I think it will be exactly like it was 20000 years ago. Sent from my iPhone 5s using Grasscity Forum..💨⛽ï¸
There will be no religion. We will be closer to one race, with skin color varying very little. Also I believe that we are moving in a Bio-mechanical direction in which we can upload consciousness, replace limbs with bio-mechanical parts, etc.
I want to live in whatever world you live in lol. Religion won't ever go away Possibly. But if we move into space the opposite might happen as humans spend generations isolated. Hell fucking yea -yuri
Religion is fading now. We are now aware of brain biases and the reasons that religions formed. It takes a LONG time to filter information down to the public, but there will be a time in which religion is non existent just as we have discarded ideas in the past. When I refer to one skin color, I was referring to people on this planet. While it's tough to predict evolutionary traits because you never know what will work or be beneficial, I can't even start to predict what evolution would look like on other planets in response to different conditions. For example, people on one planet might get shorter due to increased gravity. People on another planet might evolve to be extremely tall because of a weak gravitational force. It's impossible to predict what will happen.
I hope you are right. I realize that. And you are correct. But it will be the same still. Instead of people from different countries looking different, it will be planets instead. -yuri
It might be, but it depends on how far down the rabbit hole you'd like to go. Conditions on different planets vary just as they do here on Earth. You could have a single population of people with the same skin color adapt to different areas on the same planet and we could revert back to different skin colors. Who knows what would happen? You could have people cut off from each other by extreme weather events. You could have some weird mutation work in one area and not in another. Too many variables.
I think you are forgetting 2 things tho. One is sexual attraction. Most people are most sexually attracted to people who resemble their parents. The other is I'm sure, there will he people trying to preserve bloodlines and diversity. We may see one skin color become a majority (probly tan), and other colors become a minority. But I don't think it will be uniform. I don't think earth for example, will ever be all one skin color -yuri
That's a perfect example of what I"m talking about with too many variables. First of all, as a behaviorist, I can tell you that sexual attraction towards people resembling your parents isn't set in stone. It's a hypothesis that needs to be studied more. Also, variables like that, even when true, are trumped by other desires and environmental factors. Second of all, we are talking about 20.000 years from now. That might not be an issue at all. I do think that the world would be one skin color if our species survives on Earth long enough. There are relatively few people who are isolated enough to preserve their genetics. In 20000 years, even the tribes that are isolated now will be a thing of the past. However I think it would take longer for one skin color to be the norm. There will be some point in which we have been altered so much by evolution that we are a different species. I'm all for diversity though. I'm white but I love dark skin, which is weird, because my parents are as white as I am. I don't know about you, but I only have one regret in life and it is this. I wish I could see what changes occur and live long enough for us to discover as much as we can about the universe. Shit Yuri. We could burn one and talk about the reasons our species went extinct. Wouldn't that be cool?
I think in 20000 years humans as a race will being extinct , another superior species will take over . They will most probably be a lot more intellegent , bigger and stronger . Maybe we haven't finished evolving , who knows what could be roaming round in that time . I love thinking about this stuff when I'm stoned
[SIZE=10.5pt]While the hypothesizing about sexual attraction and skin color makes sense in a shorter time span, it seems folly in a 20,000 year down the road scenario. Considering the rapid rise of technology and its global impact, it is safe to assume that IF we still exist in 20,000 years without an interruption, then tech will have continued to evolve in a positive (read: no nuclear holocaust, or technological standstill) way. If we take a look at how medicine has evolved in the past 50 years alone, and how we are inserting more and more artificial parts into people, it seems that we are on the precipice of human evolution no longer being biological, but rather technological. If all tech were wiped out and the species got another dozen millennia without it, we would continue to evolve biologically, but that is not what is happening. Technology advances significantly faster than human biology. Before the next step in >human< evolution even gets to happen, countless steps in human-technological evolution will take place. Legs, for a hypothetical example, won't get to evolve into more efficient legs because they'll be replaced by more efficient and durable bionics tens of thousands of years earlier than it would have taken biology to naturally evolve them. Along those lines, aesthetics continue to be influenced by technology as well. Skin color, for example, could very well be completely extinct as humanity has transcended to a different type of “bodyâ€. This is obviously where you can let the imagination run wild because who knows how far we'll advance in 20,000 years of uninterrupted technological growth. We may all be in the singularity much, much sooner than 20K according to futurists like Ray Kurzweil. Considering the growth of the video game industry and the impending proliferation of virtual reality in the mainstream, it seems only plausible that we are heading in that direction. The Matrix might not be a conspiracy we are all subject to in the present, but a future we all, or some, willingly choose. Keeping a body in a pod and simulating its reality, is after all far more cost efficient for any socialist-minded government than paying for housing, healthcare, food, etc. This is only exacerbated by the growing population of the planet and would allow billions, if not trillions, to be “housed†in miniscule space.[/SIZE] [SIZE=10.5pt]Furthermore, even if we are not in a singularity, and keeping with the video game theme, skin color may be completely chosen the way gaming avatars are customized. We could choose to make ourselves neon green, chrome, or see-through with the push of a button…..or a thought. Finally, people always talk about where we will be in a distant future and the conversation usually turns technological without addressing the philosophical. I can't even begin to fathom the mindset of an advanced human being 20K years from now. They may completely evolve beyond everything and anything we consider rational, sane, or “real†in today's world. Grasping the mind of a human being 20K years in the future seems reminiscent of what the major world religions say it is like to grasp the mind of god. [/SIZE]
Literally anything could happen. What is the sense of imagining it aside from pure speculative assumptions. It's like when people talk about winning the lotto and what they would do. Just being the Debbie Downer here
I'd like to think it would be an amazing place, for some space traveling alien species, to discover and study the remains and ruins of human technology. Those space traveling aliens most likely highly developed and evolved humans coming back to check out the "home planet" spoken of in their ancient religions... Religions which could be based on instruction booklets to an mri machine. Who knows...
There are only two possibilities for mankind: 1-we go extinct 2-we evolve. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum