Question: Where do you see humans in 100 years?

Amelia Markey answered on 15 Jun 2011:

Love Richard’s idea that by that time we will leave Earth. If you look at the things that have been achieved in the last 100 years the sky is the limit for the human race providing we look after our planet.

I can’t begin to imagine some of the cool technology we will have by then, if I could imagine it I’m sure I would be very famous and make a fortune for inventing 100 years worth of tech! 😉

I really hope that in 100 years we will have dramatically reduced if not solved world famine by making better crops with the help of some clever research. I also hope that we will have found the cure for a lot of diseases and found some healthier ways of living. At the moment the drugs’ companies are having a bit of a trouble making some big drugs that will treat important illnesses so hopefully they are due some big breakthroughs!

Although it’s a bit of a tangent from your question it really reminded me of a bit from Richard Dawkin’s book “The Ancestor’s Tale” where he describes a world after humans that is ruled by rats…enjoy!

“A world without rodents would be a very different world. It is less likely to come to pass than a world dominated by rodents and free of people. If nuclear war destroys humanity and most of the rest of life, a good bet for survival in the short term, and for evolutionary ancestry in the long term, is rats. I have a post-Armageddon vision. We and all other large animals are gone. Rodents emerge as the ultimate post-human scavengers. They gnaw their way through New York, London and Tokyo, digesting spilled larders, ghost supermarkets and human corpses and turning them into new generations of rats and mice, whose racing populations explode out of the cities and into the countryside. When all the relics of human profligacy are eaten, populations crash again, and the rodents turn on each other, and on the cockroaches scavenging with them. In a period of intense competition, short generations perhaps with radioactivity enhanced mutation-rates boost rapid evolution. With human ships and planes gone, islands become islands again, with local populations isolated save for occasional lucky raftings: ideal conditions for evolutionary divergence. Within 5 million years, a whole range of new species replace the ones we know. Herds of giant grazing rats are stalked by sabre-toothed predatory rats.* Given enough time, will a species of intelligent, cultivated rats emerge? Will rodent historians and scientists eventually organise careful archaeological digs (gnaws?) through the strata of our long-compacted cities, and reconstruct the peculiar and temporarily tragic circumstances that gave ratkind its big break?”