What Will Humans Look Like In 10

What did humans look like 10,000 years ago?

Genetically, almost exactly like we do now, except with fewer tattoos. There were more homogeneous societies because the major ethnic races hadn’t mixed up very much like today, but worldwide travel did occur. They looked older for a given age than we do now, living more out in the elements and their skin showed it.Their clothes were more practical and lasted longer and there weren’t any mass-produced clothes or other stuff so each person looked a bit more unique. Everyone was very hands-on crafty, like basket making and even making your own shoes out of grass. Manual skills were very advanced, with people spending their whole lives honing the skills on which their lives depended. There were no machines to do their work for them.You could tell a lot more about a person by how they looked than you can now. People wore lots of jewelry and decorated themselves with body paint for special events, especially women. Lots of men shaved their heads and faces for hygiene and to avoid fleas and lice and to look good, but many had short beards and hair because it was easier to cut hair short or shave every once in a while than to shave every day. Body odor was very pronounced, but everyone was used to it. Washing with soap was something most did. It felt good and made you more appealing.People talked more, sang more, and sat around socializing more than they do today. In many ways, they were better at communicating with each other than we are today. Everyone depended on everyone else in the community so much more than they do today. Most people had sharper wits and were more clever, wise to the ways of nature, and less naive than people are today. You needed to be just to eat and survive.They strived to show higher status, just like today, but usually more with character than simple material objects. That is because people lived in very small communities where everyone knew each other VERY well. There was more accountability for your actions then, because you had to live with the fallout of your actions in the community.Leaders had a lot more power over the rest of the people because that was the primary way to organize groups to ensure everyone was protected and fed. There weren’t a lot of laws and rules everyone could simply follow; it was more about adherence to authority. Bad leaders had to watch their backs because violence was the only real recourse to changing leadership in that situation.

In the evolution process, what will humans look like in 1 billion years from now?

We will either be extinct, or we will be software. Extinction is unfortunately the vastly more likely outcome. Either by war (least likely to completely kill us off, but you never know), or some Comet Shoemaker-Levy look-alike disaster, or some catastrophic mutation, the road to extinction is, if not the assured outcome, certainly the way to bet. Of course it may take ten million years or so with luck, but you *did* say a billion.But if we survive, I am *certain* we will be software. Unimaginable software to our present abilities, for sure. But I believe strongly that whatever makes for consciousness and whatever is 'human' in us, is a physical process, and as such it can eventually be modeled and replicated. Software has huge advantages over physical existence. You can make copies of yourself (or whatever 'yourself' evolves to). You can experiment, fix, tweak, try again without waiting for slow evolution. You can guarantee survival of the race by sending spaceships everywhere--only the eventual heat death of the Universe will be a threat, trillions of years away (the software equivalent of you will probably ask 'what will we like a trillion years from now?).And there are no disadvantages. We will miss nothing. What 'sensations' we now enjoy, will be duplicated in software, so we will experience whatever delights (and terrors) we can think of, and many more that today we *can't* think of. We can persuade ourselves that we live an a physical world and forget (a-la-Matrix) the reality of our existence. The Luddites among us can even experience the material world, secure in the knowledge that if physical existence proves too challenging, there's always a fallback option.The transition to a software existence won't be easy, and many will fight it tooth and claw. But once the ability to replicate consciousness in code is achieved, it will only be a matter of time. It's hard to say when this might happen. If everything continues as now, I give it 100 years maximum, probably less. But I do worry that civilization may take a step back. War, overpopulation, climate changes, mutated viruses, even inimical machines developed on the path to software consciousness will likely intervene. But I can dream.

What will memes look like in 10 years?

Either like cave drawings, or like holograms, you touch a dot and you see a 3D or 4D image.

What will humanity look like from evolution in 10 million years?

While humans are still under the rule of evolutionary pressures, it is also true that intelligence tends to preclude evolutionary pressures, and should be taken into account.  It is why we have diabetes and hemophilia in our population.  If we were not intelligent (and compassionate), then those with diabetes genes or hemophilia genes would quickly be selected by a heartless evolutionary pressure to be removed from the population, no more hemophilia.  Instead, we intelligent, compassionate humans take care of those with genetic diseases, and disorders that would have not lasted long in the population otherwise.  So I just think this should be taken into account when thinking of the evolutionary future of humans.10 Million years is a long time, so we had better have humans off of Earth by then, as it is most probable that a very disastrous event will happen on Earth within 10 million years.  Caldera Volcano, asteroid hit, runaway global warming, we should be off this planet.  If that is true, then where some go (Mars station or exoplanet around Proxima Centauri) will certainly affect the evolution of the resulting populations.  Martians will have to adjust to a lower gravity, maybe Centaurians it is the opposite, or they have to adjust to decreased oxygen levels. They could look very different, or only slightly different by one specific characteristic.  We look so much like Cro-Magnon man (the modern version of Homo Sapiens) that if we were able to time transport one to out own time, and put him on a bus, you would not be able to pick him out of the crowd.  The main evolutionary changes in humans since Cro-Magnon man have to do with size, we seem to be getting gradually taller over time, especially males, but other than that we have not really had a noticeable major changes in ourselves due to evolutionary pressures (minor things like Tibetans being more adjusted to low O2 levels, things like that).  If Earth does manage to survive 10 million years, I wonder how much different we would look.

How might humans look if we grew up on a planet with ten times the gravity of earth?

Reading through other answers, I disagree.  In the words of Jeff Goldblum: Life will find a way.  Here is my vision for normal life on a 10g planet.Life finds a Way - Jeff Goldblum - Jurassic Park (1993) movie scene We tend to visualize walking apes when talking about life on other planets because we are one such animal ourselves.  This thinking may work at g levels near 1 (0.8 to 1.5).  For extreme levels like a 10g planet, life needs to find a way so the creatures are not flat centipedes crawling around spending tons of energy to fight gravity.  Just look around you. We are bound on this Earth and look with envy at birds flying around not hindered by the g force and fish floating in the water not worried about sinking.  That is my vision of life on a massive planet.  The life will develop in a fluid filled ecosystem.  The fluid has the capability to counteract gravity through buoyancy.  So imagine creatures that live in the dense water on a high-gravity planet.  They probably will have specially adapted organs that are hollow and they can blow them to increase their buoyancy and float up or collapse them to dive.  Pretty much like a submarine.  Same thing with birds.  On a high-g planet, the atmosphere will be very dense.  It is very easy to generate lift.  So you will see eagle like creatures that convert latteral motion to lift capability counteracting the gravity.  I leave the rest to your imagination.