What will life be like in the year 3000

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

The year 3000? Barring unforeseen asteroids, the earth flipping over and whatnot, I would say...


1. Immortality: Vast clone banks in orbit or in near space, with spare organs / skin grafts for everyone alive, with a five minute drop time. Either that or we'll have worked out how to turn off the timer in our cells and we won't need it except for medical emergencies.

Overpopulation isn't going to be an issue - you could comfortably fit the entire human race into an area the size of Texas right now, and I mean with a two storey house and a garden each.

Also as populations get happier and healthier, population growth drops or even decreases (see the first world generally, and places like Japan specifically).

People's time will be spent creating artwork, learning, developing new technology and bettering themselves, the inevitable result of a surplus of luxury resources and free time.


2. Free stuff for all: The enormous resources of the asteroids and local moons will have been plumbed, sending essentially infinite amounts of raw materials to solar-orbiting factories, which process them and ship them back to mother earth.

The equivalent of mercs, laptops, 100 inch tellys etc. will all be so cheap to build and ship that they may as well be free. You won't be getting your own private ocean liner too easily, but it might not be too hard either.

An addendum to this is that most of the grunt work will be done by machines, and all industrial work will be done offworld, meaning there will be no pollution on earth, and no agriculture in fact. Most (95%) of it can be left to run wild.

The average person will have powers wildly beyond the imagination of even the most fevered technophile ( bit like we today can do things beyond the dreams of the maddest contemporary of Shakespeare), with either implants or equipment that will enable us to fly, move things around without touching them, communicate with a central information store instantaneously, and heal most damage swiftly.


3. Government by the people: Politicians will be a thing of the past, with all governmental decisions being made by network. No longer will representatives be needed to speak for the masses, when the masses can vote for themselves, on issues presented by experts in the field.

Most people are far from stupid, and the voting will be set up so its not a "majority rules" deal every time. Spend a couple of hours in the evening reviewing the debates, then cast your vote or make your point.


4. A new frontier: Humans are not generally easily satisfied creatures, and need new challenges to keep them occupied. Happily the universe has supplied an infinite amount of these, with space.

Exploration and colonisation of far off star systems will be ubiquitous for those dissatisfied with the simple life on the homeworld, and whether by the slow boat or some super new ultra fast method, we will be busily expanding across millions of new worlds, discovering new mysteries and hopefully new races and cultures.


5. War: When you have all the resources and life you could ever need, why indulge in war? There is nothing left to fight over, and no politicians to egg it on. I'd still expect a lot of military development just in case we meet something not as enlightened as ourselves.


Funny thing is, we could have all of this a lot sooner than the year 3000.

DesF wrote: »

Go back to the start of the 20th Century. 1907.

Things were so much different even then, and that's only a hundred years ago. No body then could have predicted the Internet, commercial passanger flight that would have you on the other side of the world in less than a day. Televisions showing live action from sports games taking place on another continent, in full colour? Unheard of a mere forty years ago.

Prediction #10: Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span. American audiences in their theatres will view upon huge curtains before them the coronations of kings in Europe or the progress of battles in the Orient. The instrument bringing these distant scenes to the very doors of people will be connected with a giant telephone apparatus transmitting each incidental sound in its appropriate place. Thus the guns of a distant battle will be heard to boom when seen to blaze, and thus the lips of a remote actor or singer will be heard to utter words or music when seen to move.

Prediction #16: There will be No C, X or Q in our every-day alphabet. They will be abandoned because unnecessary. Spelling by sound will have been adopted, first by the newspapers. English will be a language of condensed words expressing condensed ideas, and will be more extensively spoken than any other. Russian will rank second.

Prediction #13: Strawberries as Large as Apples will be eaten by our great-great-grandchildren for their Christmas dinners a hundred years hence. Raspberries and blackberries will be as large. One will suffice for the fruit course of each person. Strawberries and cranberries will be grown upon tall bushes. Cranberries, gooseberries and currants will be as large as oranges. One cantaloupe will supply an entire family. Melons, cherries, grapes, plums, apples, pears, peaches and all berries will be seedless. Figs will be cultivated over the entire United States.