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Hug-A-Hydralisk posited that very question in a succinct OP an hour ago.
It's a great question. I mean first off, do you really believe in a Pax America or even 1300 years of the Star Spangled Banner? That would put us in the running as one of the longest nations to continually exist. I'm pretty doubtful of that. It's nothing against our particular way of life but entropy is a part of the natural order and it'd have to be a hell of a good millenium for us.
Let's say though, that millenium has passed. Will Robot Smith is still living off the hype of 2999 and is staring in iHuman, a daring take on a human that breaks The Three Laws by allowing a robot to come to harm. We possibly live in New New York and there is a University on Mars.
How will humanity view who we were today in the 20th and 21st centuries? Enlightened? Industrial? Savage?
Studying the past is often declared essential to shaping the future. Imagine our past millenium and the upheavals to our species. In just one thousand years we have gone from a dark world that knew a thousandth of a percent of what we have learned in the last 300 years.
Year 1000 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
310,000,000 humans inhabited Earth. The Golden Age of Islam was at its height. The Pope had recently dug up the last Pope and put the corpse on trial. Civilizations as great and powerful as ours rose, fell, reformed and fell again. The Magna Carta and the Dark Ages. The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. These are just examples of European history.
But all history must meet at our Industrial Age. For the first time in history we drove back the darkness of the night and displayed a mastery of our habitat in such dominance that we could destroy it. In the last three hundred years what would be called magic a millenium ago and worshiped has become so commonplace that we don't think twice that we are communicating over electrons across the world.
Now tell me what you think our legacy will be in the year 3000. Will we be remembered as the industrious? The savage? Or just middle years of history like the year 1000, caught between the beginning and end of Islams golden age, remembered more for the Mongols that destroyed.
For reference, here's America 50 years ago.
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Hug-A-Hydralisk posited that very question in a succinct OP an hour ago.
It's a great question. I mean first off, do you really believe in a Pax America or even 1300 years of the Star Spangled Banner? That would put us in the running as one of the longest nations to continually exist. I'm pretty doubtful of that. It's nothing against our particular way of life but entropy is a part of the natural order and it'd have to be a hell of a good millenium for us.
Let's say though, that millenium has passed. Will Robot Smith is still living off the hype of 2999 and is staring in iHuman, a daring take on a human that breaks The Three Laws by allowing a robot to come to harm. We possibly live in New New York and there is a University on Mars.
How will humanity view who we were today in the 20th and 21st centuries? Enlightened? Industrial? Savage?
Studying the past is often declared essential to shaping the future. Imagine our past millenium and the upheavals to our species. In just one thousand years we have gone from a dark world that knew a thousandth of a percent of what we have learned in the last 300 years.
Year 1000 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.
310,000,000 humans inhabited Earth. The Golden Age of Islam was at its height. The Pope had recently dug up the last Pope and put the corpse on trial. Civilizations as great and powerful as ours rose, fell, reformed and fell again. The Magna Carta and the Dark Ages. The Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. These are just examples of European history.
But all history must meet at our Industrial Age. For the first time in history we drove back the darkness of the night and displayed a mastery of our habitat in such dominance that we could destroy it. In the last three hundred years what would be called magic a millenium ago and worshiped has become so commonplace that we don't think twice that we are communicating over electrons across the world.
Now tell me what you think our legacy will be in the year 3000. Will we be remembered as the industrious? The savage? Or just middle years of history like the year 1000, caught between the beginning and end of Islams golden age, remembered more for the Mongols that destroyed.
For reference, here's America 50 years ago.
