The year 3000

[Abramul]

An Ecumenopolis would work, however:

A world undergoing this level of hyper-development would presumably either have its food imported from other planets, or grown in vast orbital or subterranean hydroponics facilities. A civilization capable of building an ecumenopolis is almost by definition at least ranked as Type I on the Kardashev scale.

(Wikipedia)

 

As for colonies: the first non-Earth colony will either be on the moon, or Earth-orbit. I'd guess a moon colony is more likely, especially if a robotic 'seed' mission is viable. (Sending small robots, which refine materials and build bigger robots, which then build a base.)

 

First orbital colony would likely be an asteroid moved into a stable orbit, and hollowed out. This has a number of advantages, in particular that it wouldn't be necessary to ship large amounts of material from the surface, and it would be an excellent construction yard.

[Tiberiu911]

The rate humankind grows, I voted for Urbanised and over populated. There will come a point where Earth alone will not be able to feed its growing population, so colonies will probally start appearing, I doubt on other planets, but things like Abramul mentioned in the above post seem plausible (Earth orbit, Moon, etc).

 

Ironic thing, a war kills people, but with the death of those people, the population will diminuish, hence allowing others to live :mellow: . In 1000 years, we should see a couple large-scale wars that might keep the overgrowing population to a halt, hence going against the over populated choice.

 

By 3000, we'll probably know everything about the brain. And shoot a few micro computers in it at birth, making us superintelligent. I don't know

 

Yeah, medecine advances quite fast. Human kind might turn into cyborgs.

 

An interesting thing I noticed, is that we can't predict the future (yet :ph34r: ). I was looking through some old books a long time ago, and I found this book that dated from the 70's or so. There was a page in it which showed what the year 2000 was going to look like. In the illustration, there where flying cars, men in space suits and large scale technological buildings everywhere.

 

Who knows, year 3000 might not be so different as it is now, though we are talking about a millenia jump and not 30 years.

[KzinistZerg]

I think it's impossible to predict. Look where we weer at 0 AD, 500 AD, 1000 AD, 1500 AD, 1800 AD, 1900 AD and even in 1950, even, hell, in the 80s and 70s. Everything changes too quick and there's too many possibilities. I think we'll end up with cities but probably more environmentally friendly technology, and more people. Or civilization will explode.

[ResidentWeevil2077]

Actually, things started to change quickly in the past 60-70 yrs. Men have gone to the moon, the spacesuit thing is kind of a given (NASA is wanting to send men to Mars now!), our buildings would look futuristic to a simpleton from the Nifty Fifties, but the flying car part is just plain insane. In 1000 yrs, perhaps we might see anti-gravity boosters installed on vehicles, but in 1000 yrs, things could change. It's very dangerous to even think about that. Hell, I don't even care to think about what I'm gonna do tomorrow for Pete's sake!

[Povuholo]

Okay so now we've heard all kinds of things about the environment, health and technology...

 

But how about computer technology?

 

How do you think games would look like in the year 3000? Textures of higher quality than real life objects? :P Being able to feel everything and move the character in an action game with your body, and pointing at locations and give instructions through talking in RTS games?

[ninja_lord666]

Okay so now we've heard all kinds of things about the environment, health and technology...

 

But how about computer technology?

 

How do you think games would look like in the year 3000? Textures of higher quality than real life objects? :P Being able to feel everything and move the character in an action game with your body, and pointing at locations and give instructions through talking in RTS games?

 

I think games would be reality! there would be special domes (the future will have dome buildings) where optical illusion (of course very realistic looking :P ) would be the buildings, rocks, trees, items, monsters, NPCs, etc. and you could play the game with your real body (inguries would obviously be fake).

...THAT would be a great game, lol.

[Tiberiu911]

What about a special pill (spelling?) you take before you go to sleep which is the video game. You play in your own imagination, in your dreams, while sleeping! Buy a new pill and play another video game the next night! Play online with your friends and do whatever you can do in real life in the comfort of your bed. Woohooz!

 

Though personally, I think the term Video Game will dissapear from human vocabularry, to be remplaced with something else. Games will evolve, you won't see the same things in 1000 years.

[ninja_lord666]

Though personally, I think the term Video Game will dissapear from human vocabularry, to be remplaced with something else. Games will evolve, you won't see the same things in 1000 years.

 

I agree, I don't think video game will be an accurate term if we are playing games with holographs and in our dreams...personally, I believe English will be an extict language. Something easier and more phonetic (ironic that the word phonetic isn't phoneticaly spelled) will arise, or maybe we will be able to speak through telepathic waves...although that would kind of fall under the "evolution" area and is thus is impossible by 3000 (see my previous post on page 1)...

[Abramul]

...or maybe we will be able to speak through telepathic waves...although that would kind of fall under the "evolution" area and is thus is impossible by 3000 (see my previous post on page 1)...

What's infeasible about 'telepathic' implants?

 

Of course, this raises the question of "What is telepathy?", but that's sufficiently broad that it would best be left to a separate thread.

[ninja_lord666]

What's infeasible about 'telepathic' implants?

 

Of course, this raises the question of "What is telepathy?", but that's sufficiently broad that it would best be left to a separate thread.

 

You're right, I didn't even think about implants :blush: How silly of me. Yeah, by then we would have mastered not only machinery, but also human biology. We would have robotic cyborgs :ohmy: Also, we would most likely know everything about the human genome and most likely be able to biologicaly change ourselves. Suffice to say, we wouldn't be entirely human anymore... :(