Unless we create a time machine sometime in the near future, we will have absolutely NO way of knowing what life will be like in the year 3000. Or the year 4000. We won't even know what life will be like in the year 2150. Doesn't that upset you? At the rate we're going, life will be drastically different in 1,000 years. I would give anything to know what kinds of cool technology will exist in the distant future, or what people will look like, or what everyday life will be like, but I will never know, and neither will you. And no matter how much we cry or beg or scream, there's nothing anybody can do about it.
2006-11-25 14:52:02 · 23 answers · asked by kiki 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It could be a blessing. The future may not be so pleasant!
2006-11-25 14:54:52 · answer #1 · answered by Guitarpix 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life will be different in the next 100 years for that matter. Within the next 50 the climate change that we helped to speed up will be irreversible and usually a climate change is the first step to a mass extinction.
With our technology there is now doubt that we will survive it but will the rest of the creatures of the planet we share?
Do we want to know the future? Will the very knowledge of it change it creating a paradox in which we can never see the future for the very act of it will change what it holds? - A paradox of sorts.
I doubt there will be any "cool" technology; any technology would be solely for survival. There will not be any PlayStation 234 if that is what you’re thinking of.
2006-11-25 15:10:49 · answer #2 · answered by •) (• 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets put it in perspective. How long would it be interesting? Not very long. Just like for us living in this time may seem a drab existence so to would it seem if we were living in the future. I am really intrigued by the past yet I will never see it. I will never smell the air as it was before industrial pollution was introduced. To regret not seeing the future is the same as not seeing the past. I am with you in that I would really like to see it but it seems that may be out of the cards. I also once wished to be one race so I could bond with my "people" yet for some reason I was born as a racially mixed kid who is related to everyone yet fits in nowhere in our modern society. Although I have not yet accepted my predicament, biracial and finite, I am working on it.
P.S. I hear if you meditate you can see it all. The past the future, everything. The power is within you. Do not beg or cry, this is no joke, meditate. I am serious.
2006-11-25 15:06:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Now where's the fun in knowing what will happen in 3000 years?! That's the excitment of life! If we knew what life would be like, how do we know it would happen? Wouldn't time travel in either direction open a parallel universe?
Basically, I think we should just go on living as we do. It's not depressing to be living in the present and only the present--it keeps us sane.
2006-11-25 14:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by FaZizzle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Very much because in our lifetimes humans will still be stupid and ignorant, but I want to see a time when humanity goes beyond its prejudices and advances to other worlds so the whole universe is opened. I also want to be able to see the time when humans will be able to speak to other intelligent beings so different from us that suddenly the small differences between us humans, like skin color and such, don't seem like differences at all, and we finally find that in the universe's eyes we are all the same race, human.
Also it would be nice for us to meet these other creatures with their far more sophisticated weaponry and lives so we get a piece of humble pie.
2006-11-26 09:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by Dee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been said that if we could look 20 years into the future, we would give up!! I don't think I could look into the year 3000 without some degree of sadness.....bacause you would see everything that would happen to your offspring and family members......if would be too overwhelming.
2006-11-25 14:55:19 · answer #6 · answered by Karen A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if that is all you think about, or if you spend a great deal of time on it, yeah, I guess it would be depressing.
More depressing is that you are wasting your time dwelling on something you can't do anything about, and that is not directly affecting you at this moment.
Think about what you care about that you can have an impact now, and go do it.
2006-11-25 14:59:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does it matter what will happen, if we won't be around to experience or enjoy it? As far as I'm concerned, the world ends the moment I die, so there's no need to gaze into the future.
2006-11-25 15:00:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do u want to worry about a future tht far ahead ? There are so many problems in todays world tht one can only worry about them, with no time to worry of the times that far away
2006-11-25 15:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
life in the year 2150... everyone reading this string will be dead. is that less depressing, since you now know the future?
2006-11-25 15:03:32 · answer #10 · answered by more than a hat rack 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋