What kind of technology will be available in a million years from now?

[BillTre]

Humans are transforming an increasingly large proportion of the earth to human use rather than being left wild.

 

[berkeman]

When he got back to earth he settled down got a less stressful job got old gracefully and even helped civilians with taxidermy now and again.

Oh noes! I never made that connection.

I guess I see an opportunity for an interesting sequel to Forbidden Planet, similar to Airplane...? @jedishrfu -- are you available?

 

[PeroK]

I guess I see an opportunity for an interesting sequel to Forbidden Planet,

There is already a sequel:

 

[BWV]

Back to the OP, we do not know the limits of science and tech, but have a much better idea than 50 or 100 years ago. Just because people 150 years ago thought they had seen the limits and were wrong, does not make it true that there great new discoveries to be made in the physical sciences that would result in technology we cannot understand today. It may be that we are well along on the flattening of the curve. Perhaps even with 1 million years of a stable human society, few fundamental discoveries remain to be made. It looks increasingly likely that human space travel within our solar system is unfeasible, let alone outside of it. ITSM that if you believe in unbounded technological growth, one also has to believe in the near absence of other technological civilizations in our galaxy, as it is old enough for some older race to have covered the Milky Way with Von Neumann probes or whatever.

 

[berkeman]

Back to the OP

Spoilsport...

It may be that we are well along on the flattening of the curve.

Almost certainly not in medical science, given the timeframe of the OP. It is quite possible that as we continue medical research that we will find cures and prophylactic measures to cure/prevent most diseases and extend human lifetimes significantly. That may open up a whole different issue with overpopulation, if lifetimes are routinely extended to, say, 500 years. Not to mention the possible mind-electronics links that are likely, which could introduce issues with "artificial intelligence" being combined with (well, you know...).

I'm going to have to slink off and give myself a "Speculation" infraction now...

 

[PeroK]

There is already a sequel:

... I saw it at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. That's the further east I've ever been - all the way to the end of the District Line!

 

[berkeman]

... I saw it at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. That's the further east I've ever been - all the way to the end of the District Line!

I hope it was better in person than in that trailer...

 

[Uri Zlatnik]

I really hope that humanity doesn't devolve into some neo-medieval rat race and that is also a possibility which is going to pretty bad very much like today's corrupt and broken world.

I really hope humans learn from their past mistakes and really make the future a better place for everyone, with better technology and more food for everyone.

In the past life was almost always hard and there were many wars and it's always been the strong imposing their will on the weak and using them and controlling them for their own benefit.

So I just hope that in the future humans learns from their past mistakes and don't repeat them.

 

[docnet]

I'd guess years from now, a larger portion of the population would probably be living in cities. I really want to see what Manhattan looks like in 500 years, probably a lot more different from now.

 

[PeroK]

I'd guess years from now, a larger portion of the population would probably be living in cities. I really want to see what Manhattan looks like in 500 years, probably a lot more different from now.

I suspect it will be under water by then.

 

[bob012345]

I suspect it will be under water by then.

Then it won’t even be worth $24.

 

[docnet]

Then it won’t even be worth $24.

If you meant $24 million and for a flat then I hope so.