without referencing any works of fiction, what do you think the world will be like in 25,000 years? interpret the words "the world" and "be like" how you see fit.
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the space around Sol becomes an ecosystem to various machinic and hybrid lifeforms and experiences a cambrian explosion, posthumans specifically become an entire clade in this ecosystem, not all of them necessarily sapient
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It doesn't pay to be smart in interstellar space - once out of the gravity well, most races lose their sentience in favor of longevity, radiation tolerance and stealth
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the singularity does not happen - a few specialized intelligences can be kept alive with careful treatment, but anything a couple times smarter than humans ends up killing or otherwise neutralizing itself before it can chew up the world
orthohumans themselves are hopelessly outmatched in space and never make it past venus/earth/mars, where they do speciate but stay recognizably human
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at 25k, the first terraforming projects on nearby stars begin to bear fruit, but the settlers are not recognizably human anymore - but the biospheres they spawn do resemble gaia
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