Rathark wrote:Where do you think we'll be in:
10 years
100 years
1000 years
10,000 years
1 million years
1 billion years
1 trillion years
10 years: Pretty much the same, with denser hard drives, more techno-toys, and genetically engineered food.
100 years: Renewable energy will be cheap, there will probably be colonies in space, and manned missions to the moons of Jupiter. Hopefully, the population will have stabilized, and there will be enough food to grow, and the polar icecaps haaven't melted. Some countries have united or fallen.
1000 years: Ships have left for other systems, and either most of the Earth's population has died off, or there's hundreds of billions of people on Earth. Spaceships are very inexpensive, and are like cars nowadays. The polar icecap has been sent to terraform Mars.
10,000 years: The population has probably stabilized, either because of low birthrates, or starvation is people off. Mars has been renamed "Earth II", and there are many man-made colonies throughout space.
1 million years: By now, humans have colonized thousands of planets throughout the Milky Way, with little contact with each other. Some disaster has struck Earth, and only a few million are alive, as the asteroid belt has been completely mined out.
1 billion years: The Earth is back to normal, as man has terrafromed and colonized thousands of planets and moons. Jerry Fawlell MMMCCI, the last Fundamentalist, says that God will punsih man. He is mysteriousl lifed up and hurled into a black hole.
1 trillon years: The sun has long since exploded, and Earth is saved by some device which accelerates the formation of a star.
I'm not big on prediction the far future, just the next 500 years.