What do you think will happen to mankind 10,000 years from now?

Dear Mythion As human beings we have been endowed with the gift of foresight and to ignore that gift is much more inhuman then looking for sustainable system. Starvation is suffering beyond any solutions to our greed beyond believe. It matters not the system be it Capitalism, Communism or Anarchy they are all based on infinite growth. It would be much less painful for us to develop sustainable system then the alternative which is letting mother nature do it for us. All who ignore the reality of our world and do nothing (which is what you suggest as the lessor of two evils)do not understand the reality of our world. Furthermore, your blatant disregard for future generations who will suffer the consequences of our actions indicates a lack of maturity and demonstrates selfishness, greed, and a leap in logic. We do not own our planet we are only borrowing it from future generations. I suggest your attitude is a big part of the problem with our current voter apathy and lack of effort to understand our world and how it works. Your trying to taking the easy way out by suggesting we will get what we deserve, when in fact the unborn do not deserve the fate you have condemned them to. Your response to my post is a cop outs so you can go back to your life without inconvenience or taking action of any kind. Sorry but the truth hurts sometimes and sometimes it takes the truth to wake people up to the reality they have created for themselves. Does anybody have a grip on reality?

I agree with you, but I am afraid some solutions to those problems may be found inhumane by some people... I think one of the causes to those problems is capitalism and the industrial revulotion. I pesonally think humans deserve to what they bring upon themselves, when there will be no food - we deserve it, when people will die because of air pollution in the millions - we deserve it. I agree that those problems need to be solved first but finding a new planet to inhabit can be a very good solution... but how long will it take us to get there and will it be to late(probably will).

I said humans desevree what they've done - They have to fix the problem, I didn't say I have no concern, if i had no concern would've I start this topic? I wanted to hear what other people think about the future of mankind and one other thing, as I grow up I want to dedicate my life to finding some of those solutions in science.

All the possibilities you mentioned I already said, but I was asking what do you think will happen in 10,000 years, not the possibilities... and I don't think a more intellegent race will rise, 10,000 years is not enough for that kind of evolution - try 8-6 million years...

500 years ago, everything was so different. Now, we can even talk to others without being near them, through cell phones. And now we have a specially human world, the Internet. Why do you think that in 10.000 a new specie would not be able to be more intelligent?

A new species is not us, if they'll evolve to intellegence it will be at the same rate we did, 10,000 years is enough only to make a one new hair on our hair - in evolutionary terms - tiny fraction of time. Plus currently there is no need for any species to evolve like we did, most likely in the next 10,000 - no new intellegent species.

I agree it's about bending space but I think were far from it and were even far from reaching a speed that'll allow us to find an inhabitable new planet, some planets that were found to MAYBE be inhabitable are 40 LIGHT years away... we are far from but I think 10,000 is enough to reach a reasonable speed or even a slight chance of "bending some space", this will all be great if we could go another 10,000 years without destroying ourselves.