Technology in 10000 years time

[LevelSea]

We'll be slaves to the damn, dirty apes.

 

[Red Squirrel]

There's many times more life underwater than there is on land. Humans will kill themselves off long before they make a dent in the ocean.

True the deep water stuff might survive too as the temperature probably wont change much there.

 

[nickbits]

I predict that most humans will be wiped out by then so tech will be a lot less than what we have now. Heck, I predict that in 1000 years from now, let alone 10,000 or whatever was in the OP.

 

[Jaskalas]

Let's get fusion going before we dream of a distant future.

Energy on that scale would change life as we know it.

 

[z1ggy]

I think that life will be Game of Thrones. We will wipe ourselves out except for a few groups of people. The left over radiation will mutate some into giants and other weird creatures.

We will build castles and revert back to feudal times in a non stop battle over power & land.

 

[Sonikku]

Humanity will build space colonies to move it's burgeoning population off of Earth. Then the colonies will revolt and declare independence. Then we'll have to build mobile suits and fight a war that will wipe out half of humanity. Will be pretty epic though.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I find it inconceivable that our species will not be extinct long before 10k years. Either we will have died out or transformed into something else. In the later case I wonder if anything "human" will be preserved.

I note that someone mentioned that travel will become obsolete and I shouldn't be surprised if we disconnected from reality entirely, living some illusory experience. What would it matter? If perception passes as reality then what is the difference? Perhaps we're long dead and the equivalent of recordings, being "played" by incomprehensible entities uncounted eons old.

 

[moonbogg]

I find it inconceivable that our species will not be extinct long before 10k years. Either we will have died out or transformed into something else. In the later case I wonder if anything "human" will be preserved.

I note that someone mentioned that travel will become obsolete and I shouldn't be surprised if we disconnected from reality entirely, living some illusory experience. What would it matter? If perception passes as reality then what is the difference? Perhaps we're long dead and the equivalent of recordings, being "played" by incomprehensible entities uncounted eons old.

IMO, life tends to bubble up and increase in complexity until the bubble bursts, and then its truly free. Like a butterfly.

 

[Markbnj]

Technology in 10000 years.

Could be true, in 10,000 years or at one or more random points along the way. 10k years might be enough time to do the whole rise and fall thing twice.

But, I kind of hold to the idea that each time we crash we start a little further up the ladder. So I'm not sure we will regress all the way to stone-aged tools again.

 

[Printer Bandit]

The tech for harvesting and eating humans will be perfected by then.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

I think about what it would be like 500 years from now technologically. We are still in the infancy for many forms of technology at the moment.

You know what concerns me more at the moment? The state of the planet 200 years from now and longer. Sooooooooo many species being killed off and animals becoming endangered along with potential climate and ecological disasters maybe it is best we are alive now?

Think of it this way guys... the things we experience now might not be around 500 years or let alone 10,000 years form now. Children in the future might be asking, what does real beef taste like? What was a whale? What was Los Angeles like before it sank to the bottom of the sea?

You get the idea right?

So what would the trade off be for advanced technology in the future?

in the future we will have mastered genomics and have the ability to create whatever life we want. not that dna will even matter. what good is encoding a blueprint when we can directly assemble biologic forms using nano(pico(femto(etc))) technology?

we will have similarly conquered our environment. fully in control of atmosphere, weather, sea level etc. people are underestimating how fast tehcnology is progressing.

 

[acheron]

We will all have uploaded our consciousness into robot brains.

 

[moonbogg]

Could be true, in 10,000 years or at one or more random points along the way. 10k years might be enough time to do the whole rise and fall thing twice.

But, I kind of hold to the idea that each time we crash we start a little further up the ladder. So I'm not sure we will regress all the way to stone-aged tools again.

This already happened in some ways with massive book burnings of intellectual work. Countless years of progress lost. Saw it on Cosmos (original). But why do we keep rising? Because seeds become forests, that's why.

 

[master_shake_]

we might finally have given up on fossil fuels.

and only another 5000 years away from embracing thorium.

 

[Miramonti]

Technology in 10,000 years time will be so advanced, it will actually be introduced in less than 1,000 years.

 

[Fritzo]

There is just no way for us to have any idea where we'll be in 10,000 years. Just the last few thousands years has seen exponential improvements in technology and understanding of the universe.

What I hope would happen in that much time is that we had left the solar system and planted colonies on many other planets.

What may actually happen is that we end up having screwing something up so bad that most our population will die and we'll just have underground city states waiting for a chance to emerge and rebuild again, at which point most everyone will be spending most their time in virtual environments and not caring much about the real world. Governments will either be run by religions or by corporate communisms - either way, there will be no more democracy in such a confined space.

This is true. A hundred or two hundred years we can guess, but 10000 year (hell, even 500 years) is too far out to forcast. I can say that we will most likely merge with technology in some way, so we'll probably be a race of cyborgs by then.

 

[OlafSicky]

We will not make it but if we do it will be a stone age type scenario

 

[Thebobo]

Airplanes take off on treadmills

 

[Fritzo]

Airplanes take off on treadmills

We're talking technology, not witchcraft.

 

[Jeff7]

AI.
We'll end up creating something which will surpass us. We always hope that our biological offspring will be smarter and more capable than us. Our technological offspring may end up achieving that.

Hopefully we have the intelligence to raise them as friendly or benevolent entities.

But given our pathetically violent history, it'll probably be a military project that attains sentience first. Then people will be shocked that the intelligence that was designed to kill people starts killing people.

It's a cool concept but it will never happen. The amount of energy and time spent to build such a structure would outweigh any benefits from capturing full output.

It would make more sense to maneuver Titan, Europa, and Mars within the Goldilocks zone and set up ringworlds as massive solar collectors.

And the structural issues are another matter. It'd also take a lot of matter to build something like that, unless you make it extremely thin. Maybe an inch or so.

Let's get fusion going before we dream of a distant future.

Energy on that scale would change life as we know it.

What does concern me there is the tendency of Earth-based life to grow in times of abundance. Unsustainably so. I figure it's a survival tactic: If you're in a small region, and you find yourself in unexpectedly good times, whether it be from a lack of predators or abundance of food, you breed at an accelerated rate, and consume the resources as quickly as possible. When the good times end, most of that growth literally dies off. But now you might be left with greater geographic distribution than you had before, thus improving the chance that the species will survive long term.

We value individuals though, and don't like to see that kind of attrition. But we're also very susceptible to those primitive behaviors: Our bodies inherently try to store fat in anticipation of famines that aren't likely to come, and shed unused muscle that could be an energy burden. Our behaviors often focus on short-term goals, and of course, on getting as much growth as possible, as quickly as possible.
We're still just primates who happen to be lugging around a bizarrely large mass of neurons.

 

[DrPizza]

I think we'd see an end of religion, else everyone being of the same religion. Likewise, I also think by then, we'll all be one happy country.

Else, we won't exist.

For us to survive that long, sources of major conflict will need to be eradicated. Technologies that were once science fiction, then were incredibly expensive, often become inexpensive mainstream items. E.g., lasers. 40 years ago, incredibly expensive; you read about them, but you didn't see them. Now, you can buy one at the dollar store. There are so many technologies whereby we could screw up human life; thus far, those technologies are just out of the grasp of those willing to harm large portions of the population. How long until someone decides to design a virus that wipes out all of the grain crops in a country? Etc.

 

[gorcorps]

Humans will be gone before then

 

[chimaxi83]

10,000 years?! I'm pretty sure Jesus will be back by then bro!

Also, everyone will be cooling everything with the solution. :sneaky:

 

[pontifex]

Look how much technology has changed in such a short time already. I don't think you can even attempt to guess.

 

[glenn1]

You can't do 10,000 years, the counter only goes to 2050 A.D. stopping you at wherever you are on the tech tree.