This Is What Humans Will Look Like in 1,000 Years
About 10,000 years ago, humans evolved a tolerance to cow’s milk; over the past 150 years, we’ve added 10 centimetres to our average height; and over the past 65 years, we’ve added 20 years to the average lifespan, mostly thanks to advances in science.
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Can genetic science make humans more efficient at using energy in the body?
Is it ok to take on obesity using genetics so that people do not become fat?
I’d like to see more efficient use of water in the body…
furious said:
- Can genetic science make humans more efficient at using energy in the body?
I’d like to see more efficient use of water in the body…
Yes, less visits to the toilet would be great.
Why do we have the shape we have?
Tau.Neutrino said:
Why do we have the shape we have?
I know there are averaged faces of people around the world of countries
but has anyone averages out all male faces, female faces and both all male and female faces of everyone around the world?
and the same for shapes of the body?
What unique abilities will we have in 1000 years?
Tau.Neutrino said:
This Is What Humans Will Look Like in 1,000 YearsAbout 10,000 years ago, humans evolved a tolerance to cow’s milk; over the past 150 years, we’ve added 10 centimetres to our average height; and over the past 65 years, we’ve added 20 years to the average lifespan, mostly thanks to advances in science.
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And we’ve developed a resistance to hard liquor on account of it being deadly. That’s added a fair chunk of that 20 years.
The increase in height has been associated with an increase in weight.
What humans will look like in 1,000 years. Just the same. 10,000 years. Just the same, except we’ll all be dead. 100,000 years. Noticably different. 1,000,000 years. So different that we’ll almost be unrecognisable.
Tau.Neutrino said:
Tau.Neutrino said:
Why do we have the shape we have?I know there are averaged faces of people around the world of countries
but has anyone averages out all male faces, female faces and both all male and female faces of everyone around the world?
and the same for shapes of the body?
I’d be interested to see a study showing what the average person on each continent looks like now. TV is no use as it is seriously biased towards pretty faces and bodies. People of Walmart would be a better guide, but even that’s biased towards pretty faces and bodies a bit, because the ugliest people seldom leave home. A study of what people in hospital look like, perhaps.
> What unique abilities will we have in 1000 years?
Longsightedness, because it imparts a resistance to overuse of the internet. No sense of humour, because it imparts a resistance to memes. Illiteracy, ditto. Forgetfulness, because it imparts a resistance to contraception. Essentially, in the short term humanity will be evolving resistance to all forms of addiction other than sex.
We’ll have parasites that are better adapted to living off us by then, by becoming less deadly in order to spread to a greater number of people.
There will be all sorts of exciting new potential for human development through technology in the decades ahead, but will mainstream politics, ethics and mass education keep pace, to ensure that it’s used for the best?
Tau, perhaps you should read this first before making predictions. A link from sm.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention?CMP=share_btn_fb
Bubblecar said:
There will be all sorts of exciting new potential for human development through technology in the decades ahead, but will mainstream politics, ethics and mass education keep pace, to ensure that it’s used for the best?
As you surmise, the simple answer is no, no, and no.
Mainstream politics is heading for a global crash.
Mainstream ethics is getting more bizarre. I predict it will go the period doubling route to chaos.
I’m beginning to realise that mass education was a mistake because it killed off the apprentiship system. The best education teaches everybody something different, in accord with natural talents.
How soon a nuclear WW3 is always uppermost in my thoughts.
Most humans did not develop a tolerance to lactose 10000 years ago.
mollwollfumble said:
Bubblecar said:
There will be all sorts of exciting new potential for human development through technology in the decades ahead, but will mainstream politics, ethics and mass education keep pace, to ensure that it’s used for the best?
As you surmise, the simple answer is no, no, and no.
Mainstream politics is heading for a global crash.
Mainstream ethics is getting more bizarre. I predict it will go the period doubling route to chaos.
I’m beginning to realise that mass education was a mistake because it killed off the apprentiship system. The best education teaches everybody something different, in accord with natural talents.
How soon a nuclear WW3 is always uppermost in my thoughts.
I think the biggest issues, (apart from environmental) in the next 20 years will be in developed countries the flight of manufacturing and rise of robots and algorithms making a lot of clue and white collar workers redundant, or so increasing efficiency, many less will be required. What do do with masses of unemployed? This time it’s not so much Luddite revolution, computers and robotics will be much more pervasive.
An ageing China, what are they gonna do, I don’t reckon hey can get rich enough quick enough, and allied with that, how capital is consolodating into a smaller minority in all the developed countries.
The rise of Africa, I expect at some stage capital will find Africa as its place of employment, the last reserve of poorly paid humanity.
And how to manage borders. With a connected world the poor can see what the others have, and they want some. All over the world borders and walls are being erected to stop human migrations driven by war and economics.
To expand a bit on capital consolidating, there has always been a 1% and the poorest can go get buggered, but there was a period in the west where the largesse was pushed downward, social housing, living money or wage. This seems to have stalled or stopped.