EPTWhat will everyone think about us in 1000 years? - Page 8
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Lightswarm
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sekritzzz
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CrtBalorda
Slovenia704 Posts
On October 21 2012 23:41 Hesmyrr wrote: Predicting 100 years into future is outrageously difficult, even guessing the societal changes that occur within 10 years would be quite an challenge to say the list. I'd say making statements pertaining to 1000 years after is downright impossible. Okey Im sorry but I can not help but laugh at one dumb spelling mistake you made lol. As for what people will think. I think they will probabbly just wonder why hair used to grow on us ^^ | ||
Olli
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The ImmortaI One
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HULKAMANIA
United States1219 Posts
Like most futurists, we're all playing either "wouldn't it be cool if..." or "let's pretend [insert current trend] will still be relevant in X years." | ||
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Desertfaux
Netherlands276 Posts
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Uvantak
Uruguay1381 Posts
On October 22 2012 07:08 Simberto wrote: People have tendency to mostly remember wars. Thus, the best thing you can hope for is to be remembered as "then nothing really interesting happened for 200 years" Well, if you dig a bit in the recent history you will see alot, ALOT of wars, The Ruwanda genocide, the Cambodian genocide, the War in Sierra Leone's (and all of those other countries involved in the Blood Diamond thingie) the WWII, the WWI, the Russian Genocide agains't the Jews, the Irak and Afghanistán wars, the Russian invasion to Georgia, the Arab Spring and the Syrian revolution (with Facebook and youtube playing a big role in it), the Cold War, etc etc etc And in a most peaceful way we have obviously the digital revolution, the decoding of the Human Genoma, all of those extra solar planets that are discovered in an almost daily basis, the Global warming, the contamination and destruction of our natural resources, the way the sub-saharan, saharan, and middle east countries use their subterranean water reserves and why they aren't thinking in the future when they end waterless, the actual global economic recession, the feeling of the Overpopulation even when it´s not a real worry, and how in ~20 years when we step in MOTHERFUCKING MARS. The way i think they will see us is how we are in the edge of a real fucking big revolution in how we comunicate (just look at thins forum, when i can comunicate with you even when you are +1000 kms away from me in an almost instantaneous manner), how our new computers help us to understand the world that is around us and warn us about the challenges we face that make us fear about our future; Global warning, the water problems in Saharan, Sub-saharan Countries and middle east, the contamination and the several amount of species going extinct, and in thousand years for sure they will be astonished of how one single country managed to soak the 25% of all the earth resources. Well that's how i think they will see us, still having wars between each other, Autoritarian goverments falling in horrid wars but still going forward at huge steps with the digital and genetic revolutions while there are efforts to help the 3world countries to develop and trying to avoid damaging the ecosystems even further. srry if i made gramatical errors, english is not my first languaje and doing my best to speak it propelly | ||
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quirinus
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We have the potential to make everything 'futuristic/advanced', but our organization/management/politics are hideous - it's really really really bad. It might not seem like that, it's just that, they're much better than even just 50 years ago. If we could pool everything together and organize everything, it doesn't take a visionary to imagine what would happen. Let me tell you that we could make 90% things from SF movies possible for common people even now, or soon, from the technological point of view, and most of it wouldn't even cost much or be difficult to develop. It just takes a few people to jump-start it and get some exposure and in 1 year 15% of people will be using it, and next year a lot more. As for the mindset/politics/relations/way of thinking, we need to mature (it's a process, but globalization/internet is helping it), and then it'll start happening on it's own - unless, as I said, someone jump-starts things and catalyzes it to make it appear sooner, a grand leader/visionary (a damned lucky person at that) - both for technology and mindset. I feel funny living in the current world with all the struggling, knowing this potential, everywhere I look I see what can be easily achieved in the future. Also, there's no way we're going to go extinct. | ||
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electronic voyeur
United States133 Posts
On October 23 2012 00:04 AUFKLARUNG wrote: From a philosophical view it really doesn't matter. The people from the future might reflect on us from a totally practical perspective, if what I imagine 1000 years of development proves to be true. Society develops so much now, especially after the 1900s. Whatever technological advances we have achieved for 2000 years, 50 BC to 1950, does not even count for half of what we have achieved since then. To be honest, I shudder at the thought of what could be possible in as little as 5-10 years from now. Specifically, I've been following developments in genetics, transhumanism, and space missions. Those are the most interesting thing for me outside philosophy. Think about Mars and the Curiosity mission. How massive would it be if we find life there, something which I hope happens. By 3012, people or whatever living organisms then capable of reflecting on the past would think of our generation in the same way that we think of the time when Earth was just ball of rocks and magma waiting to cool - just a point in the infinite speck of time. I doubt that they will be even talking about our "civilization" nor our "intelligence". herp* mr.-know-it-all *derp User was warned for this post | ||
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HULKAMANIA
United States1219 Posts
Honestly, how old are you? His post contains a reasoned opinion, and it's relevant to the topic at hand. There's no need to vent your insecurities just because you think he's taking a "know-it-all" tone. And even if you just have to vent them, there are much more constructive ways than a goddamn "herp-derp" post. I mean hell. | ||
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Stye
Poland40 Posts
On October 22 2012 09:22 DeepElemBlues wrote: That's why the ability for reform of the institution of the religion is so vital for a religion to be healthy. Let's keep Scientology as an example. Would it be possible for a Scientologist to go against official doctrine and try to change it, if that Scientologist and others thought that the organization was not being true to L. Ron Hubbard's "teachings"? No. Religions like Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, to a much (much much) lesser degree Islam, all have traditions of reform from within and the creation and spread of new doctrines that claim to be closer to the "true" faith as taught by the founders of that religion. It keeps the religious institution from becoming so hidebound that it stifles the religion. But that's just what I opened my first post here with. Listen to interviews of Scientologists, especially ones introducing the subject of background story (Xenu, and all the rest of the story invented by L Ron Hubbard). Those interviewees ('senior' Scientologists) deny it, saying they never heard of such nonsense (should you require links, i'd be happy to supply them), which apperaed to me as similar to Christianity (just to mention one example) denying that the world was created in 7 days (which was widely believed true during first 5 or more centuries of its existence and by original writers, of course), calling it now to be a metaphore, once science gave evidence about how planets are created (also look at : abraham living 700 years, the plagues of Egypt, red sea crossing by Moses, etc.) . That's why I compare those, saying those religions converge to a very similar (ultimately identical? time will show) set of ideas, despite much varied roots. | ||
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killa_robot
Canada1884 Posts
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heroyi
United States1064 Posts
On October 21 2012 23:05 marttorn wrote: I'm not sure if they'll remember us or think anything about us, particularly. There's nothing that makes our age stand out very much in the bigger picture of things. Aside from the massive technological leaps in the 20th century and before, I don't see anything that makes our relative time very noteworthy. There's important things happening all the time, of course, but I'm sure there were hugely important things going on in the 1010's that we don't remember, either. You should add more content to the OP, by the way :o Holy shit that was one helluva ignorant post | ||
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However, I don't question legitimacy or accountability of the original creators, but merely point out the huge difference between what was intended in religion and what it ends up to be after some time. The example of Scientology was merely to show that time is not a factor, whether it's 60 years or 1700-ish years of evolution. I kind of think all religions are converging to a general set of good ideas, despite their very different roots. Hence, I agree with you pointing how different roots different religions have, yet I just think they converge to something quite common to many of them (self development, social productivity, morality, etc.).
