Predict the status of Humanity within one billion years

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  1. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Now, of course, you can predict that Humanity wont' be around

    However, assuming we are around, predict what you believe Humanity will be like in one billion years
     
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  3. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    States of pure energy.
     
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  5. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    pretty much like we were in Wall*E
     
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  7. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    Dead
     
  8. Roman Banned Banned

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    Extinct.
     
  9. Kadark Banned Banned

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    A billion years? What a joke. Humanity will end in about two-hundred fifty years. Of course, that's only my prediction.


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  10. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    We will merge our consciousness with machines and roam the universe discovering new things and enlightening lesser species.
     
  11. Harnu Semper Fidelis Registered Senior Member

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    Dead, if not because of ourselves then because of the expanding sun

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  12. superstring01 Moderator

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    If we're lucky. This possibility is the only true, and feasible possibility for survival. The alternative is giving in to our conservative nature, stopping our evolution and awaiting our destruction at the hands of nature or ourselves.

    ~String
     
  13. weed_eater_guy It ain't broke, don't fix it! Registered Senior Member

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    Many before us have predicted an end to be sometime soon, what makes you think we're so lucky as to be right?

    The way I see it, in a billion years, one of two things will happen. There's the obvious notion of us going extinct, and then there's the idea of an unimaginable expansion of ourselves, our technology, and more importantly, our massive influence across the galaxy, if not multiple galaxies. I think in the first few thousand years of that billion, we would've evolved ourselves through cybernetics, gene modification, alterations of the very function of our organic chemistry through nanites to the point where you really couldn't call us "human" in the classical biological sense (you could argue either that we've become "more" or "less" human, depending on the argument and your point of view). After that, god only knows. Spread throughout the stars? Forge an interstellar mind-hive of worlds, each one acting, in a sense, as an unbelievably large neuron? Learn how to warp space and alter the fabric of time to the point where we control all fundamental aspects of this universe and others and thus become what we could describe as "God"?

    God only knows...

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  14. Betrayer0fHope MY COHERENCE! IT'S GOING AWAYY Registered Senior Member

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    Is it weird that I agree with him?
     
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    extinct
     
  16. ashura the Old Right Registered Senior Member

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    Dead.
     
  17. joepistole Deacon Blues Valued Senior Member

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    I agree with the many others who has perviously stated this, our future awaits us inside a machine. As we learn to manipulate and build biological machnes the distinction that we make between life and machine will become blurred and eventually erased.

    Evolution will demand that we build more efficient and durrable bodies, containers of life. And that will be a machine. And individuals will be able to move their lives from machine to biology as desired.

    And in that time, resources will be equally distributed as production will be inconsequential. So in the end socialism will win out.
     
  18. Mr.Spock Back from the dead Valued Senior Member

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    Playing red alert 3,000,000

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  19. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Why do you all believe we will be dead?

    @Harnu: the sun won't expand for five billion years, not one billion. We'll either have left Earth by then or we'll be dead.
     
  20. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    do you think we will be the machines on Transformers?
     
  21. Cazzo Registered Senior Member

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    This will probably happen within the next 100 years, and within another 100 years we'll probably have the technology and know-how to transfer human consciousness to machines; then live virtually eternal lives.
    Once this technology exists, most human problems can be solved; like overpopulation, food, environmental problems, disease, death, etc.....
    From there your imagination's probably the limit.

    Imagine the technology to transfer millions of human consciousnesses into a powerful computer with a "virtual heaven" for all those people. Put it on a nuclear-fusion powered spacecraft, send them to another solar system, where the spacecraft releases micro robots to construct a new civilization for the transfered human consciousnesses.

    And that technology will probably exist within the next 300 years. The next 1 billion years...... can't imagine what humanity will be like. Certainly a different species all together.
     
  22. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    True. I do believe that within the next one thousand years, perhaps one hundred, things like AI and mind transfer will become available.

    The problem I see with this is, what happens when this machine or computer that holds all of these consciousnesses fails?

    As for my prediction, I predict that within the next one billion years, we Humans will become basically gods, able to warp the very fabric of the universe.
     
  23. Cazzo Registered Senior Member

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    We'll just have to make sure Microsoft doesn't write the software.

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    And it has LOTS of redundancy for hardware problems.

    Actually, in today's technology that's a definite worry. But in a hundred years or so, I'm sure solutions (not requiring human intervention) will be found for all computer malfunctions.
     

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