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[Ziltoidia 9]

"Half-life 3 announced!"

 

[Subpar Spatula]

lol. you are underestimating religion. They have been around as long as humans have been around. Education does not have any relation to this.

Increased education has shown to reduce religion in areas.

There are other factors currently at play which are helping to erode religion's control: secular laws, quality of life, education, more and more information being available, etc..

We are already seeing a trend in religious attendance going down. It's slow but it is happening. It's not a stretch to say that if in 1,000 years (if we keep this course) religion will probably not exist. A big part in religions still being around in western countries is tax exemption. That won't exist for another 100 years.

 

[Easy_D]

Tipping. Can't live in the free world if you ain't tipping.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

The wedding ceremony will still be basically the same, even down to a lot of the details. There'll be cake, a special dress only worn by the bride once, rice being thrown at the couple as well as groomsmen and bridesmaids.

Christmas will still be around, same as New Year's. Single people will still get bummed out every 14th of February.

Major religions will keep on trucking, as will the successor forms of many national governments. The law courts will also maintain continuity of a type.

Some of the companies that are around today may even still be going, albeit in a highly modified form.

 

[terrisus]

That's not the point. We're all so interconnected now.

Lets take the stock market for example, where's that going? I can't imagine how it could just end someday

You can't imagine the stock market ending?
Why?

I mean, unless you're using "stock market" to broadly mean "investment in production," which has been around for millennia.

 

[Team Alucard]

Americans will still clap after finishing a meal

 

[blame space]

i think pooping is going to stay popular

 

[WillyFive]

The word cheese in English will still sound the same way.

 

[shadyspace]

i think pooping is going to stay popular

You don't think pooping will be solved within a 1000 years?

 

[RowdyReverb]

The Gregorian calendar, because why change it and the resistance to changing it would be enormous.
Also, hopefully weekends as holidays will still be a thing.

 

[Ace Harding]

That's not the point. We're all so interconnected now.

Lets take the stock market for example, where's that going? I can't imagine how it could just end someday

I think you are underestimating how much change can occur in a thousand years in human civilization.

An equity market could still be around in some form, sure. But which stock market are you referring to? Business and finance will have changed so much by then that we probably wouldn't recognize much of what was happening. It is very hard for us to imagine the kinds of drastic change that will occur over the next thousand years.

 

[CreepingFear]

Prostitution, religion, and taxes.

 

[Opto]

Fart jokes. Assuming we haven't been uploaded to robot bodies.

 

[terrisus]

i think pooping is going to stay popular

Pooping is popular?

In my opinion, it's kind of shitty.

 

[HUELEN10]

1. Except for death and paying taxes, everything in life will still be only for now.
2. The USA's succesor's successor will be in control of 1/4 of the world.
3. Coal will be the most valuable common substance, and diamonds will be retro morphed into them.
4. Scientists will have figured out a way to become completely gender and genital free.
5. The Jewish people will still be around.
6. The cow will be extinct.
7. Racism, unfortunately will not be extinct.

I think this is a good collection of possible traditions/happenings.