Can humanity make it to the year 3000?
Exploring our distant future
What will become of us?
Humanity. Technology. AI. Space. Nature. Civilization. In Year 3000 explores the possibilities of a future almost a thousand years away.
Why 3000?
A thousand years ago, today would have looked impossible.
What might another thousand years bring? In Year 3000 explores ideas, discoveries, challenges and possibilities that could shape humanity's distant future. We don't predict the future. We explore what it could become.
Questions worth asking
The future begins with questions.
Some questions may never have simple answers. They can still change how we think about where humanity is heading.
Will humans still be entirely biological?
Could intelligence evolve beyond everything we understand today?
Will Earth remain the center of human civilization?
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Six lenses on the distant future.
From what humanity may become to how civilization might extend beyond Earth, we explore possibilities without pretending the future is already written.
Humanity
How might humans evolve, live and understand themselves?
Artificial Intelligence
Where could intelligence go beyond today's AI?
Technology
What technologies could transform life and civilization?
Space
How far could humanity travel beyond Earth?
Nature
How might Earth and our relationship with nature change?
Civilization
How might societies, cultures and institutions evolve?
“We don't predict the future. We explore what it could become.”
In Year 3000
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This is only the beginning.
In Year 3000 is evolving into an interactive exploration of how people around the world imagine humanity's future. More coming soon.