Great, so we’ll still be getting ripped off on international shipping 250 million years from now
Humans are pretty good at withstanding high heat compared to other animals, considering we can sweat and don’t have fur. I think we’d be okay.
I’ve been in 45.5 degrees and it’s right at the edge of what I could cope without air conditioning. I definitely couldn’t farm, construct, or do any manual labour required for society to sustain itself at 60 degrees.
I imagine we’d become a fairly nocturnal society if this happened. That, or operate all the farm equipment remotely from our subterranean bunkers.
farm equipment?
Right? Star Trek promised replicators that can make anything on demand only a few hundred years in the future. I sure hope we don’t still have commercial farms in 250 million years.
Even in the star trek universe, didn’t most of humanity live planetside? We can’t all be space communists.
Yes, but they had replicators too.
The idea of communism doesn’t really mean much in a world that anything can be produced on demand. There is nothing to share out as anyone can have as much as they like. No need for money means people work because they want to, no one has to work. No way to accumulate wealth as wealth no longer means anything in a post-scarcity world.
The series The Orville (which is hard to explain other than calling it what it is: a star trek-like series made by Seth McFarlane) discusses at times that reputation is the currency of the future once money became obsolete.
I’ve often thought of the Transporter/replicator combo and what it would do to humanity if those were invented by someone.
You’d need to basically announce the technology live in front of Millions of people somehow. Otherwise, you’d seriously be at risk of assassination. So many mega wealthy people and organizations would not want this technology in the hands of the masses.
