In the year 2525

heavymental

As the song goes. Do you think human life will still exist?!

Shadowduck

Don't see why not. The future is generally more similar to the present than people expect it to be... It's easy to picture a disaster that would wipe out a large chunk of the human race but to wipe us out completely? I doubt it - we're very adaptable.

A lot's changed in the last 527 years, but I'd say it's mostly technology. People are still the same mix of saints and sinners they ever were!

heavymental

Do you think we'll have a little colony on Mars by then with some system for making water?

Shadowduck

Not sure why we'd want one, except maybe for mining or research.

I'd hope at least the necessary cultural and technological changes will take place to allow us to live sustainably on this planet, before we start on another!

heavymental

I wonder if oil and coal will have run out by then? We may actually be using some sensible methods of energy production. Or maybe it'll be nuclear all the way. Here's the song by the way...real classic Do you think in the year 4545 we won't need teeth any more!?

In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lies.
Everything you think, do and say, is in the pill you took today.

In the year 4545
Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes.
You won't find a thing to chew.
Nobody's gonna look at you.

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.

In the year 6565
Ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife.
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too.
From the bottom of a long glass tube. Whoa-oh

In the year 7510
If God's a-comin, he oughta make it by then.
Maybe he'll look around himself and say.

Guess it's time for the judgment day.

In the year 8510
God is gonna shake his mighty head.
He'll either say.I'm pleased where man has been.
Or tear it down and start again. Whoa-oh

In the year 9595
I'm kinda wonderin if man is gonna be alive.
He's taken everything this old Earth can give.
And he ain't put back nothing. Whoa-oh

Now it's been ten thousand years
Man has cried a billion tears.
For what he never knew,
now man's reign is through.

But through eternal night.
The twinkling of starlight.
So very far away.
Maybe it's only yesterday.

In the year 2525
If man is still alive.
If woman can survive, they may find.

In the year 3535.....

TheBoyBilly

And if humans do still exist what do you think the life expectancy will be? I remember an "expert" being asked this on the radio to which he replied that he thought that the maximum we could reasonably expect a human EVER to live would be in the region of 200-250 years (some way off mind) as life expectancy would reach a plateau of sorts and that organs, tissue etc wouldn't be able to sustain life beyond this.

Shadowduck

In the year 5555
Your arms hanging limp at your sides.
Your legs got nothing to do.
Some machine doing that for you.

So the Segway will still be around then?

heavymental

Well, maybe we'll all get frozen and can wake up in a few hundred years to find out. Do you think if any of those folk who have been frozen upon death actually are thawed out and revived that they'll be happy about it?! I'd imagine it'd be like being woken up from a very deep sleep...."eh? what you want? go away....zzzzzz"

Shadowduck

I've never understood the appeal of cryogenics. Doesn't it amount to...

"I'm terrified by the idea of dying - I'll get myself frozen and resuscitated so I get to do it twice!"

heavymental

Being frozen is supposed to be quite a nice way to go isn't it? Well, becoming hypothermic is anyway. I guess not like Han Solo getting deep chilled in Star Wars.

Shadowduck

A lot like falling asleep, I believe. There's certainly worse ways to go.

TheBoyBilly wrote:

And if humans do still exist what do you think the life expectancy will be? I remember an "expert" being asked this on the radio to which he replied that he thought that the maximum we could reasonably expect a human EVER to live would be in the region of 200-250 years (some way off mind) as life expectancy would reach a plateau of sorts and that organs, tissue etc wouldn't be able to sustain life beyond this.

250 years seems a bit unlikely... Who knows, maybe it'll be possible. Imagine what that'd do to the overpopulation problem! :shock: Maybe we'll need Heavymental's Mars base after all!

heavymental

Hey, I didn't say I was going to build one!

Given what a 100 year old looks like at the moment it seems unlikely. But then again, some jiggerypokery with things at a molecular level and we could all be wandering around at the ripe old age of 250.

meagain

If still in existence, one thing for sure, still be 5% rich and 95% poor.

geoff_ss

meagain wrote:

If still in existence, one thing for sure, still be 5% rich and 95% poor.

was that intended to be a poem? True, never the less.

2025? Not sure if I'll be all that interested. I'll be 85. If I'm still around I just hope I'm both fit and compos mentis

Geoff

meagain

Geoff_SS wrote:

meagain wrote:

If still in existence, one thing for sure, still be 5% rich and 95% poor.

was that intended to be a poem? True, never the less.

2025? Not sure if I'll be all that interested. I'll be 85. If I'm still around I just hope I'm both fit and compos mentis

Geoff

Not as I wrote it, but realised before I posted it and thought (given the context) I'd let it stand!

I'd be a mere 73 in 2025 - but I'm with the actuaries on this one - extremely unlikely that I'll be around. In fact, I shall make damn sure I'm not!