pete9012S wrote:
How do you imagine the world a thousand years from now?
Will there still be a world?
What things will change and what things do you imagine will stay the same??
You do realise that someone could write a thesis (at the very least) on those questions?
Most civilisations have a shelf-life; ancient Mesopotamia, Classical Greece, the Roman Empire, Byzantium, the British Empire etc. It seems unlikely to me that the current geopolitical situation would be the same. Hard to envisage a USA or a Russian Federation, say, unchanged, in their present formats. That's not to say there couldn't be a “Third American Republic”, for example.
There will always be ruling elites (the cream always rises to the top; as does scum). At best it is drawn from the public schools, or the trade unions, or the chattering classes. At worst it is from the Communist Party machine, a Junta, or a 'Putinesque' oligarchy. I can't envisage any change somehow!
Moving on to literature; although there are a limited number of works available from our ancient history and the dark ages, they tend to histories, philosophical and religious texts. The Iliad and The Odyssey are however great examples of how a gripping tale can still be appreciated millennia after their creation. Re-use of characters from history and folk-lore (such as Robin Hood, King Arthur, Sinbad etc) always seems popular with each generation re-inventing the stories to fit their own circumstances. For those who enjoy history, the real detail of a period can often be found in more domestic works (everything from Pepys' diaries to Larkrise to Candleford). So, maybe there could be a place for Enid Blyton in a thousand years time. Access to her works would be easy enough with the technology available now, so, barring a breakdown in civilisation, that shouldn't be a problem. What could be a problem however is the sheer volume of literature that one would assume will be available to the future reader. Blyton could be just one amongst many thousands of other writers available.
I don't see mankind (personkind?) living 'in space' in any great numbers, not in the period of the next millenium. We would have to massively step-up the distances we can travel. Nowhere even relatively close can sustain life. There might be more advanced space-stations than there are now but, for people to want to live on one for any length of time, they would have to be pretty good. Imagine being shut up in a giant leisure centre or on an oil-rig for years on end. How incredibly dull that would be. Only life-threatening necessity would ever make such a thing popular.
