I wonder how our culture and people will be seen a thousand years from now. Seen by a people far changed from how we live today. Will our laws and way of life be seen as oppressive or liberal? Will they judge us as compassionate, or power hungry monsters? Will we be seen as a simple people, or a people that lived their lives in an unneeded complex nature? Our religions seen as hoaxy and controlling (the way we view the old religions of Greece and Egypt)? Will they even have religion in the future, or will society finally move past the need for an invisible parent figure head?
I assume they'll look at us the way we see people from year 1,000, we look at them as a backwards people who lived their punitive lives with very little useful knowledge. They are ancient, almost forgotten. And that's what we'll be, our entire culture will be ancient and almost gone from memory; just relics.
So it's naive to think that we're at the top, riding a wave of understanding that will live on forever. There will be new understandings. New, improved, ways of life. New countries and territories and types of government. I'll bet America isn't even a country a thousand years from now (bring it NSA). I'm curious to know what will be written in history books. Keep in mind that America is the new Roman Empire, and we certainly don't paint them in a very good light in our books.
This is all in assumption that human beings allow the Earth to survive that long.
Weight in, what do you think?
I assume they'll look at us the way we see people from year 1,000, we look at them as a backwards people who lived their punitive lives with very little useful knowledge. They are ancient, almost forgotten. And that's what we'll be, our entire culture will be ancient and almost gone from memory; just relics.
So it's naive to think that we're at the top, riding a wave of understanding that will live on forever. There will be new understandings. New, improved, ways of life. New countries and territories and types of government. I'll bet America isn't even a country a thousand years from now (bring it NSA). I'm curious to know what will be written in history books. Keep in mind that America is the new Roman Empire, and we certainly don't paint them in a very good light in our books.
This is all in assumption that human beings allow the Earth to survive that long.
Weight in, what do you think?
And hell yeah, I managed to finish it tonight after all! I have my BA in English Lit, going for my masters in the same, and if all goes well I'll attempt the PhD in the same.
I do that too, but from more of a paranoid "everything you depend on will one day fail you" point of view. I encourage people to learn and maintain at least some of the skills that technology promises to take care of for us. Note I said, "everyTHING" you depend on and not "everyONE," So I think that saves me from being a cynic. I believe in people. If I ever stop, please come to Chicago, punch me in the balls and tell me that life is still beautiful. Take care!
I think a thousand years from now all human beings will be telepathic sex wizards.