What sort of technologies will there be?
Will the nation state as we know it still exist?
Will humans evolve into a technological singularity?
2007-05-22 03:46:58 · 9 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Wahoo for an interesting question!
I think there are at least two possibilities: one, technology speeds up so much that we can overcome any biological/ecological deficiencies; two, people can't stand living with each other and we kill ourselves off.
If you think about the rate at which technology is improving, it's not unlikely to believe that we'll be able to control our own physiology and the planet's health with it. Nanotechnology is growing rapidly; prices are falling and capabilities are rising. I'm betting that within 100 years (at most - probably more like 40), we'll be able to cure diseases, think on a ridiculously higher level, and provide food for anyone who wants it. Technology will be everywhere: in our showers, in the walls and in our brains. As for overall society, that's unpredictable. We'll be dealing with a new state of consciousness. Either we'll work together (laughable given human history), or we'll continue to try and beat the other man.
So, this IS a technological singularity.
The other outlook is death to all humans. I hope this doesn't mean death to the planet. Will humans be sensible enough to leave other forms of life as they are? Probably not, as indiscriminate killing seems to be all the rage these days. Maybe some people will survive and build a new society - that's really cliche, my apologies.
Of course, there could be a happy (ignorant) medium. Maybe people will stop having faith in technology, and we'll be a bunch of hippies - like a huge Ancient Greece. That wouldn't be so bad, and no one would care if you were homosexual.
2007-05-22 15:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by Sci Fi Insomniac 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world is changing so fast I believe the human species will find a way to wake everyone up and we will rally to find a better way to live. The human race as whole will be considered one family and peace on Earth will be shared and honoured throughout future generations.
We just need to find our game and then take home the trophy.
Time is on our side.
2007-05-26 07:38:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Petroleum runs dry by 2050 latest. Coal runs out by 2500 latest. In the year 3000 the world's resources will be utterly exhausted in all venues. Cities will have been demolished to recover their reduced metals. The world will look like North America prior to European discovery - Neolithic hunter-gatherer nomads dying early and often.
Overall planetary human population will be 100 million or so sickly undernourished people (including chubby priests issuing threats of damnation and promises of afterlife in mythical cities. "'Hodie mihi, cras tibi!' or be damned", they will scream).
2007-05-22 12:49:06 · answer #3 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The world is moving fast towards its end i don't thing there will be any human to see what happens even after 100 years.
2007-05-23 06:52:18 · answer #4 · answered by PHP 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cars will run off of air
They will drive in it too
We will all have moved to Canada
Haven't evolved thus far and don't assume we will
2007-05-22 11:48:13 · answer #5 · answered by bernel1403 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
with the way humans are we won't have an eartth in a 1000 years
2007-05-22 12:18:36 · answer #6 · answered by Big D 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the earth would be here anymore...
Human would become extinct by then... unless something is done to save the earth now...
2007-05-22 11:26:50 · answer #7 · answered by godrics 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will look like it been hit with a giant asteroid and dinosaurs will rule once more.
2007-05-22 10:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't feel we will be on earth
2007-05-22 11:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by DENISE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋