What might humans look like in the year 3000?

While the idea of ​​humans appearing in the year 3000 may seem speculative, scientists are exploring radically different possibilities for human evolution. They believe that humanity is at a crucial turning point: either we adapt to our environment and evolve as a species, or we decline and potentially develop physical anomalies.

People’s skin tone is not examined and even if the model is not particularly dark, the future of the human body could be in more ways than one.

Mork and Mindy

From 1978 to 1982, an American situation comedy, Mork and Mindybrought a creature to Colorado that was only part human. More was played by the late, great comedian Robin Williams and Mindy was played by Pam Dawber, who was one hundred percent human.

Ironically, a 3D model of “Mindy” has been created. Mindy is the successor to Emma, ​​the sickly co-worker of the future, created in 2019 to highlight the challenge of good working conditions.

Emma was created by researchers after surveying more than three thousand employees about their health problems and anxieties.

If Emma is the product of fears about working conditions, Mindy is the product of working conditions in the post-COVID-19 era, where more and more people are working from home. The Mindy model is the product of a simulation based on thoughts about how the human body will mutate over the next eight decades.

Unlike Mork, humans are not supposed to naturally sit on their heads. Nor are they thought to have any special powers emerging from the index finger. It is debatable whether “Mindy” or future humanity is supposed to evolve or regress.

Man in the year 3000: a program for the future

Scientific research is supposed to be conducted objectively when it studies what humans will look like in the year 3000. Yet, while all research is sponsored by someone with a specific goal, in this case, the “Mindy” model is a product. It is an offshoot of those who are not only interested in future appearance. Rather, its goal is to learn how smartphone technologies impact the human body.

With computer and smartphone use being near-universal, studies on the subject can serve to anticipate the bodily changes that will result. This seems to be at least one of the motivations for these studies, which present research as the result of a dystopian destiny.

The human body generally adapts to the circumstances around it. This slow, long-term mutation occurs in response to the tasks humans perform and especially the tools they wield. If this is the case, the hands and necks of future humans will have a different shape.

Humanity could evolve to have claws instead of the shape of our current hands to hold a smartphone. Human necks could be curved to more easily look down at our personal computers. Humans could even become hunchbacks, as they sometimes were in the past. Their progression as human beings was only recorded when they learned to walk and stand.

Sitting at a desk causes your torso to extend beyond your hips. Your upper body is then not properly aligned. Your body should be straight. The human neck should not be constantly bent over your chest. This could strain the neck muscles now. However, in the future, this could be what humans will look like.

Texting can shape your arms differently, as elbow positions slowly and naturally shift. Scrolling through your smartphone or holding it to your ears can change your body.

Thicker skulls and smaller brains

The human body may be evolving a thicker skull in response to radiofrequency radiation emitted by smartphones. That’s why some scientists and researchers believe that low-level electromagnetic fields emitted by devices such as cell phones or microwaves could be potentially dangerous.

But if we continue to use computers and smartphones at the same rate for the next eighty years, we may have to make some concessions. Many people sleep with their smartphones under their pillows, for example, which could not only lead to a massive increase in new forms of cancer, but also to the development of a thicker skull or perhaps even a smaller brain.

In 2011, the World Health Organization stated that the radiation emitted by smartphones was potentially carcinogenic. This means that some people can develop cancer from this radiation. A 2018 study by the Swiss Tropical Health Institute found that using mobile phones can cause memory loss.

That same year, Dr. Jennifer Cross of Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York commented on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study that found that children who spent more than two hours in front of a screen performed worse on tests of language and thinking.

According to the study, children who used the computer for more than seven hours a day had a shrinking of the cerebral cortex. The cortex is the area linked to critical thinking and reasoning.

Mindy’s evolution, as shown in the model, could include the development of a second eyelid in humans. If research on computer screens causing headaches, eye strain and blindness is anything to go by, our bodies could evolve to limit the amount of light our eyes are exposed to.

Mindy’s sideways blink, originating from another inner eyelid that protects against excessive light exposure from technological devices, may well be the final evolutionary change in our futuristic, technology-affected human being.

A second pair of eyelids for humans in the year 3000

The Mindy model, presumably organized to think about the future of legal liability and burdens impacting the human body in relation to the use of smartphones and computers, at least as it has been popularized, seems to have overlooked an important question.

The human body does not evolve uniformly. It is possible that in the future, if the body develops a second eyelid to combat radiation and excessive light, not everyone will have this second eyelid. But with a second eyelid, another way of seeing could develop. The way we think about the human image in relation to the appearance of the body as it continues its quest for sight could also change.

In the past, projections of what humans would look like in the future suggested a darker or mixed racial uniformity, unknown to us today. Under the racial gaze, the visibly “mixed” person is often characterized as a minority.

A dystopian future

The goal here was to move beyond old assumptions about what humans would look like in the year 3000. The future of humanity is supposed to be “darker” with fewer blue eyes. It’s not that such projections are unlikely or undesirable. On the contrary, it can be exciting to see a new vision of humanity in the cards.

The “Mindy” study focuses on smartphone use and how our bodies might evolve or degrade accordingly in a dystopian future. People with second eyelids might be seen as inferior or superior. And since not everyone will likely be born with that extra pair of eyelids at the same time, the prospects for interracial marriage might be reimagined.

This is not to suggest that we live in a desirable future or that there is indeed a plurality of races in the world. In fact, we can never predict what evolution will bring. However, great suffering or injustice can occur in the name of a futuristic vision that will help people. Those who worry about the legal liabilities of smartphones or future health care costs are unlikely to worry about this.