Predicting future is always a tricky thing. Mostly we get it wrong and we either sound foolish or pompous in the process, yet it’s intriguing and never ceases to draw our imagination.
Human beings have evolved and developed into what we are today over only a mere 500,000years (if we were to start with early Homo sapiens) .While 500,000years may seem a lot it’s only a speck in the context of overall age of planet earth (around 400,000,0000years)and even smaller compared to the age of the universe(1400,000,0000years). Yet if we were to meet an early Homo sapien today on the streets of a cosmopolitan city like, let’s say New York, most people would think that it’s some chimpanzee that has escaped from the zoo. No one will believe that it’s actually the same us about 500,000years ago. The point being that evolution while being a slow process, changes everything and slowly the original form become unrecognisable and distinct.
So undeniable is the fact that human beings will continue to evolve anatomically and perhaps in other ways too. It’s only anybody’s guess how we will be in the future. With this as the context I am adding my bit to the world of predictions. These predictions are about how human beings will evolve as a species, largely in terms of biological factors. I can’t fix a time frame on when these changes will happen because I am guessing that these changes will occur through natural evolutionary processes of mutation and subsequent anatomical changes.
So here it goes the grand future of Homo sapiens. In the future,
• Human beings will develop the ability to communicate clearly across any distances just through thought (no devices, no embedded microchips, and no electronics...just thoughts)
• Sleep will be an active process, in the sense that we will be very aware/conscious of the entire sleeping duration but this form of sleep will be much more rejuvenating for the body and mind
• We will lose our ability to identify or distinguish colour but our monochromic vision will become much sharper
• Human beings will stop consuming food and we will survive only on air/breath
• The normal human life span will reduce to 25years. Around 21 years will what will be considered as the start of old age
What is your prediction of our future?
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- They'll probably shrink further in size, considering how present humans are smaller than apes.
ReplyDelete- There might be a decrease in the average brain power :-) due to lack of sufficient usage(probably Lamarck's theory), since right now humans rely on machines to perform all sorts of calculations, memorization etc.