Not even five hundred years ago, we still used bow and arrows, we used swords and catapults.We advanced from those simple things to guns and missles.We still rode in wagons back then, we now have cars and planes.Technically the only basic designs that has survived is the boat and wagon.
If say in five hundred more years we manage to survive, do you think we would be recycleing our resources, and have inter-steller travels and trade with other life forms?
How far do you think we would evolve, how do you think we could reverse our plimmet into chaos that we are stuck in at this moment.
My own thought on our best chance, is to get rid of greed at least 95% of it in the world.That way we would work together.If all of the greatest minds in the world worked on the same problem all at once, in one hundred years, just about every problem would be solved.
But I want to hear others opinions on this matter.
2007-04-20 04:57:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We have to get our population under control. Down to maybe one billion. That's all that the planet can support with any sort of wealth. I just got back from Bogota Colombia where I saw 7 million people living in poverty while 1 million had all the money.
This is the future of the world where a small group will survive and prosper while the rest starve
2007-04-20 05:09:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We are living on very cheap energy. In a couple hundred years we have used up about 1/2 of the total fossil fuel energy reserves and we are using more and more every year. When that energy is gone, things are going to change drastically. The cost of everything will skyrocket. No cars, no transport trucks, no huge farm tractors producing food, no electricity.
All this while the population rapidly rises to the point where there is not enough food to feed everyone.
The one thing that might help (but maybe it is too late already) would be to not only stop the population growth, but to drastically reduce the population. Humans could live very well for many many 1000s of years if the population was stabilized at about 1 billion instead of 6.5 billion and rising rapidly.
I doubt even the "greatest minds" can convince people that one child per couple until the population drops to 1 billion is the right thing to do.
2007-04-20 12:17:52 · answer #2 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate to say it but I don't think the human race (as we know it right now) will survive that long. It is in our nature to destroy ourselves. Just look at our history and our present.
Also, Earth can only support so many people with its resources. Unless we can find renewable, cheap sources of energy, reduce global warming or advance our technology to leave Earth and safely find other habitable planets, prices will skyrocket and a priviliged few will be able to live while the rest of the population will starve.
Of course everything comes down to money. If the human race can eliminate the accumulation of wealth as the driving factor of our existence, we can band together as a planet to solve our problems.
2007-04-20 13:17:54 · answer #3 · answered by James L 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Great question.
I was actually shocked to learn just last weekend that scientists only discovered what caused craters in the earth in the early 1900's! I saw this on a program on Discovery.
Up until that point, they thought craters in the earth were caused by volcanos and didn't even really know about meteors.
So it seems at this point in time we're living in, we're really not that advanced overall. In some areas we are but not all.
I believe that in 100 years we will much, much more advanced then we are now. And 500 years? Wow...it's fascinating to even think about.
I think humanity will survive, and prosper. Eventually, in the super distant future (billions of years), humans will have to contend with the sun dying and destroying the earth. None of our artifacts from today will have survived to that point, and certainly nothing would after the sun burns everything to a cinder.
I think humans will spread out to other planets kind of like how people left Europe and settled in different countries around the earth. Who knows? Maybe humans will become more divided with the humans that went to one planet going to war with the humans who went to another planet? Or maybe the different planets man settles on will be as easy to travel to as it is for us now to travel to a different State and people will travel freely and be peaceful with one another. I like that idea better!
I dunno but it is interesting to think about!
2007-04-20 12:16:24 · answer #4 · answered by Edward 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In a few hundred years man will possess the ability to destroy himself.
There are thousands who would do it now if they were able.
This may never change and will doom man to an early demise
2007-04-20 13:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nobody can rid the world of something that's apart of human nature. and as for the rest, even if we had the rest of eternity someone has to screw up something somehow. i guess I'm saying that nothing is forever
2007-04-21 14:14:58 · answer #6 · answered by BIG3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. we will all kill each other. we're so stupid. we can't even understand the value of a human life, or in some cases, millions.
2007-04-20 12:18:50 · answer #7 · answered by MMMillicent 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's hope so otherwise why are we still here yet?
2007-04-20 12:05:37 · answer #8 · answered by Lil' Gay Monster 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bloody hell by the time i got to the end of that one i'd lost interest
2007-04-20 12:05:35 · answer #9 · answered by pop 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I think that we will destroy our selves.
2007-04-20 12:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by Wedge 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋