EPTWhat will everyone think about us in 1000 years? - Page 9
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MoonfireSpam
United Kingdom1153 Posts
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KurtistheTurtle
United States1966 Posts
2) Baseball 3) Technologies (TV, Computers, etc) 4) ALIENS! | ||
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DeathCompany
United States53 Posts
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DeepElemBlues
United States5079 Posts
People will look down on us because it's human nature to imagine the people of the past as being brutish and stupid. Of course the people of 1000 years ago that we look down on today never made murder factories like the Nazis and stuff like that. Hopefully the people of the year 3012 won't have something even worse to point to to say, "see, the people of the 20th-21st centuries weren't as murderous as us!" Also, robots will run on alcohol, and the mutants will not be allowed to leave their sewer home. And no one will be racist, except against those damn aliens from Tau Omega VII. Damn lizards want to steal our asteroids, do they?! | ||
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adwodon
United Kingdom592 Posts
On October 24 2012 01:46 DeepElemBlues wrote: As for my opinion, in 1000 years we'll have colonies on the moon, Mars, and probably several of the moons of Jupiter. Nation-states will still exist and will have autonomy over their territory on Earth, but everything in space will be (more or less) a global venture. People will look down on us because it's human nature to imagine the people of the past as being brutish and stupid. Of course the people of 1000 years ago that we look down on today never made murder factories like the Nazis and stuff like that. Hopefully the people of the year 3012 won't have something even worse to point to to say, "see, the people of the 20th-21st centuries weren't as murderous as us!" Also, robots will run on alcohol, and the mutants will not be allowed to leave their sewer home. And no one will be racist, except against those damn aliens from Tau Omega VII. Damn lizards want to steal our asteroids, do they?! If you want to go properly future tech I don't see why colonies on planets are necessary, its possible that at that time we could work completely in space, we grow crops in space and just use planets to mine from. Maybe use earth would just be one big nature reserve, who knows, or maybe an underclass or privileged elite will be the only ones living on earth (depending on whether its seen as preferable). It's possible an ice age may force us off earth, or at least drastically halt progress, so who knows, maybe they will look back will envy at our time of 'bliss'. Frankly its impossible to predict, and 1000 years isn't a long time in terms of human development, mindsets have lasted longer. What tends to change us as a society is shifts in technology or societal structure / beliefs (formally - religion), which is why we see such a huge shift in the current generation and how they think, they essentially live in a much bigger world where communicating with friends across the planet could be an every day occurrence, and news reaches us almost at the speed of light (or at least at the speed someone on scene can type). There may well be another big shift in terms of development but you can't predict it, at least not something that could occur in 100+ years, try predicting the internet before computers, not going to happen. The only other thing that is possible, but hopefully not likely is society, or at least western society could collapse. It happened to the Romans and every other major society before us so there is no reason why it couldn't, and it wouldn't be a fast process either, whilst the central empire of the Romans collapsed relatively quickly, life continued for normal folk for a long time as the Barbarians weren't interested in destroying anything or maintaining anything so things just slowly withered. So really I think its only safe to say that there will be change, whether radical increase in population, or drastic drop offs. Technological leaps, or crashes caused by unforeseen disasters. Things could also remain stable, a few ups and downs but a general upward trend over time. There's simply no way to predict it. | ||
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neggro
United States591 Posts
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Dyme
Germany523 Posts
On October 23 2012 12:55 KurtistheTurtle wrote: 2) Baseball lol I don't think humanity will make it for another 1000 years. | ||
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Tewks44
United States2032 Posts
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Callynn
Netherlands917 Posts
On October 21 2012 23:43 decaf wrote: Any intellectual society will always look down at one that hasn't gotten rid of religion yet. <3 1000% agree. For lack of a better response to the OP, which seems impossible to answer. | ||
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thezanursic
5489 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". You are assuming that the amount of knowledge that we can achieve is limitless. Sooner or latter it will stagnate and it happening in the next 1000 is not that unlikely (or we could just end up killing each other). | ||
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EchoZ
Japan5041 Posts
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Voltaire
United States1485 Posts
I think people will look back and think things like circumcision and body piercings as barbaric. We'll be viewed as unintelligent, primitive beasts. | ||
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Razac
Netherlands101 Posts
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NicksonReyes
Philippines4431 Posts
Applicable if there would be some catastrophe or something... | ||
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Ashakyre
United States99 Posts
2) Religion. I would say given how interconnected the world is today, how crowded it is with people, how fragile our systems of production and credit are, how quickly we can outstrip our resources, and how easily we can destroy ourselves, it's more imperative than ever to find a way to practice morality. I would say it's the responsibility of rational and compassionate people to find ways to help people be more rational and compassionate. I would say broadsiding a person's worldview is a rather short-sighted way to guide them to rationality and compassion. You need to speak to people in a language they understand, and use symbols that hold meaning for them. There's a lot of threads talking about how useless the arts are, and that they serve no purpose. And there's a lot of threads talking about how stupid religion is, and that it's ignorant and destructive. Say what you will, but art and religion are nothing if not ways to speak to people through powerful symbols. Even rationalist have their symbols. The question is not whether art and religion are bad or good bad, but how to make the best use of them. Regarding the OP, there are 4 things which, personally, I believe will still be true 1000 years from now: (Please excuse my paraphrase.) 1. There will be change. 2. There will be suffering. 3. Suffering will exist where there is clinging to impermanent things. 4. Suffering will cease where clinging to to impermanent things ceases. | ||
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Stye
Poland40 Posts
On October 24 2012 22:25 Ashakyre wrote: 1. There will be change. 2. There will be suffering. 3. Suffering will exist where there is clinging to impermanent things. 4. Suffering will cease where clinging to to impermanent things ceases. 1. Life is impermanent 2. We are genetically coded to cling to (most importantly our) life (it's the most basic rule of instinct, one that can't be overridden - or else evolution stops and population dies, obviously, survival is crucial for life to exist) combining 1 and 2 with your ideas (or whoever you cited) it seems that life implies suffering, which I don't agree with. So either that implication is true or your 3rd point is invalid. Let's hope it is, or we're truly miserable. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
or "I especially fancy the classical composers like Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles" | ||
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Simberto
Germany11556 Posts
This is too general. The only thing needed is to survive long enough to procreate. Survival after that is optional. | ||
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Stye
Poland40 Posts
On October 25 2012 01:01 Simberto wrote: 2. We are genetically coded to cling to (most importantly our) life (it's the most basic rule of instinct, one that can't be overridden - or else evolution stops and population dies, obviously, survival is crucial for life to exist) This is too general. The only thing needed is to survive long enough to procreate. Survival after that is optional. Yes, that's what I was talking about obviously, sorry if I was too vague with it : ) | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
Theyll wonder how stupid we were to go to starbucks, get a waxed carboard glass with another carboard ring no to burn the fingers and then throw it away after a single use. lol | ||
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