Stephen Hawking proclaimed at one time while delivering a lecture at the Oxford University Union, that humanity will survive for just about another 1000 years. Now that is a scary thought but there is a bit of contradiction because science is evolving rapidly to unlock the mysteries of the universe as well as discover new and innovative methods to fight disease and prolong aging. There is no reason to refute the claims made by various experts that man can live longer given the right conditions that include diet, lifestyle, and healthcare. Are we headed for disaster as the human race or will we survive for eternity, let’s take a look at Earth in 1000 years and what could be the fate of man then!!
Tech Billionaires like Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, and Larry Ellison are pumping millions of dollars into projects that explore ways and means to stop the aging process. The ultimate route to death is what many fear or are even traumatic about. There are also cryogenic centers in the world where people have their bodies frozen in hopes to be awakened again.
Medical Engineers could also invent various remedies to help human tissues and organs regenerate and age slower. Such efforts if successful and one should not rule them out entirely could soon control and manipulate the human gene making it immune to aging and disease.
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If immortality or living longer becomes a reality, then humans will have to develop advanced space programs to establish colonies on planets like Mars or even explore through interstellar space, other worlds that would be suitable for human settlements.
The SpaceX mission which is an ongoing project by Elon Musk’ company, the Space Exploration project is constantly working towards the development of advanced rocket systems in a bid for travel into deep space. Its mission is for humans to become a spacefaring nation. Currently, NASA is also working on an advanced and powerful Rocket system and a spacecraft that will safely carry astronauts to Mars scheduled for 2030.The SpaceX program hopes to launch their own spacecraft earlier by 2022 and sending four people to Mars in 2024.
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Given the factor of interracial marriage, there will come a time when Earth I 1000 years will feature humans all looking alike. In a unique experiment by Dr. Alan Kwan, humans in the distant future approximately 100,000 years from now will all have similar features that will change. Humans will have larger facial features like bigger nostrils, larger eyes, and highly pigmented skin. In fact, in a step towards a choice of looks, scientists are now trying to develop a method to edit the human genome to give parents a choice on looks.
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In 2014, the world’s largest supercomputer called the K computer in Japan carried out a perfect simulation of the human brain but just one second of activity took the K computer 40 minutes to perform. In the future which could be a 1000 years hence, it has been predicted by scientists that computers will compute and process activity faster than the human brain. What would take a computer ten years to solve will be solved in a second. The supercomputer K-Computer in Japan used an open source Neural simulation technology to simulate a network that consisted of 1.73 billion nerve cells connected by 10.4 trillion synapses much like what is found in the human body.
Quantum computers that make direct use of quantum mechanical phenomena will soon be used in the future for diagnosing disease, developing improved and effective medicinal drugs, improving space exploration technology and drive vehicles that could be aircraft also. However they could invade people’s privacy and be a threat to information security.
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Today machines are being used not just to improve eyesight and hearing but bionic arms and limbs are being developed that can be moved by mind control. The technology of BMI or brain-mind interface for neural prosthetics is a reality and improvements on such technology goes without saying where a humans entire body or at least limbs and certain organs could work through a mechanized process. Today scientists are already in the human testing phase of a bionic kidney that will substitute for failed kidneys. (read about the bionic kidney here)
There are various people living today who also see through cameras with interface implanted in their brains such as bionic eyes. Humans merging with technology could give rise to a new race of cyborgs which may be necessary to control the power of artificial intelligence. Human minds could also log in to supercomputers for direct internet surfing and activity just by the power of thought.
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Dinosaurs and prehistoric animals were all wiped out in what was the first mass extinction on the planet but studies now reveal that extinction is once again a possibility and the chances have increased a hundredfold in the 20th century. Scientific studies have also revealed that civilization can survive only with a gradual reduction in population as human impact on the planet is leading to its destruction. Moreover, there is also the threat of nuclear war wiping us out anytime let alone discuss the fact about what may happen a thousand years from now.
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With the streamlining of languages, it may very well lead to one singular language spoken worldwide which isn’t a bad thing really as this could well break the language barrier for more effective communication. Linguistic experts feel that in a hundred years from now almost 90% of the worlds languages will disappear because of migration and the remaining ones will be made simpler to understand, which of course means that they too will ultimately integrate into a more common and widely spoken language. There won’t ever be a tower of Babel in the future.
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Contractors beware as this is one industry that is most likely to fail in the future where people would be able to create structures instantly and automatically with the help of nanotechnology. This incredible form of technology uses trillions of tiny self replicating microscopic robots that transform themselves into anything. The utility fog is an extension of such a concept. Imagine the scenario where instead of building a house or any structure, the tiny robots would link up to take the form of the object you desire. If you ever get bored of a table, you could convert it into a sofa through a program of instruction.
The utility Fog which is a hypothesis of this idea was introduced by Dr John Storrs Hall in 1993 where he advocated the concept of self reconfiguring modular robotics.
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Even as many countries reel under the effects of climate change and pollution, this may be a thing of the past when a thousand years from now nanotechnology will help create a pollution free and eco-friendly environment. It will also help in providing cleaner water devoid of impurities and harness solar energy effectively. Nanotechnology will produce improved means of storing energy from natural resources.
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Although this may seem farfetched and science fiction, but a 100 years ago how much of today’s technology was considered fiction then?? If you saw the movie Chappie, then a similar experiment is still underway by a company called Humai run by CEO Josh Bocanegra plans to use artificial intelligence and nanotechnology for storage of data of conversational styles, thought processes, bodily function and behavior that can be coded and transferred into a artificial body using the brain of a deceased human being.
A more reliable source is a study at UCLA that observed how consciousness developed from communication between billions of neurons in the brain. According to ASAP Science, it would then be possible to map an individual’s intricate consciousness and upload it into another mind. Well! Here’s food for thought? It is a virtually impossible scenario for living beings to be immortal and inhabit a single planet, but the universe is infinite and so if uploading of consciousness is made possible, then many would chose to live in a state of consciousness, remember the movie “Lucy” and not require a human organic body form. Earth in 1000 years may be inhabited by human cyborgs made up of biodegradable material using minimized resources from the planet.
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