The Future of Human Civilization (2022 — 3355 AD)

In this video, we’ll sit down in our time machine and go forward a few millenniums into the future, to see where we would be progressing as a civilization.

Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:51 The levels of civilization
2:13 Timelapse of the future
5:25 Year 2141
6:34 Year 2768
8:43 Conclusion

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Music tracks in this video:
Addicted – VYEN
Gathering Darkness – Kevin MacLeod
Heaven and Hell – Jeremy Blake
Landing On a Dark Planet – Doug Maxwell
Moorland – Underbelly & Ty Mayer
Space Hunter – Quincas Moreira
The Awakening – Patrick Patrikios
The Battle of 1066 – Patrick Patrikios

Gathering Darkness by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Script

As a civilization grows larger and becomes more advanced, its energy demands will increase rapidly. Mainly due to its population growth and the energy requirements of its various machines. With this in mind, the Kardashev scale was developed as a way of measuring the technological advancement of one civilization. The scale is based on how much usable energy it has at its disposal.

It was originally designed in 1964 by a Russian astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev. At the time, it was used to look for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals. Then, Carl Sagan divided this classification even further, each with an energy disposal level. Along the same line, he also formulated an equation to compute at what year the civilization on Earth would accomplish a specific class.

In this video, we’ll sit in our hypothetical time machine and go forward a few centuries into the future.

2040 – Mapping the entire brain
About two decades from now, scientists at The Human Brain Project will have successfully mapped the entire human brain. It is to the very synapses and axonal connections.

This feat will have huge implications. Specifically, by unlocking the mysteries of the most complex and elusive object in the human body. Entirely new branches of medicine and technology open up.

2080 – A hybrid intelligence
Four decades after that, people can now attach an Exocortex, a technology where the human brain can connect to a brain implant. A merger of biological intelligence and machine intelligence. A human with cognitive skills and neural processing powers, far exceeding that of a normal human. 

People can now easily connect with the Internet inside their brains, accessing all the accumulated knowledge of the Web. The true altruistic and benevolent race of humans now inherit the world. 

But just when you think that it sounds too much like Sci-Fi, well, Elon Musk even said that humans must become cyborgs if they are to stay relevant in the future. Especially, a future that is dominated by AI. 

2095 – Extending the human lifespan
In just about one and a half decades after that, cyborg brain technology has magnified research by massive amounts. Specifically in the nanotech area.

Nanites, or nanorobots, will be invented. They can be injected into the bloodstream, and can give out real-time readings of the human body. Also, they can increase telomere lengths and prevent free radical damage, to the point that we almost reverse age. Humans could routinely live up to 200 years or more.

2141 – Reaching type I civilization
By this time, according to the previously shown equation, humankind will reach the level of Type I civilization. In simple terms, we would be able to harness all the Earth’s energy and have control over all-natural forces. We would be able to control volcanoes, the weather, or even earthquakes. 

Some of you may even hear the news recently about using machine learning to detect earthquakes. From detection to controlling. That might be a long-winded process, but at least humankind has one and a half centuries to do so.

2200 – Physical bodies are obsolete
Around this time, Nanites are used to effectively upload the human consciousness into computers. This would essentially mean that now humans could live on in computers. Physical bodies are now obsolete. Humankind would live on as electromagnetic vibrations of consciousness, in quantum processors. The entire consciousness is now encoded into the Quantum machines.

Perhaps this is our way to reached technological singularity. Our physical bodies will not be limited to the ultimate fate of the universe. Maybe, this is a way to make our human timescales comparable to the ginormous universe timescales.

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