The year 3008

[Redlac]

I don't recall it saying how old the Earth is in my NIV Bible. >.> There have been some folks that have traced the genealogies back to give an estimate of something like 4000 years, which I'll admit is a bit madder than a guess of 14,000. I digress.

Back to the Original Post for me. In 1,000 years any sort of crazy stuff could happen. Jesus might well turn up, and prove all those 'when Jesus gets back this will happen' theories wrong. Or he might not. Theology is fun. Oops, digressing again.

We could live in a 'utopia' much like the one in The Time Machine by HG Wells. As for us, we might end up like Wells' Martians, big brains with a face that rely on our machines to do everything for us. Or life may just go on as it has these past millennia, people going to work, coming home to the wife, moaning about the government.. but doing it with whizzier gadgets than we have now.

 

[ianuam]

I, for one, hope to God the world doesn't last that long.

The Earth by my estimates is about 14,000 years old and when Jesus was crucified (33 AD) he said multiple times that the end is coming very soon. Chances are nigh that the world will last even 300 years more in my book.
By that time we might get a human beyond Mars, probably will not build anything on the moon (But if there is somethnig, it's a private affair completed by Lockheed Martin and General Electric), computers will have gotten much faster and oil and gas will have long been depleted and instead of adopting greener systems, we just lazily fall into sub-anarchy.

I hope you're joking. I seriously hope you're joking.. what you're just going to ignore all the evidence that the earth is billions of years old? Over an old book?! On a brighter note, i'll review my earlier post and add a good probability of anarchy in there.

 

[ThePoodonkis]

Oh yeah. My foreseeing of the future.

We will obtain interstellar travel. Moon, Mars and the system around Sirius.
Anti-gravity shoes, 3D Holograms, and Laser-ears! Disease will be a thing of the past.
Downside: music and film will be so terrible around 2600 that it will collapse upon itself and go back to classical and black-white silent movies.

 

[Godysseus]

We will have Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, actually happening, in 3008.

I have my fingers crossed.

 

[Knight Templar]

we'll have will have turned our greed to the other worlds

Only because this one would be used up.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

The still living heads of the original cast of Star Trek in jars. Nuff said.

 

[Hey Joe]

Mutant. Super. Powers.

'nuff said

 

[Xelt]

Well 1000 years ago, all we had was iron, stone, wood and earth. We then used combinations of these to kill each other. There weren't even simple devices (the wheel barrow had not been invented) and significant parts of the world were no more advanced then they were 1000 years before due to various collapses and dark ages.

This seems to be a pattern throughout history. Powerful culture rises and spreads peace, cheerios and mathematics throughout the world only to collapse and regress the world back a handfull of centuries.

As it is we are overdue for a dark age so I think in 1000 years time the world won't be that different from what it will be in 200 years time.

So I'm thinking bases on the moon and mars, hyper efficient computer thingy mababobies pretty much doing away with governments, an industry that captures asteroids for materials, people genetically engineered in the womb to be healthier, stronger smarter and more resistant than we are now.

This is similar to what i believe, i mean, if you look at how many advances the Romans did, then when they failed, how long it took for any of that to come back, I believe this will happen to us some day, probably in the near future, but on a larger scale.
In the year 3008 i think we'll either be where we are now, or only a little more advanced, but we'll still be destroying the planet.