What will humans look like a million years from now?

[Twilight Hue]

It seem we as a species will become unrecognizable.

In Year 1 Million, What Will Humanity Look Like?

The new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like in the year 1 million.

www.livescience.com

What to you think?

Bigger heads, bigger eyes?

Cyborgs?

Brains integration with machinations?

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Augustus]

I predict they will look like:

 

[We Never Know]

It seem we as a species will become unrecognizable.

In Year 1 Million, What Will Humanity Look Like?

The new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like in the year 1 million.

www.livescience.com

What to you think?

Bigger heads, bigger eyes?

Cyborgs?

Brains integration with machinations?

With all the chemicals we consume and the way we alter the earth(climate, habitat, etc), I don't think they can accurately predict what humans might look like.

 

[Heyo]

It seem we as a species will become unrecognizable.

In Year 1 Million, What Will Humanity Look Like?

The new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like in the year 1 million.

www.livescience.com

What to you think?

Bigger heads, bigger eyes?

Cyborgs?

Brains integration with machinations?

One million years - pretty unpredictable.
One hundred thousand years - pretty unpredictable.
Ten thousand years - pretty unpredictable.
One thousand years - pretty unpredictable.
One hundred years - space migration, cyborgs, artificial super intelligence, brain-machine interfaces, DNA modification including vastly extended life spans, post scarcity economy, interstellar travel/colonization, reaching Kardachev 1.0.

Technology doesn't advance linearly, it advances exponential, a fact often overlooked.

 

[ChristineM]

It seem we as a species will become unrecognizable.

In Year 1 Million, What Will Humanity Look Like?

The new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like in the year 1 million.

www.livescience.com

What to you think?

Bigger heads, bigger eyes?

Cyborgs?

Brains integration with machinations?

My avatar is a human skull 22000(ish) years old. It's 13% bigger than the skulls of humans today.

If this trend continues, i think in a few hundred thousand years our skulls will be just a pimple on our shoulders.

Assuming humanity survives that long

 

[Valjean]

My avatar is a humsn skull 22000(ish) years old. It's 13% bigger than the skulls of humans today.

If this trend continues, i think in a few hundred thousand years our skulls will be just a pimple on our shoulders.

Assuming humanity survives that long

Inasmuch as technology and ideas spread quickly and are almost immediately adopted world-wide, there is no longer much selective (reproductive) advantage to intelligence.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I predict they will look like:

Oh. That would definitely support the Fermi Paradox.

 

[Heyo]

Oh. That would definitely support the Fermi Paradox.

It supports the idea of "late filters":

 

[Stevicus]

It supports the idea of "late filters":

Interesting video. Looks like there's no United Federation of Planets in our future.

 

[Heyo]

Interesting video. Looks like there's no United Federation of Planets in our future.

I think there is. But it will be inhabited with humans and descendants of humans. Unless we manage to commit collective suicide, that is.
I think the great filter is rare intelligence, or, more precisely, rare technology. We've only had detectable technology for a hundred years out of over 3 billion years of life. And we don't know how long that will last.
Taking the time as a probability (best guess we have so far) we get a value for fc of 0.0000000003 and 100 for L in the Drake equation. That explains why we are alone in our local bubble - and leaves the option open of planets with life - just not technological life.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I doubt we homo sapiens will exist that far into the future, and assuming the homo line still exists by then I think we'll probably follow the trend of looking more or less alike yet destinctly different from each other.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I doubt we homo sapiens will exist that far into the future, and assuming the homo line still exists by then I think we'll probably follow the trend of looking more or less alike yet destinctly different from each other.

Well, no, that time frame it be something more like going from homo habillis to us.

 

[Yerda]

At best as mumified relics in a museum. Most likely radioactive ash.