What Humans Will Look Like In 1,000 Years

what humans will look like in a thousand years humans are still evolving so where will evolution take us in a thousand years chances are we'll be taller humans have already seen a boom in height over the last 130 years in 1880 the average American male was five foot seven today he's five foot ten we may also merge with machines that can enhance our hearing eyesight health and much more right now there are hearing aids that let you record sounds generate white noise and even come with a built-in phone another example is a team out of the University of Oregon which is developing Bionic eyes that help the blind to see but it's not impossible to imagine that this technology could become a tool for seeing what we currently consider invisible like different energies of light such as infrared and x-rays there will eventually be a day where prosthetics are no longer just for the disabled however it's not just our outside appearance that will change our genes will also evolve on microscopic levels to aid our survival for example an Oxford led study discovered a group of HIV infected children in South Africa living healthy lives it turns out they have a built-in defense against HIV that prevents the virus from advancing to AIDS and with gene editing tools like CRISPR we may eventually control our genes and DNA to the point where we make ourselves immune to disease and even reverse the effects of aging another way to jumpstart the human evolution on a different path is to move some of us to Mars Mars receives 66% less sunlight than Earth which can mean humans on Mars will evolve larger pupils that can absorb more light in order to see and since Mars is gravitational pull is only 38% of Earth's people born on Mars might actually be taller than anyone on earth in space the fluid that separates our vertebrae expands which led American aerospace engineer Robert Zubrin to suggest that Mars is low gravity could allow the human spine to elongate enough to add a few extra inches to our height however not even a move to Mars could spark the biggest change in human evolution that we may have coming to the next thousand years immortality the path to immortality will likely require humans to download their consciousness into a machine right now scientists in Italy and China are performing head transplants on animals to determine if you can transfer consciousness from one body to another they claimed their next big step is to transplant human heads whatever happens in the next thousand years whether we merge with machines or become them one thing is certain the human race is always changing and the faster we change and branch off from earth the better chance we have of outrunning extinction [Music]

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Length: 2min 52sec (172 seconds)

Published: Sat May 06 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Swapping bodies would be super interesting to social cultures. Actually being able to experience living as a male/female or different race.

[u/gabriel1983]

Lol. In 1000 years, if there are still going to be humans, it's going to be some sort of weird religious sect that is against technology, like the Amish. Other than that, no humans at all, but some sort of post-humans, cyborgs that would certainly not be recognisable as humans for us today.