Mailund suggests we may evolve in ways that help us to deal with this. We might just change that. It sounds more like science fiction. But we can do that right now. Perhaps in the future, implants will be used simply to improve a person. As well as brain implants, we might have more visible parts of technology as an element of our appearance, such an artificial eye with a camera that can read different frequencies of colour and visuals. But in the future, Mailund suggests, it may be seen as unethical not to change certain genes.
This is all rather hypothetical, but can demographic trends give us any sense of what we may look like in the future? Predicting out a million years is pure speculation, but predicting into the more immediate future is certainly possible using bioinformatics Jason A. Hodgson predicts urban and rural area will become increasingly differentiated within people.
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Science Contributors. Kelly Dickerson , Tech Insider. We'll be part human, part machine. We'll have superhuman genes. We'll all look the same. We'll have super-fast computers. We'll have buildings that can assemble and disassemble on command.
We'll live somewhere beyond Earth. We may defeat death. You can watch the whole video below, and the trailer for National Geographic's Breakthrough:. Premiering today May 15 , the new National Geographic Channel series "Year Million" investigates what humans might look like far into the future. In six episodes, the show explores the possibility of merging technology with the human body , the potential to drastically extend lifespans, the effects of virtual reality, the use of computers to merge human minds, the availability of new sources of energy and the possibilities of spreading humanity into outer space.
Brian Greene, a professor of theoretical physics at Columbia University in New York City, is one of the famed scientists featured in the series. Greene has written several books on string theory, a theoretical physics model that suggests the universe is made up of miniscule, one-dimensional strings.
He has also explored the mathematics that could help explain how the universe has more than three dimensions. Greene said he doesn't think humans 1 million years from now will look much like people do now, and he said their lives will be so different that humans today wouldn't recognize them. A look at what life was like 1 million years in the past provides an idea: At that time, modern humans didn't exist yet, and the most technologically advanced things on the planet were fire and the hand axe.
Picture trying to explain an office job to Homo Erectus , whose day was spent hunting and gathering wild foods. In the future, Greene said, there's a good possibility that humans will find a way to merge with their machines. In physics, humans may solve certain big problems, but that will likely only lead to new questions, he said.
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