***** It often takes decades for regular medicine to pass control and be introduced to the population at large. Making deliberate changes to our DNA would first of all need to be practically possible, and then the changes need to be tested for safety, which is difficult and utterly unethical, unless we're talking about mass scale voluntary gene therapy. A fake public vaccination program would not be possible, because such secrets cannot be contained. And if exposed, would set back humanitarian efforts for ages to come.
***** Humans, having gone through a recent (in evolutionary terms) bottleneck event, are very similar across the whole species. So there isn't *that* much genetic variation to choose between. Attractiveness, youth, tallness, strength and smarts have always been boons for getting chosen as mate. These are general traits of genetic health and access to resources.
***** I was unaware that gene therapy had been done on humans. Interesting, I'll have to check up on that. Anyway, there are 7 billion people on the planet. What you're talking about is a drop in the ocean.
I actually really like this channel's community. Seems like for the most part people are actually discussing things and not trolling. Love this week's topic btw.
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wongoli wongo Europe was founded in 1848 by Walker Texas Ranger when he rode a horse across the Atlantic, he called it "Eastern USA" which was eventually abbreviated as just "EU"
tommy tran same here. wont be there, when the first city on mars gets build. makes me sad and angry to know, that people in ~200 yes might get the chance to life forever while billions had to die so they could be lucky to be born in that time
tommy tran if dont know we might be able to upgrade ourselvs not only in age also Musluse brain and prety much evry thing proboly in 30 years that will start
Dixie, you should read TIME PRESSURE. Novel written in the 80's about a woman from the future discovered by some hippy dude in the late 70's... Pretty good, especially the ending about the MINDDD
Urban Nomad How old are you bro? I'm almost 16 and born in 2000 so I'm probably still gonna be here by the time the population has gone up by 2 billion.
Eugene Khutoryansky ok. why is this important? that info fell into the trivia section for me. it makes sense yes, but why are you glad he brought it up? sounds a bit like "iam a vegetarian and this supports my lifestyle, so iam on the right side and if we reach that people threshhold, everybody needs to become like me" not that anything is bad about that lifestyle but i would push a "youre wrong!" button in the face of a vegetarian
Pseudonym Persona The American Dietetic Association's position paper on vegetarian diets states: "Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Vegetarians have been reported to have lower body mass indices than nonvegetarians, as well as lower rates of death from ischemic heart disease; vegetarians also show lower blood cholesterol levels; lower blood pressure; and lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and prostate and colon cancer."
I just don't get why do people need to do all of this. Robots are pointless, in my eyes. And they would eventually try and kill us.. GMO is also unnecessary, cuz we got deliberate selection. Just sayn.. :D Atleast we can still turn back and make the situation better.
fakeaccount8888 Agree. But if they make self-driving cars, there would be people who would hack into their networks and try and steer them off of cliffs. :D
We couldn't adapt to less oxygen. it's impossible unless we were rebuilt atom by atom to live without oxygen. We would also be darker since Mars doesn't have as strong of atmosphere to reflect uv rays . darker skin helps deflect uv rays .
***** we will adapt to less oxygen on mars because it's pretty obvious that mars has less oxygen and I think if we lower the amount of oxygen in space suits over time that we will become used to it when we are outside of the bubbles we create on mars.
My hypothesis for human evolution: - humans are becoming more handsome - humans are becoming smarter - humans will lose their animal instincts (e.g. fight/flight reaction, instinctive fear of snakes and other dangerous animals...etc.) - i also believe that males will lose their strength as it isn't necessary anymore
I honestly don't think we will evolve in a physical sense at all, but rather metaphysical. The reason for this is because we have reached a near perfect hardy- Weinberg principle in developed nations. What this means is that anyone is able to reproduce now, with more people looking less at physical features and needing to survive in nature, but rather how to survive in the economy, so how we socially interact would be the evolutionary benefit. Evolution to cause a change or speciation requires natural selection. So unless something drastically changes our way of life, we won't need to physically change
Bigger heads and eyes oh my god I have a theory aliens are actually is from the future guys we are alians and the aliens we find our us from the future and one day we will be aliens and go back in time to shape humanity
***** Yes but we are humans. Significant change can't happen for humans in 50 years, as most people live to be around 80 years old. In 50 years, we will be only 1 or 2 generations down the line. We aren't going to have humans be different enough to notice in one generation.
ML8593wy Thats what im talking about, there are going to be too many humans for us to feed, we have 4.5 billion acres in our planet, and we require 3.5 acres to feed only 1 human, even if it required 1 it wouldnt be enough since we got over the limit of population. We are still alive since the food is not distribuited that fair. Either billions of humas are going to die or we could build acres underground
Because no one can see catastrophe. Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness, and once European countries stop being able to help the third world countries, their mortality rates will skyrocket, thus the population will not keep on growing into perpetuity.
That why wars, disease are there for, who knows in the future there might be a disease that wipes out almost all humans leaving only a couple of millions left, or nuclear war
my guess for human evolution is: engineered evolution, humans who control their own dna to adapt to their needs. for example athletes will be made stronger and faster through tech. less illness, smarter, but naturally weaker because we rely on technology for everything
+Anun Kash Earth is too far away for it to be in danger from solar flares.The most that solar flares large enough to have any effect on the Earth can do, is temporarily interfere with cell-phone reception a bit. And it's pretty rare for them to reach far enough to have even THAT much effect.
Cheshire Kat i'm pretty sure its possible for the sun to do something to wipe out communication. i have no evidence to this, just pretty sure i've heard it somewhere reputable.
Kids these days and their crazy hair genes. Well back in my day we had night vision, which helped us walk to school up hill both ways in the snow at night. Those were the days.
It's too difficult to predict. There are some technologies on the horizon that will affect every single aspect of our life once they are realized. For example, if Lockheed Martin is able to create a fusion reactor, as they have stated will happen within the next few years, then energy becomes much less of a concern. If energy is no longer a concern then automation accelerates even faster and transportation, manufacturing, and many services drop to near-zero marginal cost. This is just a single company with a single technology. There are dozens of other projects being worked on this very moment that could have just as big of an impact as this one. The next 50 years is going to be very interesting because it's going to shatter entrenched ideas we have had for over a century about how society and the global community should work. In the same way the Internet changed the way we access, store, and interact with information. So will the next wave of technology change the way we think about and interact with the physical world and each other.
We might get the tale back, or we could lose the human head, and get the head of a chicken. We could go back to being bacteria in 50 years or we could just become poop, and live as poop for about a billion years... That could be the next step in human evolutionism.
Exactly... The only thing currently that makes us evolve is how many children do certain kind of people have... Sadly the more knowledgeable is someone the less children they have... Sadly, we get more and more people that are dumb year after year...
+Samsung Galaxy well, I did, but for me it was nothing new, I live in a region where it is quite visible, those who can't support even 1 kid have 3-4+ sometimes even 8, while those who could support 5-10 have 0-1 children... The first group rarely have more than 4-8 years in school while the, other has 1-2 college degree... Btw idiocracy started decent, but by the middle it became the thing it was speaking against, dumb, really dumb...
+Tennic It does. You see, if everybody has rights to, lets say, vaccines, than natural selection is destroyed. If everyone has access to water, food and shelter without having to do a damn thing to EARN it, than it KILLS natural selection. Understand ??
Love your videos on this channel or on TestTube, even DNews ( but your barley even there ;( ) But almost 7 Billion people? There around 7,300,000,000 humans alive I think.
+Sun Beam Who knows, technology will play a big role. And that didn't lift off the ground till about 100yrs ago. And didn't start really booming till the start of the new century which was only like 15yrs ago. I definitely do not agree with looking different in 50yrs. But 500 is definitely possible.
if you notice, u can see a trend, which is, human in the old ages walked alot, they did hunt run etc (exterior activities) requiring alot of energy. and humans are slowly becoming more in house. for example young people less and less hang out, they are staying at home, connected to internet, so trend is becoming more and more at home, and more and more connected. and we are starting now to see those VR glasses where u dont even have to move your body to explore other places, so i suspect the next human revolution will be completely digital, you connect to the "network" and dont get out of the machine. your job will be there, doing digital jobs etc... eventually human will evolve to connect directly to the network brain and machine into a "One entity" gathering all the brains power into a huge powerful machine able to solve huge problems. and eventually, we humans will be able to create just the thinking part of the brain without the rest of the body, which means, it will transpose human consciousness into the network itself, being just energy, a consciousnesses energy, that can jump from device to device, planet to planet, at light speed... think about this, because that is the thing...
but im not a kid, i just observe the trend, that is a fact. why do u think alien dont come here alot?, because they too discovered that experience can be better and augmented when you go virtual, so maybe they are living and comunicating in their world virtual, and really dont explore the world in flesh... it would be safer for them to create a drone and then control the drone (ufo) with their VR glasses and everyone could watch the probe exploring the deep space.... at the same time... its Faster safer, makes no sense send real living creatures into an unknown place?! that you dont know when to return. This way you dont need to think about Living conditions on the spacecraft, nor food , no danger, no radiation, no death... less space, higher speeds (which a body could not resist)... if in the end all it matters is to control the spacecraft and see what it sees through its high resolution multi spectrum camera sensors... just think about it! One can do everything remotely, we humans are very primitive because we think we need to go there. Like ocean explorer in boats, which is stupid non sense, if you have tech...But as a last resource we could anyway build a robot that could have full movement freedom and be a surrogate for the remote controller, thing is our tech is not yet there to do it... but it is possible. I believe that how a higher civilization does it... they send probes millions to every space location, and they watch it remotely, on their 3D VR System...
I think so. And today probably we are living in a computer simulation generated by our descendants. I think the aliens are our descendants. Humans after 300 or 500 or 1000 years. As we know technology evolution is exponential. You can see what is done in the last 100 years. So imagine in 300 or 500 years.
Homo Spaceian! Interesting, I forget to include popular trends and cultural fad changes in thinking about the future. Its worth noting that throughout history, the amount of time b/w paradime shift has gotten shorter and shorter. It use to be 1000s then 100s of years before humans made leaps...now its decades.
a lot of humans will die if we migrate to space.. but maybe we should for a little while, just to thin us out so we dont continue to multiply exponentially and destroy the earth
What about disease? Humanity has become quite good at developing medicaments to counter diseases that would kill you wuite early in your life. That would mean, that we pass on the "faulty" DNA, that would have sorted out itself without treatment, right?
+Schmudli We would be kind of equal with ordinary animals. Using dozens of tools is part of humanity, like human body doesn't produce vitamin C, you could have call it faulty DNA as well. Also what we percieve as "faulty" DNA can in next few generations combine to create precious DNA, you never know.
klondike444 Nobody is infallible. And I for one, think that Trace is doing great working with notes alone, as opposed to the prompter he's used to on DNews or TestTube. I'm sure he; or one of the editors, can annotate corrections.
Loving the show! Minor criticism, I'd love for you to add more interactive editing, right now, it's too plain. For example, add pictures when he talked about the artist's pictures.
I was thinking: Wouldn't human evolution stop because of our technology? Because of our technology, the human body doesn't have to adapt to new environments, but rather, our technology would have to adapt. For example, Trace said that human eyes will possibly get larger because it's going to be darker (under water), but wouldn't humans just create new technology that would create a brighter environment (a better lamp or something in that nature) And so on
Can someone explain who this is? This isn't scientific at all. It's just a guy segwaying through wikipedia pages and filling the blancs with his own imagination
Im going to disagree. Us humans havent evolved for such a long time because we dont need to any more. Because we stopped adapting to the environment, and started to make the environment adapt to us. We built houses, heating, farms, all this to fit our needs and make it as comfortable and as easy as possible. The same will happen when we decide to live under the ocean or in space. before doing that we will create artificial replacements for thing we need to survive, like gravity or a sun. Our space crafts will be suited to have us live in it comfortably. There for we wont evolve because there will be no advantage for any one who is born different, since environment we made is designed to suit the average human.
raphael normie wrong on the first point, evolution through natural selection is an on going process, it doesn't stop we have & are still evolving, genetic modification aka "designer babies" is the next big thing I think, I mean look at plastic surgery industry & the lengths people will go to just to change themselves physically now combine that with the current/future knowledge of genetics & our growing dependences on technology.
I didn't mean that mutations would stop happening. Rather that any new mutations in humans aren't going to have any mager advantage if not any over any one else because of the fact that we changed the environment to suit the average human.
Its more about common sense. Think about it. How does evolution work? It happens when there is a mutation, and that what makes it different gives it a better advantage of surviving over the others. And when it mates, its new geens will exsist in its children. And it continues on and on and on. You end up having an off spring that can survive better. Now look at humans, then look at human homes, cities, tools, ect... (and medicine and safty in our territory allows us to live longer with less danger). its all designed by humans to suit humans. So if you have a mutation of a human that could run faster, or would be stronger, or smarter. He isnt going to have a advantage of survival over every one else. Because in a human environment, every one is safe. There is no competition in survival.
what about aline they are actully humans beacuae the logic is that many year earlier maybe they also goo in space and the genetical change arises why we cannt change our DNA why not
I've just started looking into this, and my first thoughts are: Economic inequality will create genetic divergence; this is already happening and the results are appalling. Assuming we survive the next century or two, I reckon we'll be choosing health, beauty and longevity. As for population levels and space travel, I think a lot of people have yet to learn we can't survive without a diversity of other species in a natural biosphere, so we can't take up all the space on Earth. Also, the problems of physically travelling light years away are so great that I think we'll probably find that our consciousness is more likely to leave Earth, not our biological bodies.
You helped bring a realization to me: the genetic modification of humans might not just provide health benefits for all people making us more alike, it may also encourage divergence; some people may be modified for particular tasks, and other people may be modified more-so for other tasks; that idea could seem a little scary right now anyways.
you mention we currently, if evenly spread, have about 35 people per square mile. that's the equivalent of 7 households. if everyone lived like you and me (Americans) than, each set of five would be in a 3 bedroom dwelling and let's give everyone a house, then where does our food come from? more importantly, where does the biodiversity that keeps the planet in balance live? you said we had room for more humans. no we don't. how many will move into a smaller home and sacrifice comfort for these new people. I write with genuine concern and respect.
+INTJ-Skorpyo7 if you read my post; first, I state I'm American, second, I'm indicating our American lifestyle is unrealistic in the face of global population doubling at current rate. FYI, I'm all for the humbling of the Americans gluten and waist habit lifestyle (I hope this sentence makes cense and please understand I'm not trying to insult anybody). your comment seems to be misplaced. I was pointing at the fact that our spaceship earth is a "checks and balances" ecosystem function ran service were biodiversity is very important to ensuring we get to enjoy the habitat our species is accustomed to. that's all I was trying to say. thank you for your reply. I hope this helps clarify my previous comment.
+Samantha Bailey oh, I missed a piece. um, if we populate the earth in a manor that allow for a healthy human existence were we are not cramped and crammed into mega city's than I wonder where the large land mammals will live. We (Americans & other human populations) are not known for sharing space well with other species.
I thought this was about humans in 50 years but you keep on talking about humans in thousands of years? :/ Well whatever I have just one word to say for what will likely "make" humans during the next 50 years... AUGMENTATION. Thank you.
We are going to be like Avatar (James Cameron movie), Surrogate (Bruce Willis movie) and Gamer (Gerard Butler movie). We will decide one day to be male and another day to be female, and we'll be able to chose Asian this week or African the next week. We will bring MMO avatars into the real world. We will have living or artificial bodies and we will be able to download or upload into these new (cloned or bio-mech vessels) bodies or Avatars. .but then again we'll probably just end up as a geological radioactive waste layer that the future Roach Overlords will wonder about.
This guy has never heard of sun-lamps. As if we're going to survive in space or underwater without electricity. Do to the wonders of technology we can take sunlight just about anywhere. I'm using a sunlamp right now.
We already die because so many people are emotionally inept and intellectually stunted. Are we going to change? I damn well hope so! We can mentally "evolve", developing our culture and society with more carefully practiced thought processes. Meditation, critical thought, mindfulness, compassion... things that can be taught in schools. Our future is in our hands and the medical industry can only do so much, we need to all change if the world is going to be a better place.
It is hard to get a full view of the machine when you are but a cog. I am certain that evolution is now in our hands, due to population density beneficial mutations are homogenised. In other words, beneficial mutations cannot take hold.. So it is down to us to improve ourselves. I say we should start by practicing more effective thought processes.
And yet, xMyPointlessChannelx, we could actually provide for many more if we utilised known technology (such as vertical farming) and embraced change. The population density and growth is scary. All of the estimates of what the Earth can support without change that I have heard about are all 7-12 bn.
What if the idea of aliens (with small bodies, large heads and big eyes), are actually a future representation of what we are to become? Could we look so 'alien' to ourselves?
i love how long but short this video is, it would help if you could show us some pictures or visualizations of some things you mention to help my imagination :)
On Earth simple medical advances and some cool devises...but maybe in 100 years when we seriously consider space travel that would take thousands of years. It would be simply to build an ark...small The store human embryos protected behind a plasma shield and grow them once they arrive (20 years out)...then have a supply on board for diversification. But the smart play would to send PATHFINDER space craft to arrive ahead of the Ark and build orbiting space station and perhaps ground structures since its not likely will discover a close enough to Earth planet for humans to live on...but while the ark is in transit HIGHLY SPECIALIZED pathfinders could genetically modify bacteria to alter the atmosphere
Really, it will become artificial selection, though space may not be as bad and NASA is trying to study "warp drives". Sunlight, or UV rays are produced by fluorescent or dark lights. Also NASA is producing food in space though aquaponics and hydroponics. (And if you think gravity will be a problem, the international space station will have gravity in some parts of the space station in 20-50 years.
In 50 yrs from now the Human Spices will look the same as we do today in the year 2019. 50 years from now, humans will experience massive destructive events caused by humans & only humans will be the sole cause. Technology has completely desensitized us all, & made us all even more stupid than we already are. 50 years from now, humans will be @ their worse. The last drop of Fossil Fuel will be used up, & never to return, along with the detonation of a Nuclear dirty bomb somewhere on the planet. @ the rate we're going, I give humanity less that a 100 more years to exist...
The post-human world. A non organic synthetic version of ourselves / looks, sounds, feels human. But it's a lifelike robot to the point where if you put the two side by side you couldn't tell the difference > AI , Ex-Machina, When that body wears out transfer your consciousness to a new one and on.........
What will happen to humans in fifty years? (Drum roll...) There will be no change. (Sad trombone) When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's there was going to be humans living in domed cities on the moon, and space travel to and from space was going to be as common as catching the bus. Still waiting on that one. Wah, wah, wah.....
recommend: Instead of a lecture from Trace, why not insert some graphics and other visuals. oooooh! INFOGRAPHICS!!! Discovery has the funds to make Trace more appealing (IE Cover him up)
This is apply to every specie, except HUMAN, because we have science and technology; We don't need to adapt environment, because technology will does that for us. For example: Night glasses, oxygen mask and radiation protective clothing.
Great channel, but this video is too unstructured. What determines the future gene pool is whether some gene strands are getting systematically more children than others. For example we know that birth rate vary between peoples today quite a lot. That will certainly affect the future gene pool (by increasing the weight of those groups with higher birth rates today). We know that intermarriege between races (but within socioeconomic status) is commong, that will affect the gene pool (by equalizing it). But more interestingly, there are some long-term trends within societies that will affect the gene pool. Every year some 100 000 children (and increasing) are born through artificial insemination. The donors are not average joes, but systematically taller, whiter, smarter than average. Even more relevant: 1/4 of men in modern societies (Norway at least) do not have children by they are 45, up from 14 % just 30 years ago. Who are these 25 %? Most likely people with either disease or low earning potential. In other words there is a strong sexual selection still going on in the gene pool, and this selection is quite strong.
Audio youtube content this channel. But you say, without graphics, that vision might be significant? Evolutionary scientists (pet, animal farmers & scientists) noticed that new species being evolved are similar to the foetus or new - born animal, rather than the mature adult. They suggested that the next human might be more child-like; smaller, less muscular, hairless. Similar to aliens seen on some popular movies. Now we have massive in-vitro fertilization, birth processes automated; poultry; aquaculture, agriculture, etc. Humans are allowed to live, which the god(s) initially designed to die. People like myself should have died of medical injuries, but are being kept alive. Crazy genetic disorders that would normally be bred out of any population, are now okb eg sickle-cell anemia, type 1 diabetes. Creating new plant & animal species is a political answer. In numbers,without quality control, the irrational religious idiots will confine women to being silly breeding machines, each producing lots of low quality babies. Look at the patterns of international migration: from the religious fundamentalist crazies, to the brainy nations. I am in the hospice stage of my life now. Good luck to you survivors who are being swamped with irrational religious crazies.
This guy has some serious flaws in logic. I unsubscribed and his shit still pops up. A couple seconds in and he can't understand difference in time. He compares 20k to 50 years and thinks we will all be living in space in 50 years. Look up the unfunded NASA SMH.
