Do you think the human race will still exist in the year 3000

[Butterfly98]

My DS has just asked me this question. He's been learning at school this week about pollution and the damage it causes to the planet, animals and vegetation. Some species of animals are almost extinct all because of us humans. Surely a lot will have to change if humanity is to survive for another 981 years?! My DS is fascinated about the fact that if humanity is still around by then won't it be great to be able to look back at actual real recordings of our ancestors from over 1000 years ago! Imagine seeing their social media accounts and getting a real feel for what life was really like such a long time ago. What will have changed by then and how will we evolve? Can we get a lot more modern than we are now with new inventions? Interested to hear all thoughts on this.

I am sort of optimist - I think we will have got off planet . on moon & probably mars plus asteroids - population will sink in the next 200 years because of aging population & birth control, the planet may heat up but other things may make it drop (some of those I really hope don't happen - nuclear winter) I suspect - sadly that on some scale a bombs will be used but hopefully except for those poor victims - not many. science denial will pass - new interest in religion/positive philosophy & morality & kindness - however we may have near miss with asteroid strike because of increased population. I don't think we are done for yet - but who will be the new superpower or new civilisation in charge? what kind of civilisation? (guess who likes sci fi, astronomy, science & anthropology???) :) starts writing notes for new plot ….

I believe Busted had a theory on this

Actual, physical LOL at this. Buys three breasted bra

We'll be swimming around town totally naked. But still here and apparently not much has changed other than the sea levels.

We will be immortal cyborgs

Is it only me who is now inwardly singing "lets all meet up in the year 3000, won't it be strange when we're all fully grown" ?

@Whatafustercluck I think artificial intelligence is a real threat too and not as far fetched as some people believe

If we survive climate change, I wonder if we’d move to space colonies - or somehow merge with AI.

People who worry about artificial intelligence are usually conflating consciousness with intelligence

Also I like the theory that intelligent civilisations like ours may have lived thousands/millions of years ago but were wiped out by whatever thread there might have been, and we’d never know. We could be only one of many incarnations of life on this planet.

*threat

Yes @Sparklesocks I like that theory as well but if human civilisation existed millions of years ago wouldn't some evidence have been unearthed by now through fossilisation for example

No, I don't think so. I don't see how we can survive climate change.

And for anyone saying humans will live on other planets, that's absolute nonsense. We can't even survive on this planet, to which we are perfectly adapted! There is no chance of even getting to, let alone surviving somewhere else.

Butterfly98 that is true, but i suppose it’s possible if it was long enough ago, everything was wiped out without a trace. Maybe not humans exactly but a similar life form where conditions aligned to create and evolve some form of life.

I haven't read the other answers yet (deliberately).

Yes, I think we will. I believe we will be changed past recognition in certain aspects - including how we relate to nature, and how we relate to technology.

Butteredghost totally agree with other planets rubbish

I agree that AI poses a significant threat, and we would do well to stop hurtling towards employing more of it, before we have understood the risks, and put robust measures in place to mitigate them.

If a theory is good enough for Stephen Hawking, then it's good enough for me.

I don’t think the other planet theory is rubbish when you consider the year 3000 is 981 years away - if you think of the technological advances from the last 100 years, or even the space travel advances in the last 50-60 years, I don’t think it’s too big an assumption to suggest advances might be made in the next 900 years which might make space travel/movement out of the question. Only if we survive climate change and everything else, of course!

*No, I don't think so. I don't see how we can survive climate change.

And for anyone saying humans will live on other planets, that's absolute nonsense. We can't even survive on this planet, to which we are perfectly adapted! There is no chance of even getting to, let alone surviving somewhere else*

I read this brilliant theory a while ago that said that we originally lived on mars and fucked it up so badly we(humans) burned it out. But, we had the technology to get off planet and headed for earth crashing down like an asteroid killing existing life (dinosaurs). Only the idiots in the economy compartments survived and started life here, hence our slow development. Now it’s this planet that we will burn.

@twinza I'm now sing that in my head with DH giving me strange looks 😂
However, another big question is will Mumsnet still exist in the year 3000?!

God only knows, but it will be unrecognisable to us in the present day.

*singing

No I don't. Humans keep inventing new technologies that are killing our planet and ourselves. I think we will all stop procreating eventually as we will have so many distractions, living in virtual worlds etc, we will simply stop connecting with eachother. It's already started now.

That's a very good point about disconnection and what it will lead to @Marilynmansonsthermos

I think it's quite c arrogant v to n think we can happily fuck up our home planet and decide to bugger off to another planet. I agree that antibiotic resistance and climate change will take the population back to pre industrial levels and we will continue, until a catastrophic event happens (asteroid/ice age) the planet will take a few 100,000 years to recover, then another life form will evolve and over again, until the sun dies ☀

But the sun is a star and all stars die eventually. so we will be killed by the sun imploding/exploding.