How do you predict humanity will eventually turn out?

I think the planet has a way of healing itself. If humanity continues to abuse the planet, she will rebel and rid herself of humanity.

Thousands of years ahead is way too complicated. But if you would lower that to 100 years later, you may get better answers. For one aspect, I think more people are going to grasp liberal views.

@Blackberry and do you agree that more people will turn away from religion as we know it?

My hope is we will be glorious beautiful beings that could fly and communicate by thoughts, devoid of disease and hate, ignorance and violence…yet my guess is we will most probably end up looking like those goblins and orcs in the Lord of the Rings movies, miserable, flesh-eating creatures devastated by wars and stupid political partisanships, ha, ha…

@mazingerz88 my prediction too!

@ZEPHYRA Yes!

I predict that our environment will gradually become inhabitable. Due to our obsession with making money, the reason why, I’m daring to assume, that most forms of technological advent exists…we won’t do anything about it. Famine and disease will be our undoing, most likely accelerated by natural disasters.

One potential outcome, although my record at predictions ain’t that great.

@Symbeline ; did you mean uninhabitable?

Woops lol, yeah, that.

Do you all think some kind of Savior will come round to help out? A second Christ?

@ZEPHYRA Personally, no.

I think humanity will mature as a species and evolve to become more cooperative. I think that there will be no war, less cruelty, more peace. Science will have evolved to the point that sickness is unheard of and death is a decision. No group would be discriminated against, every person will be considered inherently equal.

Or at least that is what I hope for.

I’m a firm believer that nothing lasts forever, and I guess humanity is no different. I think we may well find ourselves in another war, but the planet won’t be destroyed. Rather, whoever is left will see how futile all the fighting is, and commit themselves to establishing a lasting era of peace.

EDIT- Then, of course, the Lasting Era of Peace will only last so long. After that, humanity will probably be well and truly fucked.

@athenasgriffin Thank God you added thay “hope” part at the end, I thought you were living on another planet for a moment!!

Extinct…..

@ZEPHYRA You wouldn’t be the first one! Lol, someone’s got to have high hopes.

@ZEPHYRA Yes, we already are now.

We will have conquered all diseases, genetic and otherwise, and will have optimized humans through the elimination of genetic propensities toward physical and mental problems. We will be out among the stars, colonizing outward in an ever-expanding globe. Beyond that, who can say. The mind boggles. : )

I hope in 3000 years humanity will be no more.

We will live together in small groups. Countries will no longer exist. The ground will still be a little radioactive.

Eventual extinction. But before, that we of the 21st century will be seen for the primitives that we are, with our abject worship of the e-gods and shiny metals. Exhaustion of energy supplies will eliminate our dependence on things that plug in and force a reevaluation of priorities.

At some point I imagine a tribal or village mentality will resume ascendancy as we return to a subsistence-based system with interdependence among small groups. Not that I idealize this: I think it’ll be just as brutal as it ever was. The high-tech world we take for granted today will be mythologized and fantasized to the point that no one will think it really existed.

And if we let our solid books go, there’ll be no records.

@Jeruba You’re kidding about books lasting 1,000 years, right?

The oldest Hindu and Judaic texts are several thousand years old. They may not be in good shape, but they can be read in daylight by the human eye without the use of an interpretive device that requires a power supply and compatible software.

It’s hard to tell. Human kind went through a lot of changes. But I believe what happened in the past will happen again. Though it’s easy just to figure it out humans will evolve even greater because there’s no limit to the mind and imagination. And since we worked through most of the things till now we’ll do the same in the future too.

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You’re all a bunch of cynics! Here I am, dying of incurable cancer and type 2 diabetes, and I have more hope for the future than ANY of you! SHAME! : P

You know the saying about biting the hand that feeds? We’ve pretty much done that to earth and nature, and I’m expecting us to be bitch slapped so hard our head spins around our neck and then flies off like it’s got a helicopter rotor attached.

Nature’s terrifying as is, just wait ‘til it strikes us back..

@ddude1116

It’s already begun to do so.

@CaptainHarley Ha yeah, looking at it that way, we’re kinda bad lol. What makes you have hope for the future?

@Symbeline

I suppose I have trust in God and in my grandchildren. Don’t know any other explanation for it.

Like predicted by Gene Roddenberry. Minus the warp drive.

I don’t think I’m being a cynic at all, @CaptainHarley, or a pessimist either. In fact I think we’d probably be better off living more simply and closer to the earth, even if regressing to that condition would mean catastrophe in the short term. I just don’t romanticize the idea.

Also I don’t think humanity is going to last forever because I don’t think any material thing is going to last forever. Hence eventual extinction. But “eventual” could be a long way down the line.

I don’t quite see what health has to do with it, though. How do you know whether I’m being treated for any life-threatening conditions?