In a million years

WalterMitty

Where will we be technology wise. The industrial revolution and electronic revolution has made the progress in technology so rapid. Where will we be in a thousand or a million years (if man is still alive). Will we all be gentically engineered to absorb masses of info from the t'internet with ease? Silicon brains for some?

Jumpy

WalterMitty wrote: »

Silicon brains for some?

Made from authentic Katie Price.

Doyler92

I don't care. I won't be here.

PeterIanStaker

We the human race will have wiped ourselves out due to our sheer stupidity. Homo Sapiens? Thought not!

recylingbin

In a million years, the green party's taxes on free stuff will have made the planet so clean that we'll have no immune system and all be dead from an outbreak of fish flu.

mathie

PeterIanStaker wrote: »

We the human race will have wiped ourselves out due to our sheer stupidity. Homo Sapiens? Thought not!

hee hee homo!!!111oneone

Schism

People have no idea what it's going to be like in 50 years time nevermind a million.

But if I had to guess I'd say we'll all be eating patented space age moon waffles.

Ruu_Old

Schism wrote: »

People have no idea what it's going to be like in 50 years time nevermind a million.

But if I had to guess I'd say we'll all be eating patented space age moon waffles.

We'll just be calling them waffles since we'll be living on the moon! :cool:

thebigbiffo

large fingers, small bodies, large heads and a sort of instant conciousness link to other humans. we'll have colonised space too.

i'll be there. i'm getting my head frozen

Indubitable

everyone will be dead.

cherryghost

We'll all either be dead or evolved into dinosaur robot zombies.

nyarlothothep

As a species we may not exist as humans, we could very possibly evolve into transhumans or something like that.

Duggy747

Cyberdine will rule the planet, sending out their variatons of Arnie about the place.

Either that or we'll be floating brains.

Stokolan

nyarlothothep wrote: »

As a species we may not exist as humans, we could very possibly evolve into transhumans or something like that.

Or something like this

NothingMan

Schism wrote: »

But if I had to guess I'd say we'll all be eating patented space age moon waffles.

As long as they're not blue... :eek:

OutlawPete

A million?

Christ, just a few hundred years ago, donkey and cart was our most advanced from of transport.

So, a few hundred more years .. fcuk knows what we'll be at.

I'm still waiting for the Hoverboard Marty McFly had me believing in.

mikom

WalterMitty wrote: »

Where will we be in a thousand or a million years (if man is still alive)

If woman can survive.....

NothingMan

OutlawPete wrote: »

I'm still waiting for the Hoverboard Marty McFly had me believing in.

Easily done. We just put a layer of N type magnets under the ground and S type's on our boards. Then a small C02 propeller and we're good to go.

This may effect out gravitational equilibrium if it's done on a global scale and we can't wear metal anymore but other than that I don't see an issue.

Tea_Bag

i give us 300-400 years left in this world. in a million years? i reckon wildlife and nature would have fixed most things that we ****ed up by then.

ScumLord

A million years is way to long to even hazard a guess, a million years ago the human didn't really even exist yet.

I don't think the human species will be wiped out, bar something completely destroying earth but it would have to be even more major than the strike that took out the dinosaurs. I think the way we live now will ultimately cause a mass drop in the human population but by most accounts that could be the best thing that could happened to the species at this point.

Population will have to find a balance, if we want the population to be able to grow indefinitely we need to start moving people off the planet and it's as simple as that.

BBDBB

my library books will be overdue

Mr Benevolent

The human race will not exist in a million years.

Dravokivich

Confab wrote: »

The human race will not exist in a million years.

I'll hold you to that! :pac:

recylingbin

That really hot bird from college still won't have had sex with me, if she's true to her word.

CrazyRabbit

Some non-human archaeologist will be digging up our bones & city ruins, examing them and coming to the conclusion that we were a bunch of brainless, aggressive, violent and self destructive species. And how right they will be.

2kool4skool

If you consider how far we have evolved in the last 10,000 years and then multiply that level of development by 100 it gives you some idea of the scale of development possible. Homo hyper-sapiens will be able to recognise some physical resemblance with homo sapiens but overall will have changed radically. All physical work will be done for humans whose life expectancy by then will, on the scale of development to date, be quite likely to be over 20o years using cloning to substitute body bits as they wear out. The only physical activity we do will be to exercise to keep our bodies and minds in shape. The extent of research available on history will be unlimited at least back to 1990 or thereabouts since every post such as this will remain available. Any messages you want to leave folks?

Tea_Bag

2kool4skool wrote: »

If you consider how far we have evolved in the last 10,000 years and then multiply that level of development by 100 it gives you some idea of the scale of development possible. Homo hyper-sapiens will be able to recognise some physical resemblance with homo sapiens but overall will have changed radically. All physical work will be done for humans whose life expectancy by then will, on the scale of development to date, be quite likely to be over 20o years using cloning to substitute body bits as they wear out. The only physical activity we do will be to exercise to keep our bodies and minds in shape. The extent of research available on history will be unlimited at least back to 1990 or thereabouts since every post such as this will remain available. Any messages you want to leave folks?

contrary to popular belief, it kinda sucks to live in 2010.

oh and banks arent easy to rob these days, even if you believe they are.

thats my message.

Sheepy99

Faeces will be an aphrodisiac

Sheepy99

BBDBB wrote: »

my library books will be overdue

you'll be the coolest cat around then

Dravokivich

2kool4skool wrote: »

Any messages you want to leave folks?

i remember when chikatee's were only 10p for a pack... They cost something like 60c now.... I'd hate to see how much they'd be after a million years worth of inflation...

bonerm

Fianna Fail will finally be voted out of power.

aDeener

can't really speak for a million years time but by all accounts by the year 3000 nothing will have changed except we will be living under water.

karlog

Unless we colonise another planet we'll probably be extinct in a million years.

Davidius

Technological advancement will come to a complete stand-still in 2074, after a few hundred years of boredom, we all murder each other and start a new civilisation.

Sure isn't that what happened to the dinosaurs?

6th

Go-go gadget phalus!

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

We, as a species, will not be here in 1 million years

ScumLord

Karsyn Little Cartoonist wrote: »

We, as a species, will not be here in 1 million years

I don't know, as far as I can see the human form is near utter perfection. It suits migrating between random environments, Given the limitations of the mammalian form I can't see a better way of getting around. I know nature can take all kinds of weird directions but just about any alteration to the human form would make it worse at being an explorer.

The big change is supposed to be in the brain but it's been the same for the past 100,000 years as far as we can tell yet it's limitations haven't really been found yet. There are modern techniques that can utilise it much more efficiently so maybe we don't even need a bigger more powerful brain either.

If we don't need to evolve to a new environment we won't change at all.

6th

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't know, as far as I can see the human form is near utter perfection.

You've been checking out my posts in KYNs?

Indubitable

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't know, as far as I can see the human form is near utter perfection.

We need wings.

jd007

We'll more than likely all be dead.

Run_to_da_hills

Not quite a million years but million miles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO6DtPDwc1c

Adyx

NothingMan wrote: »

Easily done. We just put a layer of N type magnets under the ground and S type's on our boards. Then a small C02 propeller and we're good to go.

This may effect out gravitational equilibrium if it's done on a global scale and we can't wear metal anymore but other than that I don't see an issue.

Surely both should be the same in order to repel?

recylingbin

The Who?

You can shove your summer tunes thread where the sun don't shine, the minute the sun comes on, I throw on my parka, get out the vespa, fire on the who and head for Brighton.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't know, as far as I can see the human form is near utter perfection. It suits migrating between random environments, Given the limitations of the mammalian form I can't see a better way of getting around. I know nature can take all kinds of weird directions but just about any alteration to the human form would make it worse at being an explorer.

The big change is supposed to be in the brain but it's been the same for the past 100,000 years as far as we can tell yet it's limitations haven't really been found yet. There are modern techniques that can utilise it much more efficiently so maybe we don't even need a bigger more powerful brain either.

If we don't need to evolve to a new environment we won't change at all.

Or need a new food source, feul source, etc etc. I am not sure if we are near perfection, I think we are far from it as we have yet to learn to preserve that which is important. We are on a very long road to self destruction, we are over populated and I think we might be near the maximum capacity of this planet.

Sofaspud

Sheepy99 wrote: »

Faeces will be an aphrodisiac

It already is to some.

CrazyRabbit

Within 50 years, we will be hardwired with implanted computers (already done with simians). Enhanced memory, pattern matching, calculating abilities etc, and we will be able to remotely control other computers using thought alone.

Within a 100 years, children will be born that will have 200-330 year lifespans or more due to medical advancements.

Within 200-300 years, computer technology will be advanced enough to replicate the human brain. At that stage, we will no longer need the human body and evolution will be just software/hardware upgrades.
We can then travel to distant solar systems as time will have less relevance when you are immortal.

Then we'll all get infected with some virus created by a 16 year old Russian teenager and we'll be wiped out.

Fremen

WalterMitty wrote: »

Where will we be technology wise. The industrial revolution and electronic revolution has made the progress in technology so rapid. Where will we be in a thousand or a million years (if man is still alive). Will we all be gentically engineered to absorb masses of info from the t'internet with ease? Silicon brains for some?

It's all summarised in this diagram.

orourkeda

Liverpool still wont have won the premiership

ScumLord

Karsyn Little Cartoonist wrote: »

Or need a new food source, feul source, etc etc. I am not sure if we are near perfection, I think we are far from it as we have yet to learn to preserve that which is important. We are on a very long road to self destruction, we are over populated and I think we might be near the maximum capacity of this planet.

Your talking about the outcome of society I'm talking about the human body itself just as a mammalian form. The configuration is without a doubt natures finest achievement. Flight is impressive but does restrict the animal in allot of ways.

orourkeda

ScumLord wrote: »

Your talking about the outcome of society I'm talking about the human body itself just as a mammalian form. The configuration is without a doubt natures finest achievement. Flight is impressive but does restrict the animal in allot of ways.

How much more\less powerful can the human brain become? There'll be the obvious silly stuff like our little toes will probably irrelevant bit other than that its not easy to say

ScumLord

orourkeda wrote: »

How much more\less powerful can the human brain become?

I don't know, I remember seeing some thing that said if the human brain was any bigger it wouldn't work as well. With long term use of complicated maths or engineering concepts we may develop specialised parts of the brain to deal with them. It all depends what what women find attractive at the end of the day. Females usually control the direction of the species.