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Announcements Mar 28, 2026 at 1:03 AM

Do you ever think about how in another couple of thousand years people will be looking at us like we look at the early humans

Posted by Slayrr_FbrC

Kids will be bored out of their mind in school, learning about absolutely insignificant details of our lives, our societies and customs. The humans that were just another generation in the giant human evolution tree, right after homo erectus and all their own evolutionary predecessors. What legacy we left, if any. Our reputation and rank within the homo genus, what will have been our most impactful inventions, contributions to science, what were our biggest failures and shortcomings?
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genericusername1904 Mar 28, 2026 +3
I like to imagine school kids of the future will be watching the news shows as a way to detect criminal-minded psychopathy in the facial expressions and errors in reasoning on the part of the anchors and guests.
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Dioxybenzone Mar 28, 2026 +2
What do you mean by “early humans”? We’re tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years away from early humans. In a couple thousand years it’ll be more similar to looking back at the Romans, or slightly further, the Egyptians
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Slayrr_FbrC Mar 28, 2026 +2
Yeah but even then, can't edit the title now lmao
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Impossible_Jury5483 Mar 28, 2026 +1
We'll proboly be wiped out by that point. Let's let another species take over.
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FlyingSteamGoat Mar 28, 2026 +2
It's hard to judge what the full impact of the technical expansion of the 20th century because we're still in it. Humans went from totally ground based to setting foot on another orbiting body in about 60 years, and documented it. There is no such increase in technical capacity anywhere near so rapid in all of history so far.
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ToastemPopUp Mar 28, 2026 +2
At the rate we're going I think it's bold to assume we'll last for another couple thousand years tbh.
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Slagathor4321 Mar 28, 2026 +2
I think of evolution; and how will humans evolve even more-physically- to better adapt to the environment? Or even animals in general? What more can evolution do to protect?
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Impossible_Jury5483 Mar 28, 2026 +1
Good point. Medicine is keeping "bad traits" around at much higher rates. "Evolution" is no longer the driving factor, money will be key.
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JackHyLy Mar 28, 2026 +1
honestly i think about this all the time! like will they look at our social media the way we look at cave paintings? or will they just think we were primitive for still having to charge our phones lol.
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Narrow_Theory85311 Mar 28, 2026 +1
“Man, I can’t imagine how these people lived their lives without device to project images in your head on to the screen! And they couldn’t even communicate telepathically! These people were like animals…”
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