So, there may very well be people still wandering the Earth 10,000 years from now?

Question

And they will have uncovered many historical things, such as tablet computers, HD TV's, Playstation 4's airplanes, drones, and what passed for medicine such as Prozac and Hydrocodone and they'll look back on when the only planet we lived on was Earth. And how we thought we were so technologically advanced when we sent a robot to Mars. But, what kind of technology will they have 10,000 years from now to compare to our tech that we have today?

Answer 1

No one can project ten millennia into the future. Hell, we can't even look ten decades ahead and project a realistic idea of what the world will look like in a single century.

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You seem to think that the world of today will be as mysterious to people in 12,000 CE as the world of 8,000 BCE is to us today, and that's not very likely. We have written records now, while writing didn't exist on ancient Earth. We have educational systems that at least have a decent hope of passing knowledge down to the next generation. It will be a lot more like us today understanding life of 16th century Europe than anything. Some knowledge will be lost completely, a lot more will become obscured beneath the thousands of years of accumulation that will lay atop of it by then, but the nature of our world won't be inaccessible to them.

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Trying to guess what technology, science, and human civilization will be like far into the future, though, is simply futile, assuming we still exist at all. This isn't really an Astronomy & Space question to begin with.

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Answer 2

We think we are technologically advanced because we are ... compared to yesterday.



As for technology, humans and machines will have joined ... computers will be in everything, and running most everything. We will have technology to feed the entire world and very likely, we will be producing energy using fusion (just like the sun) making energy concerns a thing of the past.



We will likely have moved humans to Mars, found life on Europa and mining asteroids.



Most diseases will be gone as we'll be able to manipulate DNA and even if disease does crop up, nano-bots will enter our blood stream and destroy just the bad stuff.



I suspect religion will have gone by the way side, and most humans will be respectful of others.

Answer 3

Much of that would not last 10,000 years. Any steel or iron would've corroded away, plastics would've rotted away. Concrete with iron re-bars would've disintegrated from the expanding corrosion.



Technology doesn't always advance, indeed in our history, civilizations don't even last a thousand years and much technologies are lost with each collapse. We lost hydraulic cement, running water, indoor toilets and many other achievements when the Roman Empire collapsed.

Answer 4

Well, one of these days, we'll discover how to prevent aging, and people will be able to live as long as they want to. That will, of course, change everything. The time before that discovery will become some ancient and totally alien world.



Assuming we don't exterminate ourselves before then, you'd never recognize things 10,000 years from now.

Answer 5

I doubt it.. we will 'evolve' (from the pollution we allow) into little blobs that will be eaten by cockroaches world wide .. even after the big one hits us.. The cockroaches will win the war on meteor strikes:-)

Answer 6

I think the things that will fascinate them the most is the occasional remains site with pieces of silicone accompanying them.

Answer 7

If they are wondering, they have lost the technology of vehicular transportation. So I wonder how much else they lost?

Answer 8

If we aren't careful, we'll be lucky to have fire.