1,000 years from now

[IglooDame]

Given the seemingly constant acceleration of technological change, I'd think that a thousand years from now the Sol system will be mostly settled and we'll have explored and colonized (or at least have many ships on the way to) other star systems. It was only ~200 years ago that humanity figured out steam engines, and ~100 years ago that humanity figured out powered flight.

 

[Guangxi]

either all dead, mostly depopulated, or technocratic paradise.

 

[cthom]

in 1,000 years a lot of relatives of cryogenically frozen ancestors will be looking for full refunds i think it will be business as usual, but with more gadgets. video forums?

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

In 1000 years, people will be worrying that "the end is near." Just like they are today and 1000 years ago.

 

[JohnRM]

Why are people being so pessimistic? Why can't the future be bright and progessive?

Actually, you mistake my optimism for pessimism. I can only hope that a lot of people die in the near future. It is the only way that the rest of us can survive. There are too many people on this planet. We need a "great re-organization" in order for there to be a future in 1,000 years. Of course, there could be some kind of miracle in which we can terra-form Mars and dump four billion people on it, but I doubt that, very much.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm hoping resveratrol will save my parents' generation, I don't know if we'll need it to save mine.

Does anyone here foresee a future where the world will still be having the same religious and political problems as today. Still waiting for a Messiah or prophet or some other great holy war to end all wars?

Does anyone think that there will be an end of some kind coming or just a perpetual rehashing of everything over and over and over again?

My prediction, and it's my opinion only, is that the current religions will be decimated well before this period of time comes. I'm pretty sure that within 50 years, we'll have soundly proven that the 'spiritual response to prayer' is a solely internally-driven response*. This means that most religions that rely on prayer as a form of enlightenment will have had the heels knocked out from under them.

Of course, faiths will continue to mutate to survive the onslaught of facts.

*I know it's tough to point out how this will be proven, but I might have an example. We have people who can pray to get an effect and a response to their prayers. I suspect that brain-scanning will allow us to predict what the prayer-response will be before the person knows either what they're praying for or what the answer is. This is because (I'm merely predicting) that the prayer response is a response that's factored heavily by our subconscious responding to previous patterns.

For example, we could hook up Osama to an fMRI before he starts praying. After a short examination we could predict "10% chance that he will not feel a response, 90% chance his prayers will tell him to kill the jews." We he feels the sensation that he should kill the jews, we can show him the prediction.

 

[Elrohir]

In my opinion, either "Jesus will come back", a la Left Behind, or humanity will have expanded to the stars, or we'll all be dead from a nuclear war.

Why are people being so pessimistic? Why can't the future be bright and progessive?

Because people suck, and they're probably going to keep sucking for all of time?

 

[Kozmos]

God was a dream of a good government. We will soon have our God and we will make it with our own hands.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Well, believe it or not, today there are many of us who don't waste our time waiting for messiahs or prophets (though, maybe profits).

But, yes. I am sure that if there is a humanity (probably), then there will be a some religious "dynamism" with origins in today's religions.

 

[Shylock]

In the year 3000!

We'll be locked within a global dystopia, the government is everywhere. In fact everyone is a slave of a the government.

 

[Leonel]

I suppose we'll have significantly calmed the heck down in 1000 years. There will probably be religious people and non-religious people but they won't be jerks to each other about it.

 

[Love]

Or the pope role is gone...

 

[TheDervish]

Does anyone here foresee a future where the world will still be having the same religious and political problems as today. Still waiting for a Messiah or prophet or some other great holy war to end all wars?

Everyone will be a messiah. But the word will be taken in the context of Richard Bach's Illusions.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

There is no expiration date on human nature . . .

But maybe, there will be a technology/population "crash" and we will be back to a few small, isolated hunter-gatherer communities. Only this time, we won't have the resources to grow technologically because we used them all up the first time around.

 

[Nylan]

*Probably* the world will have gone through the Second Coming.

If not yet, then there will be extreme polarization (which is starting anyways) between the moral and the immoral

 

[Perfection]

Given the seemingly constant acceleration of technological change

Constant acceleration?! Heck no! Accelerating acceleration!

 

[El_Machinae]

*Probably* the world will have gone through the Second Coming.

If not yet, then there will be extreme polarization (which is starting anyways) between the moral and the immoral

You mean mortal and immortal, right?

 

[Nylan]

You mean mortal and immortal, right?

Well, I suppose that too...to the extent of the immoral anyways.

 

[scy12]

I think 1000 years can not in any way be predicted by us. I would like a more closer future predictions like 200 years from now. It is still impossible to predict accurately but we can make some conclusions easier than a 1000 years after future.

The only prediction i make on the 1000 future is this : Different energy sources , many new inventions and the continuation of a Human community.

 

[Perfection]

If not yet, then there will be extreme polarization (which is starting anyways) between the moral and the immoral

Who's on what side right now?