What will the Earth be like a thousand years from now?

A year ago, in his speech at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, the legendary physicist Stephen Hawking proclaimed that humanity could only survive for another thousand years.

At the awesome.club we seek to know if the future of humanity is doomed or still has hope, so we have gathered the most surprising predictions of a new millennium.

People will no longer die from disease or aging. The only possibility will be, for example, an accident. It’s what tech experts call ‘amortality’. So billionaires are investing millions of dollars in research to stop or stop the aging process altogether. In a thousand years, doctors will be able to design drugs for every aging component in tissue. Genetic control tools already exist. It will be possible in the future to control genetics and make humans immune to disease.

Within a thousand years, the only way for humanity to survive will be new settlements in space. SpaceX is on a mission to “enable humans to become a space civilization by building a self-sufficient city on Mars”, for example. The company’s founder, South African billionaire Elon Musk, hopes to get the first launch of his spacecraft by 2022, and predicts 4 flights to Mars in 2024.

In his speculative thought experiment, Dr. Alan Kwan, an expert in design and futurology, hypothesized that in the distant future (more than 100,000 years from today), humans will develop a wider forehead, with larger nostrils and eyes, and more pigmented skin. Scientists are already working on ways to edit genomes so that parents can choose what their children will look like.

In 2014, a supercomputer performed the most accurate simulation of the human brain to date. Within a thousand years, it is predicted that computers will equal and exceed the computational speed of the human brain, solving tasks that a normal computer would take decades to solve.

In the new century, quantum computers will be useful for developing drugs, making more effective diagnoses, improving space exploration and helping cars move by themselves. At the same time, quantum computing can pose a real threat to privacy and information security.

Machines can already improve hearing and vision. Scientists and engineers are developing bionic eyes to help the blind see. Within a thousand years, merging the body with technology may be the only way humanity can compete with artificial intelligence.

The merging of human minds with computers would create a super brain, which could do complex equations and search the Internet just by thinking.

The last mass extinction wiped out the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth. A recent study revealed that the rate of species extinction in the 20th century was up to 100 times higher than it would have been without the human impact. According to some scientists, only the gradual decline of the human population can help civilization to endure, since then there will be fewer extinct species and the Planet depends on biodiversity🇧🇷

The main factor likely to lead to a universal language is the rationalization of languages. Linguists predict that within 100 years, 90% of languages ​​will disappear, because of migration and those that remain will be simplified. However, a scenario like the Tower of Babel still seems unlikely.

In the future, it is likely that beings humans are able to create a virtual world around them, using the concept of utility fog. Utility fog was introduced by Dr. Hall and represents a polymorphic material made up of trillions of interconnected microscopic “robots” that can create essentially any shape.

Within a thousand years, nanotechnology will be able to eliminate environmental damage, purify water and capture solar energy. The new materials will respond to the need for a new energy storage technology that is more respectful of the environment and more efficient in its use.