"Is This What Humans Will Look Like In Millions..." Topic

… Of Years From Now?

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Ugly guys!… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

To be honest, Slothmen is probably what teenage kids evolve into if left in their natural state.

This guy's book a Zoology of the Future is a great speculative book as well. Neat pics by same artist.

Millions of years from now, assuming we make it, think Vorlons. If the term is unfamiliar, it's worth looking up.

Uh… I'm ALREADY Slothman!!!

Guess my progeny will be LEGION!!!

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

The upper right illustration actually appeared in OMNI Magazine, which was not in this book, and was done by an American artist whose name escapes.

This book "Man After Man", is considered very collectable as a lot of copies where destroyed when the plagiarism case came up; Pressure to produce the book allegedly pushed on artist to take some designs by Wayne Barlowe and use them for one of the future human-derived species without permission and acknowledgement, then a lot of other artists came forward with similar claims. The bad publicity hammered the author Dixon, who has had only one well-received book since "The New Dinosaurs" ( A world where the Mass Extinction did not take place, and saurischia evolved to meet the new grasslands and so on ) and a Japanese published-only series about the evolution of creatures on another world with similar biology to earth, but different paths of development.

Rhank you, Armand. The article linked to the full book online. I have been trying to find an affordable copy of it for 15 years now, and this neatly fits the bill.

I know people who look like that now…..

A votre service mon cher ami!. (smile)

Dave… dude!… (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

I think we will look like this. The alien colonists will be very confused.

Compared to me they look like Venus risen over New Jersey.

Ha!Ha!Ha!….

Amicalement
Armand

Go down to 6th Street in Austin, TX, on a Saturday night and you will see creatures even more farfetched than these.

As horrible as those creatures are, they have not considered the effect of modern technology and our own science.

Want to know what Mankind will look like in a million years?

The Kardashians.

That does actually raise a good point.

What will 'humans' look like in a million years…

… whatever they want to.

I basically see three paths:

1. Human civilization effectively collapses, and then it's questionable whether homo sapiens really survives in a post-technological world.

2. Civilization reaches an equilibrium, and we really don't move up or down the technology ladder (except for minor ups and down, probably due to economic forces of some kind)

3. We continue to advance, in which case we literally build our own successors. It may sounds like fantasy, but barring some kind of revolution in the physical sciences, it's probably the most plausible way for us to move beyond our solar system.

Of the three, I'd say #2 is least likely. Also, in a static society, it's unlikely that beneficial mutations would be recognized as such. Maybe intelligence creeps up a tiny bit. But things like fur for cold climates or a second set of lungs probably wouldn't get a foothold in the gene pool.

Choosing between #1 and #3 is probably based on your level of optimism.

The only way the Darwin really gets a vote is with #1.

With #3, at some point you could have mile long starships controlled by a singular post-human intelligence with a crew of cloned avatars for it to control when it gets bored. One day it might want to be Clint Eastwood. Another day it might want to be a 30 foot long dragon.

one on the top right is my motherinlaw…. for real :(

We won't last 500 years