve from chimplike ancestors but it is really hard to know if another human like creature would eventually come about again here. Certainly as long as we are still dominating this planet, it will not happen. But as the great baseball catcher Yogi Berra once said, "The trouble with predicting the future is that it is really hard", and I agree with Yogi.

Answer 3

Depends on what we do, & on what those who come after us do.

A million years is alot of time for things to change.

If sperm counts keep dropping as fast as they have been over the last 50 years, this will not be a human problem a long time before the 100 000th year rolls around, much less a million.

Insects vastly outnumber us already, and they do what they do very well without intelligence.

;-)

Answer 4

Very different and weird. I mean, a hundered years ago, tell a person we'll be living in space, and they'd lock us in mental prisons. Who knows what will happen. Get into this topic, I luv it. Anyways, read, "The Supernaturalist" by Eoin Colfer or something. It'll give you an idea. Or maybe, ''Farenhit 451" by Ray Bradbury. Its up to your imagination and thought.

Answer 5

I Think you would see silver with high gizmos like escalators in everyhouse, automated maids sorta like the show "The jetsons" with funky clean and simplke clothing weird beaty music and portable dishwashers!
LOL, the world 100 million years from now would be absolutely amazing, but to remember the earth is suppose to blow up, im not to sure how many years from now but ya, so to much hard work many not be needed.

but hey its the 21st century lets live up our life and not someone else's! :)

Answer 6

I think that you don't have to worry about our planet sustaining life for a million years. Let's worry about the next 50.

Our environment is pouched.

Answer 7

There will be no life on Earth million years from now. Earth will be just another "dead" planet

Answer 8

ever heared of the movie planet of the apes? we keep acting like we do and that might just be what happens to us...

Answer 9

Anyway, we wont be there, why bother in a million years.

Answer 10

dinosaurs would have re-evolved and ate all humans