In this video, we delve deep into what the next billion years could potentially bring humanity and the Earth. Sponsored by Squarespace, the trusted website development platform, we explore the massive changes mankind will experience if we continue to exist for another billion years.
The history of humanity extended for roughly 200,000 years, and during that time, significant changes happened. Our journey, which started in Africa, has led us to the corners of the Earth and as far as landing on the moon.
We have become more connected, and continents once linked like Asia and North America have already been submerged by the ocean. We have gazed at the moon, but our ambition for colonisation does not stop there – our sights are set on Mars, and eventually, we want to continue expanding our reach until the entire galaxy is colonised. Once we accomplish that, we plan to keep moving until we encounter extraterrestrial life.
About 10,000 years into the future, we might encounter the Year 10,000 problem.
This arises from software encoding the year as a four-digit decimal, resulting in the inability to encode dates starting from 10,000 AD. Another significant change that can occur is the dilution of human genetic variation due to increasing mixing of populations worldwide.
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