[Ainan]

While most of us are occupied with thinking about how to survive the next few decades, years, months, even days, what about the real long term?

How do you think Humanity will do in the next 1000 years? How do you think your family, country, race, will be doing in 1000 years time?

[PenultimateManStanding]

Are you kidding? How the hell does anyone know what happens in a 1000 years? Probably we'll be extinct.

[jasonraymondson]

A thousand year from now after turning 1030 due an amazing life preserving invention I will create tomorrow, I am witnessing a barn raising outside of a village just east of the what is left of the ruins of a once great city. The people have taken many steps back intellectually due to the inability to coordinate a public education system and because, for the last 500 years the people have been recovering from a world wide holocaust brought on by a stupid, misguided person who assassinated the first black president.

This one simple attack lead to the race wars of the 21st century and eventually to a world war. The damages that resulted prevented people from relying on our modern technologies, and instead forced us to resort to ancient technologies in order to survive and provide food for our survival.

It always amazes me when I watch a barn raising, the men working together to help each other, the women together cooking for their hard working men. Cooperation I never noticed or saw in the first part of my life.

I had been traveling up from what use to be Atlanta Georgia; savaging and digging up wreckage to offer in trade to communities I come across. Trade is all that exists now, there are no magnificent banking systems where people can exchange pieces of cotton paper. Instead we now barter with everyone, with guns and ammo being the most sought after items.

I am going to get back to work, helping them raise the barn and maybe tomorrow I can continue writing in my journal. I believe that my greatest contribution to history will be these notebooks I have saved. Perhaps the people of the future will be ready for these notes, and maybe just maybe they will learn something about where they come from and who they are. I also hope that they learn from their mistakes, but I am not going to hold out hope, instead I will just pray for a miracle.

[Ludi]

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')How do you think Humanity will do in the next 1000 years? How do you think your family, country, race, will be doing in 1000 years time?