What will the world look like a million years from now?

We will all look like Weebles
a million years from now.

A million years from now, if we don't blow ourselves up, get blasted into atoms by an asteroid, or die off from plague…

• Only the elite and educated will be able to read. This skill will be limited to those who practice law and science.

• There will be three classes: The elite, the non-elite, and those who find ways to exploit both.

• Oral communication will continue, but non-aural communication will be entirely pictographic.

• We'll be so good at anticipating each others responses, an entire conversation will take place instantly once the context is understood, including social faux pas and conflict resolution.

• We will be avatars to everyone but those who live with us.

• The only taboo will be observing taboos.

• 99% of us will occupy 1% of the planet's surface. The rest of the planet will either be polluted or devoted to industrial farming and fishing.

• Only the very wealthy will eat meat. Synthetic meat will be available but expensive.

• Everything we need to live will be delivered to our homes. Food and air will become a utility, like electricity and gas, which can be turned off.

• Most of us will have small but efficient hydroponic garden that utilizes recycled waste.

• Everything will be wireless, from information to energy to transportation of inorganic material; machines will fabricate 99% of our tools and environment, including companionship.

• Travel will be the privilege of a few. Everyone else will work from home and experience everything outside their home through virtual reality; this is because there will be no room and no "outside" to go to.

• "Home" will be a windowless solid cube; the walls will provide light and scenery to suit individual taste.

• There will be no physical currency.

• There will be no armed citizenry.

• The government will be totalitarian and world-wide.

• All religions will serve the needs of the world government.

• Euthanasia, abortion, sterilization, and capital punishment for misdemeanors will be universal and compulsory.

• Our eyes will evolve to twice their size to utilize lower light in the wake of strict energy conservation.

• Our legs will atrophy and become like our appendix.

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