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World Without Us in 15,000 Years

August 22nd, 02007 by Kevin Kelly

Bridge In 300 Years

The best-selling book The World Without Us draws scenarios of what our home planet would look like if our civilization suddenly vanished. The book’s website has a small slide show with a graphic illustrations of some scenes from the future in this scenario. Click down to Visual TImeline Slideshow. It’s a coherent long view.

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Nate Ribbens

This makes me wonder more about the past than our future. Whether or not it be Atlantis, it makes me wonder if there had been a civilization in our past that rivaled our own in structural and technological impact/achievement. The historic consensus of humanity's status beyond 4000 years has never sat well with me. We assume that we must have been more primitive out of the sheer disbelief that all we have done could be washed away in such a short time.