The Last Human - A Glimpse Into The Far Future

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My mom said this her entire life

Cue the extreme evangelicals trying to decide for all of us, accelerating human suffering so they can be vaccumed into heaven. Religion is perfectly fine, but forcing beliefs on all of society not so much. Hope common sense and progress prevail!

@@brotherbluto4524 You know I heard they literally are trying to end the world

@@turbochips6148 Yeah, I wish it was just fan fiction but I’ve heard it suggested they don’t care about climate change for this reason and the only reason they support Israel is to make this happen as well. They don’t believe the Jews are going to the same place they are however lol

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in the far future, we’ll go from ideas about mars to terraforming it.

More like the things we once worshipped are now trampled by us under our feet. It depends on the perspective in wich you are thinking. You can take it as a positive or a negative thing.

I will always remember that phrase. I really love it.

@@The.Doctor2 It's positive. "Trampling" is a bit exaggerated, and I also think it's not a good thing if objects get worshipped for no logical or scientific reason.

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Same, Im going to come back to rewatch this video whenever I feel guilty about wanting kids.

It makes me kinda sad... imagine, humanity could colonize the galaxy... and we will not be part of it.

@@ulliulli cryo freezing is always an option

@@Bruh234 That is a fantasy, and too many people think all this magical sci-fi tech is just a stones throw away.
Reality is, we're born at the best of times, and the worst of times...

Same her! I've been realy struggling the past view weeks with things like motivation but things like this make it worthwhile

and yet i still had a small panic attack when he said the will only be enhabitable for 500 millions years and the sent me on a im going to die spiral.

More people also might mean more problem solvers

if we don't focus on the quality of those humans, more humans=more problems because we already see our societies collapsing because it cannot drag all those sick-minded, corrupt, and inhuman people.

Technically that's true but equally more problems mean more solutions.
The interesting bit is to get the solutions across. A whale has many many more cells than a human, yet a human has a very different experience because of the way the cells are communicating with each other. Existence exists because it can and it will create everything that is possible. And everything is possible infinity.
What's relevant to us right now is how we communicate with each other because that is what shapes our experience and makes the difference between a shitty and a great experience. It is all about how we connect. With ourselves, our humanity, with earth, with the universe, with everything. Limits are finite and therefore inherently temporary. So that what truly is is unlimited and never ending. And if we recognise ourselves in that, we are too =)

Since we currently inhabit just one planet, we confuse overpopulation with having more humans.

Really there is only one problem: entropy.

Okay

I really needed the fuel boost, if you catch my meaning.

Cute animations don't really represent the reality of the human condition very well. We are primitive apes and even the smartest and most capable of us make egregious errors in calculation/projection all the time. Just look at how poorly Europe handled their transition to "renewable" energy.. They are going back to coal fired power plants at a furious rate because solar and wind totally can't meet capacity.

Sure but whats the point of it all? Why would we care about that future if we wont even be here. Whats the end goal?

@@Subs1338 think of your childeren that you might have or nieces and nephews, they will grow up in a world we set up for them. and so will our grandchildren and so on. the point is that we want to give the people we love and the best possible world to grow up in, because we love them. this goes for strangers too, I personally feel responsible for my family but also for other people my actions effect.

Must have been fun having an entire species of people similar to humans (Homo erectus) to unite all Homo sapiens against. The racism must have been GLORIOUS. We need another sub-human species to fuck over for the benefit of all society!

Yeah, also I wonder why they would put a nuclear tower instead of a coal tower as one of the only "death" routes at 3:45 when we know coal is a lot more damaging to us and the environment?
As an educational channel they should be more responsible.

@@Boa796 Because one of the easiest ways we imagine us all being dead is throwing thousands of nukes on each other because someone stopped thinking and started a nuclear war, it's not there to symbolize an accident in a nuclear facility and considering that yes a full detonation of all the nuclear warheads on the planet may actually cause us to go extinct - it's at least worth a reminder.

Something I always found very interesting about this is the fact that with quadrillions of people there are probably hundreds who will be studying you. Everything you post online, every picture you have ever taken, they probably will know everything about you and how you lived just because we are some of the first humans who can document our way of living.

*There is an AGENDA using all this enviromental blah blah blah to achieve their their self interests, they give a SHIT to environment or to human rights or to animal rights or black people rights etc, all these blah blah blah is a tool.*
*THEY GIVE A SHIT to you, they are bilionares who wants to be more biliorare.*
They pay the media, they pay the press and they pay fake scientific researchs, they pay artists, they pay everything to keep the lies and the Agenda.
Look Greta Turberg, she is supported by George Soros.

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One of the main reasons I was inspired to start learning science

yea, I wish I was younger when this channel started!

A dethrone is in order.

@@riveratrackrunner I mean, You made me canckle.

Well most of us are still stupid

And now we are in the process of conquering our imaginary gods entirely and permanently!
As a former religious person, I find it oh so ironically hilarious that we humans today like to laugh at the moon and sun worshippers of ancient times to then go and worship our own silly made-up gods! 🤣

and we are also going from worshipping god to understanding that it's a lie

They really should have chosen a more optimistic title!

Yeah but at last ...the factual bitter existential crisis truth...."someday later or sooner ,the last human will be born"

thinking ahead

youtube will probably wont exist if that time comes cause of its current state lol

Yes

I'm also gonna say hi here!

someone put a rickroll in this reply section

Considering how many doomsday & rapture cults there have been it really makes for depressing realization how prevalent Narcissism is.

@@Kuolonen I don't think that it is in any sense a problem of narcissism from the cult members, what does not include the cult head who is most probably totally egotistical and narcissistic. The average person end up in a cult because we all have an inner need for religion ( definition being: a system of BELEIEVES ) in our lives.

@@Kuolonen Narcissism sugar coated as religion

Positive nihilism is great but it's frustrating how prevalent narcissistic nihilism has become recently.
Or I just need to stay away from Reddit for a while.

I mean, most of the others didn't have nuclear weapons. This isn't really a good application of 'past performance indicates future returns'.

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Lets spam Bengali replies to confuse our Western friends

And then we spent 50 years doing nothing in terms of further exploration because the was no weapons race impetus. Which Also sais something sad about humans

but still didn't realize that they can't choose whether to exist or not in this world,.. ask your parent or your grandparents if they can do that, ...until you realize not even the big bang can happen by itself

Wow. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your religious/ideological upbringing like?

You're smack dab in the middle of an absolute terror (evolution of sentient beings capable of suffering, with absolutely every single one of them having a life that ends in catastrophe) that won't be mercifully snuffed out until about 4 billion years from now when the sun becomes a red giant. And by the way, it's all literally for nothing.

Found the JW. 😂

@@fictionisfake4280 idk about you man, imma keep going and eating velvet cake until the day I die, hopefully buy a few countries by then

Ah yes, Jehovah's Witness? Haha

Damn, they're 10 years old??

Subjective

After you filter the propaganda from it then, yes, it can be quite educational. Take this video for instance. The poor souls really think that there is a slight possibility that us humans are going to save the planet, be kind to one another and traverse and populate deep space haha. I guess the only history Kurzgezagt researches is from the Triassic period. If they did a little more research, they'd understand how ridiculous this video is.
I will tell you instead what's going to happen. We gonna pump the last drop of oil out of the Earth and catch the last fish from the sea, and it will be THAT moment in which we realize, we can't eat money.
Cheers!

@@MrLeroyFox Damn, you didn't watch the video, did you? The message is obviously "please, for the love of everyone who might life, change your behavior". But ofcourse, having a pessimistic perspective and refusing that there might be a chance that we survive, and therefore our own decisions don't matter is easier.
(Also, I am not sure how this video is propaganda? Propaganda means state (or at the very least, multi natioal comporetion) sponsered (mis-)information campaign.)

They actually started in 2014. Hopefully they will do a retrospective on all of the good things that happened in the last decade for the tenth anniversary.

And then we have failed to go back because we're too worried about making sure everyone knows that the White people who put us on the moon are properly treated as the demons they are.
But I'm sure Sha'quin'ta and Dar'quaan are gonna be the ones making us an extrasolar species lmao

The moment he said that, I just knew it would be mentioned in the comments and I must admit, that was quite a significant line!

We went from humans worshiping the moon to humans not worshiping or respecting allah. 😑😑

@@abdalrahmanassi4579 good riddance. religion is a plague to our society.

I love that quote but the sad reality is 12 people have been there, more will probably go there because of another type of weapons race.
The rockets were built as delivery systems for nukes back then, hopefully we can deliver life instead, but I sincerely doubt it looking at our tribalistic and ballistic ways. x)

But maybe you will. Totally understand the dread but none of us know what happens after we die. You could be born again in a new body with your same mind. You could start over. You could observe all of time and space the second you die and become God. We just don't know. So be excited for the future no matter if you are "alive" for it in your current form.

Facts I really wanna know how it plays out lol

@@angbald very interesting thought

Think of how we were thousands of years ago, though we can’t be sure we’ll see the next thousands of years, at least we were able to experience things like electricity, Internet, BLUETOOTH! Man I don’t haven understand how that works. We’re sending robots millions of miles away in space and have telescopes that can see so many light years away. Astronauts are real, not a fantasy anymore, people have gone into space that’s incredible! I’m sure future accomplishments were unfathomable to our distant ancestors, but also for future descendants of humanity. No matter where we are in our evolutionary story, there will always be something greater. Let’s consider beautiful and momentous things that we have accomplished, and keep in mind that in addition to greater future technological and societal advancements, there will be an equal amount of negative possibilities. Much love

Although the people in the distant future might also lament that they are not born early enough to see where things started millions of years ago. You are always born too late to do things in the past, and born too early to do things in the future.

They were starting to gain a reputation for constantly inducing existential crises in people, and I'm sure they noticed. I'm very glad for this change--the world needs more optimism!

Optimism is the only choice.
Though it's misguiding for the most part.

@@maoman4855 starting to? I'm fairly certain they named a playlist along the lines of "existential dead videos".
They have a couple main types of videos, biology explanations, fun thought experiments, existential dread (mainly in the form of explaining space and the many hazards we predict to fill it), and society videos (like this one).
While i personally like the existential dread videos, the world definitely needs some optimism.

Kurgestagt has realized that people who have been slain by the apathy sword are the people that wanted to help the future. The apathy sword is a term I have invented for the way you try to stop people by convincing them everything is awful and hopeless. If you cant see it, then you cant fight it. In politics its called wedging.
Theyre trying to form a shield of science and perspective. Something to fight the invisible sword. Perspective.
*Its not optimism.* Perspective is everything. Here is an example:
Life has been trapped on this sphere because of its gravity well forever. The dinosaurs had some absurd amount of time to try to evolve out of it, and no one did anything. Life was essentially doomed. Until Humans. We are lifes hope to escape this prison. We are its champions.
And under that perspective, you basically cant go wrong unless you've eliminated all life. Even destroying the earth but getting some life off it could be considered a victory of humanity.
Theyre just trying to help people see things differently, because people have been taught everythings awful, and it really can be argued against.

@@subz9192 Perspectivism is level 3 of optimism. Its significantly less misguided.
For example: Machine learning evolution reveals that most people are pretty decent, and the parasites ruin it for everyone. All the good things that exist are the result of the good you never hear about.

From worshipping the Sun powered by nuclear reactions to making nuclear weapons.

Did we though? 🤔

@@MD.orion1 idk, did u ?

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and then some guys decided said moon actually never existed, closing the loop

You missed the point of the video, it's not about death, it's about life and living and all the future generations that have yet to be born.
You're not useless, you're necessary. You're existence is required for the existence of so many of those future people. I mean would you have the millions of years of your ancestors evolution that came before you, that unbroken chain, end with you?
Live long and prosper or better yet, live well and procreate.

Which makes me a bit sad that I can't live long enough to see it, unless off course humans kill themselves, in that case I'm grateful I can't live to see that.

do you believe in afterlife?

@Cody Burns Same dude. I was also avoiding it because it sounded depressing. Turned out to be one of the team’s best videos I believe :)

Exactly the same for me, and now I am crying a couple of tears of hope

@@samuelpapp1055 do you believe in afterlife?

Try watch Koyaanisqatsi

My thoughts exactly lol

The fact that it's been more and more "hope", "don't worry", and "go back to sleep" from Kurz, I'm starting to believe that you should be concerned about the future they're uncomfortable admitting to you.

I gotta say tho, the comaprison between humans and survival rate of other mammals is an absoluteley horrible one. No other mammals has had the technology we've had or come even close to it.

@@Thesamurai1999 they explicitly say in the beginning that while our technical advancements point to this number being a lot higher, our technical advancements also bring us a lot closer to our demise. We are better at healing ourselves but we are also a hell of a lot better at destroying ourselves.
Also the rough estimate of a million is a conservative value that that could be a lot higher. The whole point of the video is just to give a sense of scale. There is a lot more to come after us, the actual number is irrelevant.

You write better English than most native speakers. Congratulations on that.

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Same here, I’m truly truly happy to share those incredible videos to my friends who don’t know English but are as curious and open minded as myself

The channel is so good that it motivates to learn English, the fact the most useful language, not to stay the same.

@@mullekad thank you Very much, i'm always a little insecure about the grammar, since I don't write in english everyday

You have just blown my mind... And also maybe the mind of some other random dude whose youtube algorithm will recommend this video in a million years and will read us...

@lifted.hippie420

woow so true damn

Edit :my bad i smoked some weed
Very true and how a bunch of random strangers comment on youtube i was looking at houseboats as an alternative to high prices on land and this was next video now im thinking about what john presland said in hundreds of years people look back at us like we look at black and white footage of titanic and think wow that was forever ago when it Only around hundred years gos fast.

Damn 😄😂😂

Exactly how I would describe it as well, Kurzgesagt rocks!

This perfectly captures my experience and feelings too. I love this video so much, and I miss the unbridled optimism I used to have about the future

I could never put into words why I loved this channel. Now I can, thank you

You can buy their merch :)

@@Cityz3nn I’ve bought the immunology book! It’s pretty darn cool. What did you get?

laughs in american with uterus

@@craggolly As a fellow American, it is scary right now, but please try to keep somewhat optimistic. Things are grim right now, but it will get better as the older generation leaves office and the new ones take their place.

Yeah that's a really powerful and beautiful line but the timing is a little unfortunate lmao

@@floppavevo5920 I'm hoping with you. But, it looks like right-wing conservative ideas are just gaining popularity, it's not just the old generation. The same thing is happening in Europe

@@bobrandom5545 wonder why that is 🤔

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Cosmic wonder is simply an optimistic outlook at the same things that cause cosmic horror: Large numbers, the vastness of space, the eventual meaninglessness of our actions. While cosmic horror shows the fear in those things, cosmic wonder shows us that these eternities are just another reason that we should do as much as possible with out little tiny crumb of endlessness. It really is all about perspective.

@@ccriztoff why are you spamming this shit tho

the worst and best part is you live forever. everyone you love will eventually die, but you will meet others, too

@@Greggorto But nothing lives forever. Not even the universe.

@@LordTalax the universe goes forever, after heat death it will collapse and another bing bang will happen,

@@charlieterz5033 It’s still a theory or a hypothesis but I do hope so that it will happen

If i think too hard about this it makes me so sad, because i won't be around to see most of anything. I believe in our species so much and i want so much to see our future

This is a anti-abortion video 😂

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@@NE0MAS While that may seem the case, the projected "number of births" don't change if they don't get born at all.

@@NE0MAS i personally think this mindset isn't incompatible with a pro-choice ideology, as abortion doesn't really decrease the overall birthrate, but instead result in more births from parents with the means to take care of their child properly, causing an increase in quality of life.

@@NE0MAS While I hope you're joking, I still want to clarify that what's expressed in this video has little to do with today's "abortion" topic.
"Abortion" as it is now means cancelling a pregnancy while it's in progress. But the "potential humans" that Kurzgesagt are referring to in this video are humans that will be born _if_ humanity doesn't doom itself.

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Hello Primer

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Ancient in the scope of humanity, compared to the age of the universe we're younger than young, infantile you could almost say, maybe even still at the embryonic stage.

Just be thankful of the timeline we’ve been born into man. Humanity is finally advancing technologically and we get to witness it. Everything we’ve ever known as far as computer tech goes has only been around a few hundred years at most. We live in a pivotal moment in our history. Bask in the infinite knowledge at your finger tips; and be excited to build a future for your future children’s children.

@@casanova1838 almost all humans to exist have lived close to our time in the modern age

ahh yes. the I'm just an insignificant blink middle age crisis

The lesson in this video...
Even if existence is minute...
What we do... As a generation... Matters.

that's sort of the message in everything everywhere all at once

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Nice

Nice👍

And they are very interesting as well I enjoy them

Most people that think this time is bad are just living in a resentful left wing bubble.

@@ulyssesvercosa6196 simply time is relative ......

- I get you...except for Jesus and Elvis, we haven't done a very good job.

@@ulyssesvercosa6196 what? The right wing people tell me all the time we are already in a dystopian 1984 like hellscape. I guess it's all perspective?

GOD strictly forbids occultism and spiritism! Read the Bible if you want to know what the future holds: Please repent because we are living in the E N D times, the 7year Tribulation with the world leader (Antichrist) is right around the corner, that's GOD'S judgement upon all unbelievers! But there is hope - get saved and be rapture ready: accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior today!!!
Please listen to real theologians like Dr. John Ankerberg.

You don't have much hope and that's perfectly fine. Look what 8 billion people are doing to this poor planet. Now imagine, what those trillions will do.
Now be a good human and uproot any tree whose shade the future idiots might sit in.

@@sohrabalimovies while i like your thinking, i say we should probably still be hopeful

you have no hope because of murricas bubbles everywhere! and you *_(finally)_* have to pay for them in a hard way
meanwhile 2/3 of the world _(which you never count)_ - pretty optimistic ;)

Kind of only gotten worse now that there's more humans than ever and they're really starting to tackle personal identity, self-esteem and self-worth, isn't it?

I'm not sure which is the original, but there's a saying in Chinese: "前人种树，后人乘凉", which translate to "people in the past plants tree, [so that] people in the future can rest in the shade".

The book they wrote is also an extremely good read

Just wanted to mention that 'in a nutshell' is a way of saying 'to put it simply', in case this wasn't known. For those with english as a second language (or possibly even some native english speakers) the name of the channel might be a bit confusing if they weren't aware of this saying.

🇪🇷🤡 Opinion rejected.

@@sandradee4331 that's literally what they said

Kurzgesagt is actually a team of a few dozen people doing the research and animation. The voice you hear is just the voice actor they hire to read the scripts.

And they have managed to captivate us with each and every video. Inspiring stuff.

Not only for humans but for other animals aswel.

And that is called sustainable development

Humans are basically self-learning programs at the fundamental level. Why not let AI and robots be the next evolutionary step of humans? They are smarter and more energy-efficient. More importantly, they don't need to steal energy from other lifeforms (such as plants and animals) to sustain themselves. They also don't need to poop.
One human will be responsible for an average of one animal death per day in their lifetime, 10 times more deaths if plant lives are accounted for.

@@azar9383 why?

Except Humanity by a nature is voracious and oblivious so we can only hope it will sustain that 1000 years more though highly likely is armed conflict about control over natural resources necessary to function.

Kurzgesagt........1 Million A.D.!!

One day these videos will be used in classrooms ( they probably already are ).

@@augmentedcamel In one of my bio classes they used this video to show a concept

I wouldn’t worry about living another day. It’s not living another day your need to worry about.

Abortion?

this is how I feel too. thanks for this comment. you wrote what I wanted to say 🤍

You put my heart in words! ❤

yea thats u but the ones that dont think like u and polute the earth ..... we will never go past 2500 and i just feel bad cuz there may never be another civilization to exist and thats why we need to conquer our solar system an then the Milky Way

Congratulations!!! That’s so exciting! Yeah it’s crazy how the internet has been an influence on careers. The building in minecraft made me want to go into engineering, and now I’m becoming one. Best of luck!

Awesome!!! I hope you have a super career in medicine.

@@KingOfTheDerp wow, that sounds awesome. It’s so great when you find a passion and can create your work and job upon it. Wish only the best for you!

@@wynfrithnichtwo8423 thank you, appreciate that! :)

@@jeremyrichter33 Same to you! Yeah, I'm excited to work in the field becomes I'm pretty passionate :D

yea a lot of people like to doom post, you just gotta know when you see one

@@dusk2308 the thing is, the doom posts could be really happening in real life in the future

@@aaaaaa-rr8xm yes and they might as well not. There is no point worrying about things that might happen in the future that you have no contol over

@@aaaaaa-rr8xm so.can thr good future there's a reason why the US started failing when the it stopped believing itself

@@MisterK9739 Eh, that depends. There are quite a few things that we have control over that could potentially wipe out the human race. As the video says, future humans depend on us. What we do now can and will affect them in the future.

Their last video came out 3 weeks ago. So...it probably took around 3 weeks.

@@BlueZirnitra Watch the video on how they produce videos. Takes a lot longer, just have a big production team to work on multiple projects at one time.

@@BlueZirnitra (Oversimplifying a bit but) if 10 people spend 3 weeks on a thing, that thing actually takes about 30 weeks of work. And there's probably more than 10 people involved in these.

Yeah I'm sure it did but we never actually walked on the moon, sorry kid.

@@Topgun5t Guys, take a look at this clown

@@Topgun5t you must be fun at parties.

@@Topgun5t bruh

@@Topgun5t ight, I know you’re trolling and I know this is gonna cost me a lot of brain cells, but you have any proof to back up your claims

If this was a marathon 26.2 miles, taking their estimate of 10 billion years, a 100 year life span would only be a little over 0.4mm

@@dotdioscorea4843 holy shit

Jokes on you I'm numb to awe inspiring and near infinitely expansive ideas in videos cause exurb1a has ruined me

One of the few

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optimistic nihilism when? I want the kurz that gives depression back

@@donottrustanyonelol oh don't worry. That's their default

This channel in general seems to pander to the wholesome crowd these days with ridiculously idealistic and fantastical optimism.
Though I get it, I wish I could still buy into it...

What countries have you taught? I'm interested in teaching in international schools overseas.

@@noahlee3925 Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. I'd recommend it, I really enjoyed my time teaching overseas. I hope you do too!

Very cool

When teens have to be warned not to eat laundry detergent, it's safe to say humanity has reached peak evolution, and each generation forthwith, is just getting stupider and degenerating into the troglodytes we once evolved from...

As you say, at that point what even is a human? What does it mean to be a human? Is it necessary to constrain ourselves entirely to the natural course of evolution? Genetic technologies allowing us to create new lifeforms that can thrive in completely different atmospheric environments is already within our grasp using CRISPR and its coming research. Leaving earth isn't even that difficult either, assuming we become serious about energy development and deployment using nuclear power. We are already positioned for starting colonies on Mars and the moon, with the right planning we can build a interplanetary communications and resource management system using specialized space stations, robotic systems, mining tools, magnetic rail slingshots on low gravity moons / worlds, development of megastructures like the stellar engine or Dyson sphere... there is so much potential for our people.

I really see a digital humanity, if we are able to uncover all the secrets of the brain eventually it might be morally accepted to "upload" yourself. It would be a huge benefit, and logically the best choice to make.

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if you think about this. Who was the last Homo erectus? last Neanderthal? how was it for them? before the homo sapiens rose into dominance. curious.

@@Boombi_ *serial experiments Lain intensifies*

there are so many great quotes from history left unspoken because nobody bothered to say them

@@wren_. Or unremembered because nobody wrote them down

I wish we could get a little less historically significant moments in our lives though.
Obviously that's not entirely accurate, seeing as modern historians are a lot less obsessed with big calamitous events and more interested in normal lives than they were in the past, but still, I'd like a decade where weeks happen, rather than a week where decades happen.

Being a historian you should realize that anywhere you may be your life will be if paramount importance for anyone who will be able to discover it in a far enough future. Researchers will recoil at no expanse to find out about the language you speak, what you eat and what you believe in if you're that one skeleton that's gonna be found in the ice or even fossilized...

@@NKWittmann They'll even get excited over the trash in your can.

now only if the people in power who have influene to do _Something_ were to see this and take it to heart...
i mean politicians , billionaires, etc. us normal folk cant do anything really. its up to world leaders when it comes to how the world will be in 10s to 100s of years from now. i can barely get my family to go to a different restaurant lol

Or, the general procreation culture becomes "one child per woman" by default (extremely plausible) and we exponentially die out within the next few hundred years. The end.

Sorry you needed to hear this kind of optimism. Maybe you ought to start listening to more forward-thinking voices.

@@bigmeatswangin5837 Or, the general procreation culture becomes "one child per woman" by default (extremely plausible) and we exponentially die out within the next few hundred years. The end.

@@valinorean4816 I doubt we'd ever go extinct like that. We are still animals, after all.
I think it'll stabilise at around two. If nothing else we'll compensate by artificial children.

Well said and dreamt about. I have the same sentiments, and lustful imagination on what we may become, and what the future looks like.
I often ask people "if u could briefly visit the future or past what would u pick? and what time period?"
Personally I choose the year 3000. This wouldn't be so unrecognizable all things considered and would give a sense of where we are headed.

My wish would be to become a omnipresente Ghost and travel in time, past and future to see everything by my own eyes

Reincarnation ? Might be a possibility... who knows?

One of the best things about the future is that we can all take our own small role in shaping it here and now.
I feel very similarly to you. It’s melancholy indeed knowing that we may never see the long term fruits of our labor. I say, that’s all the more reason to make the best of the present!
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@@luatambau yeah was gonna say “who knows, maybe you’ll see it in another life”