The Year is 2800

Such optimism, James...

Dean wrote: I'll bet we still won't have hover boots.

Or robot butlers

Mind you, you can guarantee the Rolling Stones will still be touring

Humans are an extraordinarily resourceful species. It may not resemble society as we know it today, but I would be very surprised if we're not still here and doing just fine.

Very funny, I think we are toast already (in a certain way) but 790 years from now, I do believe we will be gone....period

Yes, we'll be here, but I cant imagine tis will be a great place to be. If global warming predictions are true - and yes, that's a big IF - then half of the UK will have been under water long before 2800. I imagine there will have been some big regional wars, in which nuclear weapons will have been used, rendering large parts of the world uninhabitable. The ever increasing population of the world may have been curtailed by some of these conflicts, indeed that may have been the subtext behind some of them. There will have been a bid to establish a one world government and currency, which may or may not have been a success. Religion will have been consigned to the history books..

On the other hand, things may be absoluetly fantastic. Science may have moved on to such a point, that diseases such as cancer and AID's are history. We may have colonies on the moon, maybe Mars. We may have established contact with other beings in the universe....

That said, my money is still on us basically being f***ed!

(playing "Iconoclast" in my mind) So yeah have a bitchen day, brothers and sisters...

after thinking about this for awhile, I've decided that the human race should be around for another 2300 years. Why I come up with this number, I have no idea. The year 2800 or 790 years from now is so completely do-able, espescially since human beings all over the world have this in common: We all want to Live.

RoyFairbank wrote: Yes, we'll survive, but the capitalists won't

I knew it!  Thanks for being honest about the game plan

but...

after you kill the last evil productive capitalists, do you really think the rest of the surviving mobs are going to be peaceful and just play nice with each other?

After they kill those who keep the order in this society, I'd rather be dead than live with what that aftermath looks like. 

Yes, we'll survive, but the capitalists won't 

A lot of you don't have much optimism and dare I say foresight. Have humans not shown themselves to be pretty resourceful? We're not talking 50 years in the future, here, but 790 years.

What catastrophic event can we think of that might kills us off:

1. Nuclear holocaust/winter

Even in the 70s and 80s, I doubt we actually would have killed ourselves off, at the height of all the brinksmanship. Even if the superpowers died off, there's no way all people would die off, unless somehow the earth could not recover from the nuclear holocaust, which I find even sillier--the earth is more resilient, though it might have taken more than 790 years to recover. I don't know. The real issue would be that loss of information if most people died. Could the less cultured people that might survive (because 3rd world countries are less likely to be the targets of nuclear war) be able to rebuild society as it was? How much of a setback would we suffer, and would our reconstructed world be the same? Those are the real questions.

2. Genetic supervirus

I know this is an issue, but I'm not to qualified to explain it well. But it seems to me that this would leave the least non-human damage in these scenarios, so the surviving humans would be able to pick up after the dead are gone with some ease. I think this is more targeted toward races and nationalities than the human race as a whole. I'm not sure if it would kill us all.

3. Asteroid collision

This is interesting. It's very unlikely we'd even be on a course to be hit by an asteroid in 790 years, let alone one that could wipe out all life on the earth. Let's understand that humans, even if they are not resourceful enough to stop the asteroid collision, then they sure are resourceful enough to have a few of them survive one. That is, unless, it's massive enough to knock the earth out of orbit, send it spinning to fast, break off a large enough chunk of it, or to crack it into halves. Then we'd have to alter its course, and I think we'd be given a heads up of hundreds or at least tens of years on the trajectory of an asteroid to be able to rally resources to at least give it a shot.

4. Climate change

There's no way we are doing enough damage to the earth whereby all humanity could not survive the consequences. Simple as that. If 99% of us die out in all of these scenarios, the rest of that 1% will make it work. Maybe we'll be a different species in millions of years after the fact in these scenarios, but we'll have survived. Never underestimate us.

And it's practically impossible to thing on a small scale what we would have done to ourselves. I imagine in less than 50 years many people in wealthy countries will have some sort of artificial chip/augmentation implanted in them. In a few hundred years why wouldn't we have at least been to Mars? And in 500 years how can we think of not being practically half-computer after birth? Think of the rate of technological advance. Suppose there's a backlash against integrating people and implants, etc in 200 years. Don't you think that the backlash would have been overcome in 300 years? No? Think about 400, 500, 600? It seems silly to me to think this wouldn't happen. Where were we 500 years ago? We can all imagine. Now think of 500 years from now at the rate of technological advance. We will be on the moon and Mars, and will have at least tried to terraform Mars (maybe it hasn't worked for some reason) but there's no reason to suppose we could try to do it in 500 years.

790 years, people.