Where will we be in 1,000,000 Years?

[Emperor of the Titan Squid]

so where will we be?

[Spaceception]

4 minutes ago, Emperor of the Titan Squid said:

so where will we be?

I read this as 1,000 years, so I put type 2, but I think we'll be between type 3 and 4.

[WestAir]

A million years? By then we'll have invented a Matrix of our own and everyone will be living in the perfect simulated world without all the problems of the real world. By that measure, I'll vote Type 6, despite the fact that it's all a simulation.

[insert_name]

honestly id be surprised if humanity was ever united

[Bill Phil]

Probably non existent. At least not as Homo sapiens. If FTl doesn't work out, then the cheapest option for interstellat colonization is probably seeder ships. After a million years, humans will probably evolve into different things on different planets. If FTL does work out, then that's less likely to happen, but we still have to get there.

[PB666]

Homo sapiens Gigantic cockroach colonies on the venutian poles. Oh, that was not a choice. 

We can't even agree that global warming is happening, that its anthropogenic  and that it is dangerous. 

[tater]

People can't agree on which way to hang toilet paper rolls (bizarrely, since there is clearly only one proper way), but we're the lowest type of society if we are "disunited?"

[regex]

Assuming we have the will and forethought to continue our line, whatever it may end up being, and that we continue to push the boundaries of exploration, then I believe:

Without a means of FTL we will be verging on type 2.5 or thereabouts.

With a means of FTL?  Who knows?

[daniel l.]

29 minutes ago, tater said:

People can't agree on which way to hang toilet paper rolls (bizarrely, since there is clearly only one proper way), but we're the lowest type of society if we are "disunited?"

I see what you did there, and your way of hanging them is wrong, There is only my way. The proper way.

[tater]

Under-rolling heathen! 

[Findthepin1]

Either Type 6 or extinct. 

[YNM]

Surface of the Giant Sun ?

[Scotius]

Everywhere.

[Darnok]

Kardashev scale is funny it assumes that "united planetary civilization" can be stronger and faster at progressing than divided nations making space race... how far EU or NATO went into space? Further than USA during space race?

Also united civilization means we all would have same rights... what rights would that be? USA, Russian, Chinese, European or Arabic?
United civilization is only possible if homo domesticus kills all homo sapiens, but homo domesticus is unable to invent things, so this civilization would die pretty fast.

"multiversal civilization" - we have no proof for multiverse... so no.

In 1 million years we will terraform many solar systems and many planets. Each planet will be like country today with different nation, different laws, different ways of thinking and culture. There will be many different races of our species, because each planet will affect human evolution differently. Since 200,000 years of our evolution created few so different races just because we were divided on few continents, then 1 million years of evolution on different planets will make those differences even larger.

If any one thinks we are going to be Gods like creatures after 1 million years... then maybe you should take a look at evolution of species that has 1 million years or more

[kerbiloid]

Relative to the galaxy center - in 1000 l.y. from here.

A web of several hundreds hiveminds including biological and non-biological components, placed mostly on/around the Earth and Sun. Self-sufficient, but semi-interactive.

With multimillion-years lifetime scale, which in turn means that a million years voyage across the galaxy is not a problem.

Absolutely bizarre and superior over the current human's sense.
Much more alien for the current humans than a green centipede from Barnard's Star, as with the centipede you can at least distinguish "it" and "non-it".

[Nibb31]

Homo Sapiens is only about 200000 years old, and civilization is only a few thousand years old. That's a flash in the pan at the scales that OP is talking about.

Given how fast we have transformed our own environment in such a short time, I doubt that we are much more than a biological wave that's burning through the Earth's resources. We are on the verge of being able to transform our own biology and to migrate into virtuality. I don't see us colonizing other worlds when we can create other worlds in silicon. 

I don't think Homo Sapiens will be around a few thousand years. None of our growth curves are sustainable. Either we will have gone extinct or we will have muted into some sort Homo Futuris or Homo Virtualis that our puny brains couldn't even start to comprehend, who will look back at us like we look back at Lucy.

Edited April 26, 2016 by Nibb31

[WinkAllKerb'']

as long as no one use the word selfie, i ll be "sleeping somewhere" with cesar and cleopatre ; ) prolly in a dust atomic stat sparse here and there

Edited April 26, 2016 by WinkAllKerb''

[JamesGoblin]

Let's say that the "lowest" options are, well, quite optimistic. It seems as if someone cut off the bottom half of both lists

[todofwar]

Once true matrix style vr hits things will probably stall a bit. But I still imagine we'll colonize Mars, Venus, etc. Terra forming will likely be possible, but the tech involved may happen after we already settle Venus (unless we find a way to manipulate gravity Venus is the only candidate) so what do you do about the people living there? I'm more doubtful of going to other stars unless we figure out how FTL can be possible. 

[PB666]

51 minutes ago, JamesGoblin said:

Let's say that the "lowest" options are, well, quite optimistic. It seems as if someone cut off the bottom half of both lists

The polls have not been that good lately. Most have stpped responding to them. 

[cicatrix]

In the question 'Where will we be in 1,000,000 years?' the 'we' part is the most important one. Who 'we' homo sapiens? I think not. There will be no homo sapiens in a matter of the nearest 2000 years, not to mention 1 million years. Some of our descendants maybe... or maybe not and we will extinct.

Even if we do not die out from asteroids, gamma radiation, any other global natural disasters (having the probability of their occurrence in 1 million years close to 100%) we will transform ourselves to the point that we won't be human any more. 

[Hary R]

optimistically, this:

7 minutes ago, cicatrix said:

we will transform ourselves to the point that we won't be human any more

realistically, homo sapiens will be long extinct. I don't see our species to last more than a dozen of millennia. 

[CSE]

Kardashev scale ≈ the KSP version number that the civilization is currently playing.

[Spaceception]

35 minutes ago, CSE said:

Kardashev scale ≈ the KSP version number that the civilization is currently playing.

Unless you keep exploding on the launch pad, and can't get bases on other planets, but yeah, you're right

Edited April 26, 2016 by Spaceception

[Emperor of the Titan Squid]

13 hours ago, Darnok said:

Kardashev scale is funny it assumes that "united planetary civilization" can be stronger and faster at progressing than divided nations making space race... how far EU or NATO went into space? Further than USA during space race?

Also united civilization means we all would have same rights... what rights would that be? USA, Russian, Chinese, European or Arabic?
United civilization is only possible if homo domesticus kills all homo sapiens, but homo domesticus is unable to invent things, so this civilization would die pretty fast.

"multiversal civilization" - we have no proof for multiverse... so no.

In 1 million years we will terraform many solar systems and many planets. Each planet will be like country today with different nation, different laws, different ways of thinking and culture. There will be many different races of our species, because each planet will affect human evolution differently. Since 200,000 years of our evolution created few so different races just because we were divided on few continents, then 1 million years of evolution on different planets will make those differences even larger.

If any one thinks we are going to be Gods like creatures after 1 million years... then maybe you should take a look at evolution of species that has 1 million years or more

All very good points,

 

8 hours ago, cicatrix said:

In the question 'Where will we be in 1,000,000 years?' the 'we' part is the most important one. Who 'we' homo sapiens? I think not. There will be no homo sapiens in a matter of the nearest 2000 years, not to mention 1 million years. Some of our descendants maybe... or maybe not and we will extinct.

Even if we do not die out from asteroids, gamma radiation, any other global natural disasters (having the probability of their occurrence in 1 million years close to 100%) we will transform ourselves to the point that we won't be human any more. 

Homo sapiens and the things who evolve from us

 

36 minutes ago, CSE said:

Kardashev scale ≈ the KSP version number that the civilization is currently playing.

HAHAHA!