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5396793 No.5396793 [Reply] [Original]

Where do you see humanity thousands of years from now? Millions of years from now? What will we be doing? What is the limit of our potential?

>inb4 hurrr durrr we'd kill ourselves by then

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Terran Domination of the local group. Godhood. Create new universe. Ad infinitum.

>> No.5396800

>>5396793
>What is the limit of our potential?
We don't know.

Ask someone 500 years ago what they would think the year 2000 would be like. You think they'd predict cars, refrigeration, walking on the moon, nuclear weapons, internet, etc.? I think there's a quote from the 19th century, something alone the lines of "Everything that needs to be invented has already been invented".

>> No.5396806

Very interesting question. Despite my interest in human history - if I had to chance to time-travel, I'd simply go 5,000 years into the future, because it is more fascinating to see how bad we fucked up or if and how we managed to create a better world, what role technology plays - or whether we have reverted into a hunter/gatherer species....