Earth in AD 100,000

[Shylock]

Humans will have stripped the place bare and before they were able to go anywhere else.

If were around at all we'll have evolved back into beasts long before then.

 

[illram]

We'll all be uploaded into a Dyson cloud of billions of little computers revolving around the sun.

You might be interested in this book:

Year Million: Science at the Far End of Knowledge

 

[lutzj]

Everyone will set aside 3 hours each day to worship me.

 

[Slaughter]

I think we will be a space-faring civilization by year 3000. By 100,000 AD, Earth is probrably going to still be inhabitated, but I think it will be kinda of a natural preservation of our original planet, with some great metropolises still in earth. If we turn into one big federation, earth won't probrably be even the capital world, the capital will probrably be in some planet we pretty much terraformed it to be paradise. If, in the future, we fragmentate in many groups, many groups and nations will colonize other planets and solar systems, dividing our part of the galaxy in many space-faring nations. We would be so many, and growing, thanks to new planets, new arable lands and new farming techniques. Maybe we would't even need food by that time, but direct nourishment from stars.

Due to genetic engineering, nanomachines and cybernetic enhancement, we won't probrably be the same species from today. It would't surprise me if there were multiple species that branched off homo sapiens, either though genetics, cybernetics or nanomachines. We will either modify ourselves to be super-soldiers, super-brainiacs, sex masters, unkillable survivalist or just to adapt to diferent planets. Some modifications will be simple and discrete. Others will be drastic, causing mutants with diferent appearances from normal humans. This will either be common or it will produce lots of prejudice, causing death, wars and hate. We will divide people in many groups: Asides from national and ethnic prejudice, we'll probrably call the others things like "Borgs, Muties, Transhuman Freaks, Nanos, Zero-Grav Babies, Heavy-Grav strongmen, Virtual Reality Addicts, Earth Scumbags, Martian Freaks, Centauri madmen, Hybrids", etecetera...

It would't surprise me if by 100.000 we either already had contact with aliens long ago or we found them around 100.000 AD. It would probrably bring humans and derivated races together, but it would possibly mean eletric death for one of the sides of the find. It would't surprise me if we either found a species of pacifist that would subsequently be murdered by us, or a race of bloodthirsty gore killers that would make Attilla the Hun call them "Barbarians."

 

[Eli]

How would a society of space faring intelligent goldfish would look like?

Absolutely impossible to predict.

Even if scientific progress goes much slower than expected, in the next couple of centuries alone we're going to reach the capability to engineer the human body and the human brain. As soon as that is achieved, the very laws and limitations of sociology and psychology that govern today's societies and human interactions will diverge into countless directions. All this will be coupled with progress in information technology, nano-technology and space access, together with countless other revolutions and paradigm shifts.

From all that follows a society of beings who wield enormously powerful tools and who do not think like us. Absolutely impossible to predict, and that's looking just a few centuries down the road.

 

[smoochy]

earth in 100.000 ad?
hmm.... probably barren rock, someone will invent the bomb to destroy the whole planet, that's 100% true

 

[salty mud]

Humans will not exist. We will have killed ourselves LONG before 100,000 AD.

 

[Annex]

I agree in theory. But regarding point 1), we don't have the capability to destroy the planet to that extent.

We dont now, but how can you say we wont have that capability within the next 98,000 years?

 

[TheLastOne36]

I know this will happen

 

[h4ppy]

everyone will be dead

 

[Perfection]

So, what will Earth be like in AD 100,000?

Probably like a 6.6 sextillion ton ball in orbit around the Sun.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Earth will be under the iron fist of alien overlords.

 

[SG-17]

A.) The Federation will have control over the entire galaxy along with Andromeda, while still fighting the Borg in M-33.

B.) The United States, after gaining large leaps in technology through the Stargate Program has established cities on almost every world in the Milky Way, Pegasus, and the yet unnamed galaxy that Universe will be based in.

C.) We've gone extinct.

D.) We've gotten past our petty differences and expanded into space with Earth either being 1.) A city planet like Coruscant. 2.) A preservation of the study of human past.

E.) We messed with our Genome enough that a disease was created that effected the entire population and turned them into purely instinctual creatures.

 

[emzie]

AD 100,000 will never come. We'll have stopped using 'AD' long before.

 

[LesCanadiens]

We will be unable to stop climate change, and will be pushed to the point that basic agriculture is no longer possible. We will then engineer (genetically modify) a species of grain to survive in almost any condition and be able to thrive in spite of the climate's change. So it does. This new grain starts growing everywhere, and takes over every single ecosystem on the planet. All forests, grasslands, mountains, beaches, deserts, jungles, and every other ecosystem give way to this grain. It moves in on the cities too, occupying every park, every front lawn, and pushing its way up through the pavement. Most lakes and rivers dry up as the grain sucks them dry.

So we survive for a while, but we have only grain to eat. We have no other crops, and no more livestock. We turn to the sea to get what we need, but in 2-3 generations the sea is completely depleted. Then we die out, as the one-sidedness of our grain diet leaves us prone to disease, makes us go blind, etc.

 

[Bast]

We dont now, but how can you say we wont have that capability within the next 98,000 years?

My thinking is that we will destroy ourselves first if we did that. People underestimate how much we rely on our "environment".

 

[JustinianVII]

Could be many possibilites.
-We're all dead, either by our own hands or some catastrophe beyond our control.
-We're a spacefaring species and will colonize much of the Universe.
-Humanity has survived one (or several) catastrophes and has had to start over at some point.
-We begin the split into the Eloi and Morlocks

 

[Infantry#14]

I will continue making babies.

 

[Quiet Sound]

The other hominids will still be telling us whippersnappers to get off their lawn.

 

[TheLastOne36]

it's 100,000 CE guys!!! Not 100,000 AD!!!!

Spoiler :

damned PC crap...