This is how people will look in 1000 years
About 10,000 years ago, humans started to be able to drink cow’s milk. In the last 150 years, we’ve grown 10 centimeters taller on average, and in the last 65 years, science has helped us live 20 years longer on average.
We’ve come so far in such a short amount of time. What will we be like in another thousand years?
In this episode of AsapSCIENCE, the boys talk about some of the most exciting scientific discoveries being made right now to help our species move forward.
First of all, we humans have a right to be proud of ourselves. Our brains are so good that even the most advanced computer system can’t compare.
In fact, in 2014, researchers used the K computer in Japan, which is one of the most powerful computers in the world, to simulate human brain activity. It took 705,024 processor cores, 1.4 million GB of RAM, and 40 minutes to process the same amount of data that the brain does in one second.
But the machines we make might not always be better than us.
Scientists say that in the future, computers will not only be able to do calculations as fast as the human brain, but we’ll also have artificial intelligence that can talk, interact, listen, and remember. Let’s just hope they don’t use all that information against us.
And as computers get more and more like people, so will people become more like robots.
Scientists think that in the future, tiny robots called “nanobots” will swim around our bodies and improve our natural abilities. This is called “transhumanism,” and it could mean that we no longer have to be limited by what biology can do. When you think about what that could mean, it’s pretty amazing.
Technology has the power to change a lot of things, not just our own bodies.
The video shows that “utility clouds” of tiny robots could easily build whole buildings and then take them apart just as easily.
AsapSCIENCE says, “Picture your house falling apart when you leave in the morning so that the space can be used for something else.”
In the next 1,000 years, there will be a big drop in the number of languages spoken on Earth, and darker skin could become an evolutionary advantage because of all the extra heat and UV light.
And if we want to stay alive, we’re all set to get a lot taller and thinner.
Why? AsapSCIENCE explains this in the video above, but let’s just say that global warming will have a much bigger effect on how we look than you might think.
