Do you think we will be considered stupid after 2000 years?

Won't who study exactly ? .

And please don't say the Aliens . Because that'll make your question sound stupid and dosile. Extra terrestrial is the word .

Let's face it, as many of the questions on Y!A demonstrate, the majority of the population are stupid even at today's standards

Well yeah people in the future will look back and see how stupid we were with the technology we have. We could do so many amazing things with it but we chose to do the dumbest sh@# with it. And then there are pointless wars I mean if you really think about war is just an ego boost for countries. So there is no point, you kill people and then doctors try to cure them. I mean it doesn't get stupider then this.

I would think rather primitive than being stupid. DOnt forget that whatever we do today is a foundation of what we will do tomorrow.

Yeah.
Computer modelling suggests that if we'd started around 1970-80, we could have built a sustainable, healthy and equitable technological society that could have lasted 2000 years.
Now, fat chance - global warming, resource depletion, garbage disposal problems for a growing population - something's gonna break.

stupid for what?
2000years ago there was a young human who changed the direction of humanity. Can you present someone like him today? We are all hypocrites!

Do you think we will be considered stupid after 2000 years?

We don't have to wait 2000 years, we're stupid right now. Or, put in another way, we're no more intelligent than we were, as a species, 2000 years ago.maybe stephen hawking will be the science "God"?

Nah, as far as miracles go Hawking is pretty lame. Try praying to Hawking; half of the time you get what you asked for, half of the time you don't -- just like heads-or-tails when you throw a coin.

Let's hope so...

Because that presupposes we were NOT so stupid as to render the world uninhabitable.

We are mucking around with earth's ecosystems as if it didn't matter if we cause unaway global warming. But it does. Earth's temperature may rise so high we might not be able to survive here. And we studiously ignore all the warnings from climatologists.

Now that is stupid by any definition of the word.

I'm thinking that history will judge our present political leaders very harshly. --- Big deal --- in 50 years for now all of them will be dead (and us too) of old age. The criticism will be why they did not act to mitigate global warming when all the signs were so obvious.

No.

When historians look back 2,000 years they don't regard the people they study as stupid at all.  People like Cicero, the Roman politician and lawyer, or Julius Caesar, or the Greek philosophers and playwrights (although they were rather earlier) are still regarded with very considerable respect.  Of course there were very many very stupid people around at the time, but by and large nothing they did or said has come down to today.  Looking forward 2,000 years, there may be the occasional Cicero to look back to, although I can't think who it might be.  What seems more likely, though, is that the activities of the very stupid (TV reality shows, rock concerts etc.) will be far easier to research, and that our successors will therefore have a more accurate, and lower, opinion of us as a quasi civilisation.

Stupid is a harsh word but the definition of it may be appropriate: Foolish, making poor mistakes and careless decisions, lacking reason.

Certainly we have progressed in technology over the last 2000 years and we have a better understanding of the sciences.

But along with technology comes a dependence upon it. We can heat our homes with natural gas and cool our homes with air conditioners but are helpless when the electricity power goes out. We can buy a $130,000 combine to harvest the crops but are helpless without gas and oil to run it. We can live in a luxurious apartment complex in the city and buy all of the clothing and food that we need but have no idea how to make clothing or grow crops ourselves. Progress always comes with a price.

Homo sapiens are animals. We survived and evolved into what we are by being aggressive not passive. The law of survival is eat or be eaten. Wars are an extension of that. It's built into our genetic code. There always have been wars between homo sapiens and in 2000 years there will be more wars. The planet is simply too large for one country (like the US) to dominate militarily. Empires which have tried have always failed.

The law of yin-yang always exists. You can only have one country prospering if you have another which is suffering. Humans will always fight. Land and oil and religious beliefs are just popular today.

There are no guidelines for posting anything on the internet. While a small portion of it may be useful for research, the great majority of it is worthless even to us today.

Stephen Hawking is popular today because he is a good communicator and because we have so few good scientists alive. In historical context, Hawking will never be considered one of the greats in history. Nobody will ever worship a scientist as a god anymore than we worship the likes of Aristotle.

I think the greatest weakness they will look upon 2000 years from now is our emotional need to hold onto mythology and folklore for our cultural identities. When science discovers facts which disagree with religious beliefs, we today tend to cling to the old beliefs instead of accepting new facts. The power that the Church holds over men is almost as strong today as it was 2000 years ago. We have persons who actually believe that the planet is 6000 years old and that dinosaur bones were placed in the soil by Satan.

The ramifications of this is that ideas of science knowledge are not taught or not learned by a system which has a 30% high school drop-out rate and ranks 34th behind the rest of the world in knowledge testing. Just as empires of the past, the US is a dominant global war machine crumbling from within.

We love our short-sighted distractions today and that includes the hype surrounding global warming. Temperatures were much warmer in the past geological history of our planet, even 200,000 years ago when I guess they were driving too many cars. We often fail to see the large picture and the fact that we are still coming out of the last Ice Age. Hopefully there will be no money-makers to exploit the populace 2000 years from now like Al Gore.

We have the ability to feed the starving and care for the poor and homeless. We have the ability to care for the environment. We have the ability to provide for the sick. We have the ability to protect the species of our planet which are dying off daily.

If we do not exercise these abilities which are within our power today, then we deserve to be mocked by those living 2000 years from now.

The Romans were considered smart for their times and still are considered smart considering the magnetude in which they created. 2,000 years ago we will be considered smart but our political actions would be a flaw.

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In 2000 years, historians will view our world society today as being made up of 95% sheeplets, with the remaining 5% as the ones who actually made things happen.  These are the scientists, the engineers and the educators, in my opinion.

This is the kind of thing that happens when we allow business and religion to have way too much influance on humanity, and on the direction the world's political systems take us.  Business and religion, ultimately they corrupt everything they come in contact with.

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