I think, if we're lucky and think a bit, we will still be here, in 3000. In fact, I even think life might be fairly recognizable.
Hello!!! future people, if you're reading this! :)
I just wrote that-because , it's an odd thing to think of, but it's just possible some or all of what's written on mumsnet could be preserved, and I think people in the future will be as interested in history as we are -so someone in 3000, might find this and read it, to see what we thought the future would be like. So, hello again- future people, and I hope you're ok!!x
I think we can probably get ourselves through things to do with climate change, I think that we will hopefully be able to make enough changes and allowances , to get through it, I hope we can.( I am aware it's a subject that I'm not as well informed about as my daughter is though, and I know it worries her quite a bit)
Nuclear weapons worry me more, but I think, hopefully at some point, hopefully soonish, we will actually realize that they are ridiculous, stupid things and get rid of them. I think an increasing number of women in politics, could be a factor that would be helpful to that. I also think that young people feeling more entitled to be listed to could help, and social media could , too.
If we don't blow our silly selves up, and I hope we don't! I've got a feeling that we will hopefully get to a point, where the world is more like, countries of a single continent are now. I think we might well still have countries-they're useful in an admin sort of way, and regional languages, dialects and customs-but I think hopefully we will be at a point where people have similar rights and standards , wherever they are. I also think it's possible we could get to a point where people manage to avoid having wars.I think this could come about, naturally, just though us talking to each other and educating ourselves and becoming more civilized.( in the same way, that we don't do certain things, that people did 500 years ago, for example,)
I suppose, basically, we might end up with a global society, that had the best of socialistic/'communist' type ideas-to do with fairness and equality, but also the best bits of democracy-such to do with choice and a reasonable amount of personal freedom.
I do think this is rather optimistic -but I do think it's do-able, with some thought, effort and communication,and some unselfishness, which I think is a teachable thing, to an extent.
I think we need to get to a point , as quickly as we can , where, its perfectly easy , to move from one part of the world to another. Of course where people live might change, but I do really think-that we should be aiming at global freedom of movement, being a safe, achievable thing, and that some places in the world shouldn't have really different standards of living-
If, in the future, we're a bit poorer and less comfortable, or doing well and more comfortable- then it should be roughly be equally the case, for everyone , wherever you're born or live.
We need to be careful and thoughtful about birth control and about preserving natural space for creatures-we need to stop tarmacking every thing!
We also need to be careful about 'scientific'advances , that could be a bad idea, (like nuclear weapons are/were). I think we need to be careful about stuff to do with a.i, genetics and any advanced tech generally, we need to make sure our ethics/ morals/ empathy etc -and laws, if necessary, keeps pace with technical advances. I also think we need to take much more care of insects, plants animals etc.
We need to get an understanding that just because we can do something (i.e know how) it doesn't mean we have to do it. Which is really a lesson we should have learnt from the first world war-when we saw what industrialized, affluent, mechanized warfare looked like. The price we paid , for not understanding that, properly, was nuclear weapons. It would be really nice, if we could actually mentally and emotionally register the fact that we can't have them, because they are too big, and get rid of them without actually using them .We are clever and imaginative creatures, so it is something we're theoretically capable of, so, I hope we can.
I do think hopefully , we will still be here though, but we will have to make a good effort, to keep the place nice. Culturally, I think we will have one or two common languages, which will be descended from languages we have now, as well as people probably speaking regional languages.
I also think at some point we might have some kind of non/ low polluting flying cars! I think that just because it would be fun and I think that people would like them.
My mum is interested family history and family tree research and I remember she once told me, if you just followed one line back in your family tree, for example, your mum, your maternal granny, her mum, etc, and went back , one person per generation-that about 30 people, would take you as far back as the Norman conquest. To picture it, that's about as many people in a largish school class, or a medium sized party. That's just, one woman , having a baby, the baby growing up having a baby-and that happening 30 or so times gets you back to the days of 1066. So, it's only that again, to get us to roughly the year 3000, I think if enough people make an effort to be nice and be careful and be fair, we actually have a reasonable chance of doing it.
So, I think hopefully, some one in 3000, could (maybe!) be reading this, and then go out for a nice a walk somewhere and still hopefully be able to look round and think how beautiful it is and that they were glad to be alive. I hope its like that:)