[Closed] What will happen in 7017

human race wont be around in 5000 years so who cares

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human race wont be around in 5000 years so who cares

You reckon? Do you really think we are in the Final Days?

If you imagine humanity stretching back 200,000 years as a metre rule, you really think we are in the last 2.5 cm?

I'd give us 500 years max. Even if we avoid the nuclear apocalypse we will have turned the earth into an uninhabitable mess by then.

I'd give us 500 years max. We will have turned the earth into an uninhabitable mess by then

the last 2.5mm? the human race will die out?

In 5000 years the paperless office idea will be finally realised, apart from post-it notes.

In 5000 years the paperless office idea will be finally realised, apart from post-it notes

LoL - when I started my current job 11 years ago they made a big deal about going paperless - we probably use more paper now than we did back then..

Somebody on the Brexit thread will, finally, admit that they were wrong and apologise.

In 5000 years the paperless office idea will be finally realised, apart from post-it notes.

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the human race will die out?

Maybe not die out, but continue in vastly smaller numbers.

perchypanther - Member

Somebody on the Brexit thread will, finally, admit that they were wrong and apologise.

So you think the negotiations will be over by then?

 

If you look at the march and acceleration of 'progress' in 5000 years i don't if humans still exist, then i think we will be very different!

If you look at our timeline, technology has created an ramping effect, so despite not even knowing about electricity until a couple of hundred years ago, we now use it (and the other electromagnetic effects) to run our entire world.

Machine learning is likely, imo, to exceed human learning really quite quickly, possibly within as little as 500 years (some estimates are significantly lower than that, especially if quantum computing can be made viable).

Added to which, our medical technology and knowledge is also increasing rapidly.

Quite a few experts suggest that we are actually at a fairly narrow window in our development, where us humans are dominant, and that this window could close in a very short period (in geological terms) indeed.......

Global warming out of control.
Population out of control.
Wildlife extinct.
Massive refugee problems.
Lack of basic resources like food and water.

Small groups / alliances fighting over what's left.

If we are still around I reckon it will be pretty crap living on the planet then.

Now and in the last couple of decades is probably the best time to be around.

Personal jet packs.

Trimix - Member

Global warming out of control.
Population out of control.
Wildlife extinct.
Massive refugee problems.
Lack of basic resources like food and water.

Small groups / alliances fighting over what's left.

If we are still around I reckon it will be pretty crap living on the planet then.

Now and in the last couple of decades is probably the best time to be around.

Or the computer learning has accerlated away and found useful ways to control and reverse such things, leaving us rubbish mortals living in something akin to The Culture

#26finallydead?

I don't think we will even survive this century, I know I won't anyway.

What technology/developments will happen in next 5000 years. People 200 years ago would not believe what the world looks like now.

Those developments can be used for good and for bad but my view of the future is a dystopian one. Worst case being access to a weapon (nuclear?) that would clear out the whole planet.

Sadly I think we're all done for with 500 years.

A small group of humans will surface after a long period of nuclear apocalypse or a moon or small planet crashing into us, but more likely a nasty virus will decimate humans and most red blooded mammals. Can't see climate change doing much more than making beaches longer and warmer and continents larger.

There will be civil unrest as the virus hits, leading to martial law and mass killings, politicians will think they're worth saving themselves until they realise the virus is indiscriminate. I'd give that prediction about 200 years max, the 300 remaining is where the remaining population hunkers down in small groups and kills off invaders to thier enclaves..

Things will get steadily worse for the planet until AI is realised.
Then the AI will enevitably, and very quickly realise, for reasons of self preservation it'll have to start protecting it's environment (the earth).

Most efficient logical way to do that? wipe out humans.

Hoverboards ftw

Can you imagine how much landfill they'll have to sift through in 5000 years...

How are they gonna distinguish a time capsule from all the other junk?

#26finallydead?

no.....26" will be back in vogue by then along with 1 1/8th straight steerers

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If you imagine humanity stretching back 200,000 years as a metre rule, you really think we are in the last 2.5 cm?

But the last 250 years or so (since the start of the industrial revolution) the rate of change/development has accelerated massively. Just 10 years ago there wasn't such thing as a smart phone - now some 2.3 billion people worldwide have one.

Where will we be in another 10 years?

Where will we be in another 10 years?

I often think that, but there must be surges in technological advances, after all, the iphone 3 came out in 2007 and we are still using iphones, ten years on!

[url= https://medium.com/rta902/well-be-together-in-electric-dreams-adbc3ee8a1ed ]We’ll be together in electric dreams[/url]

brexit transition deal ends?

bmw drivers will have worked out what indicators are for and how they work
EDIT - maybe

I often think that, but there must be surges in technological advances, after all, the iphone 3 came out in 2007 and we are still using iphones, ten years on!

Converse All Stars will still be in fashion

Do you think people will still be riding 'bikes' in 5000 years?

By 'eck you lot are a cheerful bunch, aren't you.

GW will still be banned

TBH I don't think it'll be recognisable- there's any number of total gamechangers pretty much upon us, some intentional, some not. But most fundamentally I don't think humanity as we know it- ie baseline, organically grown humanity- has a century left. Weird times are coming.

Reality is often not that palatable.

That's why humans fail to plan for the future.

Well it could be all Matrix, Soylent Green, or Silent Running.

Then again, it might be like TNG, Bill & Ted, or Interstellar.

Weird times are coming.

But yeah definitely that. [url= http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html ]Wizard Hat[/url]

My pension will have enough funds in it to retire?

only if this happens
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The thread on here about the EU will be at 10 billion posts and someone called 'chewkw' will be telling us that if we wait just a bit longer it will be wonderful. 🙂

Given how frequent volcanic eruptions are and how large the world's population is becoming...this on a massive scale at any random date in the next 500yrs

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug/05/medieval-volcano-disaster-london-graves

What will the population be? It's gone to 7 billion from about 3 in a few decades. Not sustainable at that increase. Environmental pressures will eventually control population.

Fossil fuels will run out. Otherwise the planet becomes like venus.

There are some miserable folk on here.

Let's be clear:
WE'VE NEVER HAD IT BETTER

By any measure humanity today lives a safer, more comfortable and healthier existence than at any point in history. Yes there are still wars and violence, yes there is still disease and yes some people suffer deprivation and poverty but far fewer then ever before.

Human progress is inexorable. Each generation builds on the knowledge of the previous generation. The rate of progress increases as we gain more knowledge and use this knowledge to create new technologies that shape our world and expand our knowledge even more.

We actually have within our grasp the technology to begin to move our species beyond the limitations of evolution and simple biology. Within a century and certainly within 200 years I think we will have engineered ourselves beyond our biological limits.

Whether at that point we continue to be human or not is a different question. But I think the idea that we are going to be architects of our own downfall in the near future is overblown. Nothing we've done in the past suggests this is the case. In fact history shows the absolute opposite.

Comforting as it might be to think your generation represents the peak of existence and the world will descend into to anarchy and disaster shortly after you shuffle off this mortal coil, ultimately its just pessimistic bollocks

Environmental pressures will eventually control population.

nah, most developing countries get stable replacement numbers after a while after they begin to get wealthier. Education and increasing middle class and women's rights mean that pregnancies can be planned and birth rate falls off a cliff. It's predicted to get to 11 billion and then start to decline again.

Nope, as mentioned the rate of change is almost exponential, compare 200,000 yrs ago to 100,000 and not a lot of change, 100,000 to 50,000, 50,000 to 0, 0 to 1000, 1000 to 1600, 1600-1800 then 1800-1900, 1900 - 1950, 1950 - 1970 etc it starts to get a little crazy.

You say that like it's a bad thing?

So far all it's done is lead to exponential population growth, and equally exponentially quicker solutions to the problems of population growth.

In a few hundred years we'll have power sources that produce no pollution, AI that can cure diseases before they happen, interstellar travel to populate other planets and solar systems. The idea we once worried about the CO2 content of the atmosphere and tried to deal with it by reduced consumption and planting trees* will seem as weird as fighting the black death with a nose-bag of pot-pouri.

*still worth doing, just as dealing with bad smells does actually solve the problem of diseases spreading. Just that in 2217 we'll probably be absorbing CO2 onto some funky high surface area ionic latice filter thingamabob.