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by arithma 2218 days ago
Are there similar predictions but on a short time scale. Like from now until 10,000 AD?

Culture, technology, and geology (and hey, everything else, biology, astronomy..)

I find it hard to try and see what the future may hold, and it seems that is the case since we're at an event horizon of human culture change. Talks of singularity already having come upon us is relevant in terms of predictability to a certain extent, but I kind of feel comfortable to say that humanity will indeed stabilize in at most 5k years, since we're already hitting marginal returns in technology investments. There might be two more singularities that can unlock more unpredictability: AI and biology.

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I was always looking for some “realistic” SciFi for the next let’s say 500-1000 yrs. I couldn’t find anything that didn’t include some stuff that was clearly coming out of the Fantasy domain
Well, 120 years ago moon landing was from fantasy domain too :)
Fair enough :)
AI overtaking humans and maybe some kind of merging with that is bound to be a big change. Bit hard to see beyond that.
There's this, but it only goes to 2280: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_near_future