The Last Human - A Glimpse Into The Far Future
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
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The future of humanity seems insecure. Rapid climate change, political division, our greed and failings make it hard to look at our species with a lot of optimism and so many people think our end is in sight. But humans always thought they lived in the end times. Every generation assumes they’re important enough to witness the apocalypse and then life just goes on.
This is a problem because it leads to short term thinking and prevents us from creating the best world for ourselves and our descendants. What makes this worse is that we actually may live at an extremely critical moment in human history. To understand why, let us look at the temporal window of humanity and ask:
When will the last human be born and how many people will there ever be?
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Many of us have been conditioned to think that more humans = more problems. I appreciate the optimistic perspective presented in this video. More humans also means more progress. The first step to a brighter future is envisioning it.
More people also might mean more problem solvers
if we don't focus on the quality of those humans, more humans=more problems because we already see our societies collapsing because it cannot drag all those sick-minded, corrupt, and inhuman people.
Technically that's true but equally more problems mean more solutions.
The interesting bit is to get the solutions across. A whale has many many more cells than a human, yet a human has a very different experience because of the way the cells are communicating with each other. Existence exists because it can and it will create everything that is possible. And everything is possible infinity.
What's relevant to us right now is how we communicate with each other because that is what shapes our experience and makes the difference between a shitty and a great experience. It is all about how we connect. With ourselves, our humanity, with earth, with the universe, with everything. Limits are finite and therefore inherently temporary. So that what truly is is unlimited and never ending. And if we recognise ourselves in that, we are too =)
Since we currently inhabit just one planet, we confuse overpopulation with having more humans.
Really there is only one problem: entropy.
One day it’ll be appreciated how many scientists were inspired by Kurzgesagt. I honestly believe it will make a material difference on space exploration and medical innovation over the next 50 years. I know this b/c I consider myself one of those motivated. Creating quality education on RUclips is a powerful way to have a positive impact.
agreed
@Rohit E
One of the main reasons I was inspired to start learning science
yea, I wish I was younger when this channel started!
I used to.
“Every generation assumes they are important enough to witness the apocalypse.”
Always keeping me humble, Kurzgesagt.
lol
My mom said this her entire life
Cue the extreme evangelicals trying to decide for all of us, accelerating human suffering so they can be vaccumed into heaven. Religion is perfectly fine, but forcing beliefs on all of society not so much. Hope common sense and progress prevail!
@@brotherbluto4524 You know I heard they literally are trying to end the world
@@turbochips6148 Yeah, I wish it was just fan fiction but I’ve heard it suggested they don’t care about climate change for this reason and the only reason they support Israel is to make this happen as well. They don’t believe the Jews are going to the same place they are however lol
One year later and this is still easily one of my favourite videos on the internet.
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Imagining being at the beginning of human history rather than the end.. It's funny how that one perspective seems to foreign to me and probably many other people. But I like it.
Must have been fun having an entire species of people similar to humans (Homo erectus) to unite all Homo sapiens against. The racism must have been GLORIOUS. We need another sub-human species to fuck over for the benefit of all society!
Yeah, also I wonder why they would put a nuclear tower instead of a coal tower as one of the only "death" routes at 3:45 when we know coal is a lot more damaging to us and the environment?
As an educational channel they should be more responsible.
@@Boa796 Because one of the easiest ways we imagine us all being dead is throwing thousands of nukes on each other because someone stopped thinking and started a nuclear war, it's not there to symbolize an accident in a nuclear facility and considering that yes a full detonation of all the nuclear warheads on the planet may actually cause us to go extinct - it's at least worth a reminder.
Something I always found very interesting about this is the fact that with quadrillions of people there are probably hundreds who will be studying you. Everything you post online, every picture you have ever taken, they probably will know everything about you and how you lived just because we are some of the first humans who can document our way of living.
*There is an AGENDA using all this enviromental blah blah blah to achieve their their self interests, they give a SHIT to environment or to human rights or to animal rights or black people rights etc, all these blah blah blah is a tool.*
*THEY GIVE A SHIT to you, they are bilionares who wants to be more biliorare.*
They pay the media, they pay the press and they pay fake scientific researchs, they pay artists, they pay everything to keep the lies and the Agenda.
Look Greta Turberg, she is supported by George Soros.
I don't believe the Kurzgesagt team really understand how much their fantastic creations can fuel in us the optimism and show a silver lining we so desperately need. Thank you a thousand times for your dedication and hard work. I feel nothing but humility when watching their content, and love for this channel.
Okay
I really needed the fuel boost, if you catch my meaning.
Cute animations don't really represent the reality of the human condition very well. We are primitive apes and even the smartest and most capable of us make egregious errors in calculation/projection all the time. Just look at how poorly Europe handled their transition to "renewable" energy.. They are going back to coal fired power plants at a furious rate because solar and wind totally can't meet capacity.
Sure but whats the point of it all? Why would we care about that future if we wont even be here. Whats the end goal?
@@Subs1338 think of your childeren that you might have or nieces and nephews, they will grow up in a world we set up for them. and so will our grandchildren and so on. the point is that we want to give the people we love and the best possible world to grow up in, because we love them. this goes for strangers too, I personally feel responsible for my family but also for other people my actions effect.
Honestly, I was expecting this video to be one of the most existential crisis inducing on the channel, but it turned out to be one of the most hopeful
They really should have chosen a more optimistic title!
Yeah but at last ...the factual bitter existential crisis truth...."someday later or sooner ,the last human will be born"
@@AlokKumar-tk1ty but on what is that assumption being based on? I don't see that piece of information.
I feel as if many people need this because the potential of the human species in itself is astronomical and I found this video very motivating
Same, Im going to come back to rewatch this video whenever I feel guilty about wanting kids.
@@Did.a_flip kids are the only thing that you can really leave in this world after death so I dont care if im selfish but I will have kids
@@elkku2934 you are wrong
@@HerdeniaShirish how?
And the video might be underestimating it by a lot, too. With advanced enough computers, simulated minds would take far less energy per person, and simulated people could outnumber even the video's highest estimate by orders of magnitude. And these simulated people could also subjectively experience time much faster than us, being able to live entire lives in what we perceive as just a few hours.
0:16 "Every generation assumes they are important enough to witness the apocalypse" this sentence alone completely changed my prospective on this subject. Such a beautiful quote.
EDIT: Over 1k likes?! Thanks guys!
EDIT²: I must say that another thought crossed my mind while seeing the replies of this comment: we're possibly the only civilization that has solid proof of the apocalypse.
Considering how many doomsday & rapture cults there have been it really makes for depressing realization how prevalent Narcissism is.
@@Kuolonen I don't think that it is in any sense a problem of narcissism from the cult members, what does not include the cult head who is most probably totally egotistical and narcissistic. The average person end up in a cult because we all have an inner need for religion ( definition being: a system of BELEIEVES ) in our lives.
@@Kuolonen Narcissism sugar coated as religion
Positive nihilism is great but it's frustrating how prevalent narcissistic nihilism has become recently.
Or I just need to stay away from Reddit for a while.
I mean, most of the others didn't have nuclear weapons. This isn't really a good application of 'past performance indicates future returns'.
I feel like kurzgesagt is making an conscious effort to be optimistic, because it feels like that's exactly what their audience needs, to be more optimistic about the future and guide it's actions based on that. I agreed with the effort.
They were starting to gain a reputation for constantly inducing existential crises in people, and I'm sure they noticed. I'm very glad for this change--the world needs more optimism!
Optimism is the only choice.
Though it's misguiding for the most part.
@@maoman4855 starting to? I'm fairly certain they named a playlist along the lines of "existential dead videos".
They have a couple main types of videos, biology explanations, fun thought experiments, existential dread (mainly in the form of explaining space and the many hazards we predict to fill it), and society videos (like this one).
While i personally like the existential dread videos, the world definitely needs some optimism.
Kurgestagt has realized that people who have been slain by the apathy sword are the people that wanted to help the future. The apathy sword is a term I have invented for the way you try to stop people by convincing them everything is awful and hopeless. If you cant see it, then you cant fight it. In politics its called wedging.
Theyre trying to form a shield of science and perspective. Something to fight the invisible sword. Perspective.
*Its not optimism.* Perspective is everything. Here is an example:
Life has been trapped on this sphere because of its gravity well forever. The dinosaurs had some absurd amount of time to try to evolve out of it, and no one did anything. Life was essentially doomed. Until Humans. We are lifes hope to escape this prison. We are its champions.
And under that perspective, you basically cant go wrong unless you've eliminated all life. Even destroying the earth but getting some life off it could be considered a victory of humanity.
Theyre just trying to help people see things differently, because people have been taught everythings awful, and it really can be argued against.
@@subz9192 Perspectivism is level 3 of optimism. Its significantly less misguided.
For example: Machine learning evolution reveals that most people are pretty decent, and the parasites ruin it for everyone. All the good things that exist are the result of the good you never hear about.
As someone who grew up being taught -- literally every single day, no exaggeration -- that I was living in the "last days", I can't tell you how much I needed to hear this. To not be at the end, but the beginning... that is such an incredible feeling.
Wow. If you don’t mind me asking, what was your religious/ideological upbringing like?
You're smack dab in the middle of an absolute terror (evolution of sentient beings capable of suffering, with absolutely every single one of them having a life that ends in catastrophe) that won't be mercifully snuffed out until about 4 billion years from now when the sun becomes a red giant. And by the way, it's all literally for nothing.
Found the JW. 😂
@@fictionisfake4280 idk about you man, imma keep going and eating velvet cake until the day I die, hopefully buy a few countries by then
Ah yes, Jehovah's Witness? Haha
It makes the saying "he who saved a person is like saving the whole humanity" makes so much sense! A person holds the potential to further save other people and have descendants.
Yes it does😊
The British soldier who spared Hitler's life during WWI:
@@MewPurPurof course.
This really changed my perspective because I just realized that I am me, in my own generation and in a blink ill be gone, "people" will advance to unimaginable levels without me. It is mind-blowing to know that we are in a generation, a point, that we can change absolutely anything for our future for the better or for the worst and this helped me understand that our real goal all along was to work together so that out future is the best it can ever be.
Just be thankful of the timeline we’ve been born into man. Humanity is finally advancing technologically and we get to witness it. Everything we’ve ever known as far as computer tech goes has only been around a few hundred years at most. We live in a pivotal moment in our history. Bask in the infinite knowledge at your finger tips; and be excited to build a future for your future children’s children.
@@casanova1838 almost all humans to exist have lived close to our time in the modern age
ahh yes. the I'm just an insignificant blink middle age crisis
The lesson in this video...
Even if existence is minute...
What we do... As a generation... Matters.
that's sort of the message in everything everywhere all at once
These videos are so incredibly humbling
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And they are very interesting as well I enjoy them
Yes indeed😊
“We went from humans worshipping the moon, to humans walking on it”. This is such a beautiful phrase.
Ye
in the far future, we’ll go from ideas about mars to terraforming it.
More like the things we once worshipped are now trampled by us under our feet. It depends on the perspective in wich you are thinking. You can take it as a positive or a negative thing.
I will always remember that phrase. I really love it.
@@The.Doctor2 It's positive. "Trampling" is a bit exaggerated, and I also think it's not a good thing if objects get worshipped for no logical or scientific reason.
This is genuinely my favourite video on the platform.
Awe inspiring, heartwarming, terrifying and beautiful.
Yes, very good😊
"We went from humans worshipping the moon to humans walking on it." This deserves an ovation! The video illumines a shift of perspective, although the underlying idea of energy output as a measure of growth has been explored earlier. The key takeaway is once again, the Kardashev scale.
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Lets spam Bengali replies to confuse our Western friends
And then we spent 50 years doing nothing in terms of further exploration because the was no weapons race impetus. Which Also sais something sad about humans
but still didn't realize that they can't choose whether to exist or not in this world,.. ask your parent or your grandparents if they can do that, ...until you realize not even the big bang can happen by itself
Going on nearly 10 years and Kurzgesagt is still, hands down, producing the best content on RUclips.
Damn, they're 10 years old??
Subjective
@@MrLeroyFox Damn, you didn't watch the video, did you? The message is obviously "please, for the love of everyone who might life, change your behavior". But ofcourse, having a pessimistic perspective and refusing that there might be a chance that we survive, and therefore our own decisions don't matter is easier.
(Also, I am not sure how this video is propaganda? Propaganda means state (or at the very least, multi natioal comporetion) sponsered (mis-)information campaign.)
They actually started in 2014. Hopefully they will do a retrospective on all of the good things that happened in the last decade for the tenth anniversary.
And yet, we might be only at the beginning of the Kurzgesagt saga 😄
I was avoiding this video because it sounded depressing and I wasn’t in the mood, but it’s so wonderfully optimistic! I love it! Considering that our actions not only affect people alive today, but potentially a number of people impossible to truly comprehend, really puts things in perspective.
Which makes me a bit sad that I can't live long enough to see it, unless off course humans kill themselves, in that case I'm grateful I can't live to see that.
do you believe in afterlife?
@Cody Burns Same dude. I was also avoiding it because it sounded depressing. Turned out to be one of the team’s best videos I believe :)
Exactly the same for me, and now I am crying a couple of tears of hope
@@samuelpapp1055 do you believe in afterlife?
This was one of the best videos I’ve watched. Expected an existential crisis but got the complete opposite. The only thing that upsets me is that we may be at the beginning and not see our full potential.
Seeing a positive outcome to today's social problems is so refreshing! People love to complain and to predict a scary future for us all, but they don't understand that our future is what we make today.
Thank you Kurzgesagt for showing us a positive prospective!
yea a lot of people like to doom post, you just gotta know when you see one
@@dusk2308 the thing is, the doom posts could be really happening in real life in the future
@@aaaaaa-rr8xm yes and they might as well not. There is no point worrying about things that might happen in the future that you have no contol over
@@aaaaaa-rr8xm so.can thr good future there's a reason why the US started failing when the it stopped believing itself
@@MisterK9739 Eh, that depends. There are quite a few things that we have control over that could potentially wipe out the human race. As the video says, future humans depend on us. What we do now can and will affect them in the future.
We are an ancient civilization. Great video!
hey primer!
Hello Primer
hi primer!
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Ancient in the scope of humanity, compared to the age of the universe we're younger than young, infantile you could almost say, maybe even still at the embryonic stage.
Craziest part for me is that we are at the very beginning of technologically recorded history - we are the very first generations for whom all humans forever will be to see us and hear our voices. That blows my mind.
You have just blown my mind... And also maybe the mind of some other random dude whose youtube algorithm will recommend this video in a million years and will read us...
@lifted.hippie420
woow so true damn
Edit :my bad i smoked some weed
Very true and how a bunch of random strangers comment on youtube i was looking at houseboats as an alternative to high prices on land and this was next video now im thinking about what john presland said in hundreds of years people look back at us like we look at black and white footage of titanic and think wow that was forever ago when it Only around hundred years gos fast.
Damn 😄😂😂
“We went from worshipping the moon to walking on it”
This is the most inspiring thing I’ve ever heard ever. It shows how much humans have conquered. God bless you, guys.
A dethrone is in order.
@@riveratrackrunner I mean, You made me canckle.
Well most of us are still stupid
And now we are in the process of conquering our imaginary gods entirely and permanently!
As a former religious person, I find it oh so ironically hilarious that we humans today like to laugh at the moon and sun worshippers of ancient times to then go and worship our own silly made-up gods! 🤣
and we are also going from worshipping god to understanding that it's a lie
i genuinely cant find a way to thank Kurzgesagt for rekindling this childlike, unbelievable fascination and wonder i have for humans, existence and everything in between. for the past decade ive only felt neutral and indifferent to new things; more of a "huh. cool." than a starry-eyed "WOOOAAH". This youtube channel managed to make me see our universe the same way a 9 year old sees the world around them... with indescribably fuzzy curiosity. I cant thank you enough.
Exactly how I would describe it as well, Kurzgesagt rocks!
This perfectly captures my experience and feelings too. I love this video so much, and I miss the unbridled optimism I used to have about the future
I could never put into words why I loved this channel. Now I can, thank you
You can buy their merch :)
@@Cityz3nn I’ve bought the immunology book! It’s pretty darn cool. What did you get?
This video made me feel existential dread in a way that the others normally don’t. Some of the videos can be downright depressing, but this one was optimistic. However, that optimism made me feel sort of sad that I’ll never get to experience the leaps we may make into the future. I’ll never truly know what we were able to get done thousands of years from now.
But maybe you will. Totally understand the dread but none of us know what happens after we die. You could be born again in a new body with your same mind. You could start over. You could observe all of time and space the second you die and become God. We just don't know. So be excited for the future no matter if you are "alive" for it in your current form.
Facts I really wanna know how it plays out lol
@@angbald very interesting thought
Think of how we were thousands of years ago, though we can’t be sure we’ll see the next thousands of years, at least we were able to experience things like electricity, Internet, BLUETOOTH! Man I don’t haven understand how that works. We’re sending robots millions of miles away in space and have telescopes that can see so many light years away. Astronauts are real, not a fantasy anymore, people have gone into space that’s incredible! I’m sure future accomplishments were unfathomable to our distant ancestors, but also for future descendants of humanity. No matter where we are in our evolutionary story, there will always be something greater. Let’s consider beautiful and momentous things that we have accomplished, and keep in mind that in addition to greater future technological and societal advancements, there will be an equal amount of negative possibilities. Much love
Although the people in the distant future might also lament that they are not born early enough to see where things started millions of years ago. You are always born too late to do things in the past, and born too early to do things in the future.
It genuinely saddens me that I will never get to see just how far humankind can go. It somehow feels lonely too, like being excluded from something great.
Animals, insects have brains...humans are really nothing all that special in the Galaxy....
I hope that immortality will be a thing during my lifetime, you should too
What also is crazy to me is how they will have all this footage of people 3000 years before them. Imagine how cool that would be
@@a.q.2330 to be honest. Humans being immortal doesnt sound that great. For both the humans themselves, and the planet
@@Jason-..- but it should be a possibility for those who want it. If civilization doesn't end some rich guys will and are definitely trying it so we will see if it's possible.
If some future human sees this comment in 1,000 years when other planets get colonised, hi from the past!
edit: 0.1% of the way there!
edit: 0.2% of the way there!
thinking ahead
youtube will probably wont exist if that time comes cause of its current state lol
Yes
I'm also gonna say hi here!
someone put a rickroll in this reply section
Two best quotes that perfectly describe the wonder of humanity :
"We went from worshipping the moon
To walking on it"
Can't be said any better, got goosebumps from it
From worshipping the Sun powered by nuclear reactions to making nuclear weapons.
Did we though? 🤔
@@MD.orion1 idk, did u ?
@MrCdm75 K
and then some guys decided said moon actually never existed, closing the loop
Wow! This video is the most thought-provoking I've seen on this platform. Thank you very much!
I love the message.
Humanity's goal should always be to make the world a better place for not only ourselves, but for those in the future as well!
Not only for humans but for other animals aswel.
And that is called sustainable development
Humans are basically self-learning programs at the fundamental level. Why not let AI and robots be the next evolutionary step of humans? They are smarter and more energy-efficient. More importantly, they don't need to steal energy from other lifeforms (such as plants and animals) to sustain themselves. They also don't need to poop.
One human will be responsible for an average of one animal death per day in their lifetime, 10 times more deaths if plant lives are accounted for.
@@azar9383 why?
Except Humanity by a nature is voracious and oblivious so we can only hope it will sustain that 1000 years more though highly likely is armed conflict about control over natural resources necessary to function.
I have a feeling the creator of Kurzgesagt found enlightenment while holding some kind of nutshell. Your efforts to spread the message of human optimism has been inspiring to say the least.
Whoever you are, i want you to know that your work is a form of therapy for us amateur philosophers. I wanna meet you one day and give you a big hug, you deserve it.
The book they wrote is also an extremely good read
Just wanted to mention that 'in a nutshell' is a way of saying 'to put it simply', in case this wasn't known. For those with english as a second language (or possibly even some native english speakers) the name of the channel might be a bit confusing if they weren't aware of this saying.
🇪🇷🤡 Opinion rejected.
@@sandradee4331 that's literally what they said
Kurzgesagt is actually a team of a few dozen people doing the research and animation. The voice you hear is just the voice actor they hire to read the scripts.
This is why I want to live forever. I want to see how far humanity could go. It's like being a part of a team and you want to know what happened to them if you died in the game
the worst and best part is you live forever. everyone you love will eventually die, but you will meet others, too
@@Greggorto But nothing lives forever. Not even the universe.
@@LordTalax the universe goes forever, after heat death it will collapse and another bing bang will happen,
@@charlieterz5033 It’s still a theory or a hypothesis but I do hope so that it will happen
If i think too hard about this it makes me so sad, because i won't be around to see most of anything. I believe in our species so much and i want so much to see our future
This video gave me a panic attack on how useless I am on earth yet made me so inspired. Kurzgesagt somehow makes the topic of death seem like a nice thing. I love your videos.
You missed the point of the video, it's not about death, it's about life and living and all the future generations that have yet to be born.
You're not useless, you're necessary. You're existence is required for the existence of so many of those future people. I mean would you have the millions of years of your ancestors evolution that came before you, that unbroken chain, end with you?
Live long and prosper or better yet, live well and procreate.
As a Brazilian, I'm very happy to hear about the translation of your videos to my language. I already share lots of kurzgesagt's videos among my friends, but unfortunatelly lots of them doesn't understand english well enough to aprecciate them on their entirety. Congratulations on your amazing work. I would love to help translate some videos if needed.
You write better English than most native speakers. Congratulations on that.
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Same here, I’m truly truly happy to share those incredible videos to my friends who don’t know English but are as curious and open minded as myself
The channel is so good that it motivates to learn English, the fact the most useful language, not to stay the same.
@@mullekad thank you Very much, i'm always a little insecure about the grammar, since I don't write in english everyday
As a person who often thinks about this time being “The end” of humanity, this is actually a really nice perspective :)
Most people that think this time is bad are just living in a resentful left wing bubble.
@@ulyssesvercosa6196 simply time is relative ......
- I get you...except for Jesus and Elvis, we haven't done a very good job.
@@ulyssesvercosa6196 what? The right wing people tell me all the time we are already in a dystopian 1984 like hellscape. I guess it's all perspective?
GOD strictly forbids occultism and spiritism! Read the Bible if you want to know what the future holds: Please repent because we are living in the E N D times, the 7year Tribulation with the world leader (Antichrist) is right around the corner, that's GOD'S judgement upon all unbelievers! But there is hope - get saved and be rapture ready: accept JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior today!!!
Please listen to real theologians like Dr. John Ankerberg.
Facing down cosmic horror and existentialism with an optimistic outlook, I hope all these new language channels do great. The world needs more Kurzgesagt and I honestly believe the world is better off for it
Ungarium leviosa!
Cosmic wonder is simply an optimistic outlook at the same things that cause cosmic horror: Large numbers, the vastness of space, the eventual meaninglessness of our actions. While cosmic horror shows the fear in those things, cosmic wonder shows us that these eternities are just another reason that we should do as much as possible with out little tiny crumb of endlessness. It really is all about perspective.
@@ccriztoff why are you spamming this shit tho
As a human, seeing the theoretical perspective of humanity inhabiting all the known galaxy for billions of years is frightening! It looks like the plague subduing all the space! We could be considered the scourge of the Universe by other beings!
Being called “The Scourge of the Universe” is badass! I can’t wait!
I've been watching Kurzgesagt for almost 6 years now, to see them progress and expand to new languages and share their quality animations mixed with scientific knowledge and still making it free, this has been an adventure, but like humans, I hope you this beautiful channel is only at the beginning of something great!
Edit: Thanks
Kurzgesagt........1 Million A.D.!!
One day these videos will be used in classrooms ( they probably already are ).
@@augmentedcamel In one of my bio classes they used this video to show a concept
I am Grateful.
I feel just saying "thank you" to the kurzgesagt team is under selling just how grateful I am to them for making this video, especially as it comes at a time when the world seems confusing and everyday is an exercise in managing the fear of living another day.
It gives hope when you realise that this could be "the beginning and not the end". That there is much more for us to do and accomplish. So again I say to the creators of this channel 'i am grateful"
I wouldn’t worry about living another day. It’s not living another day your need to worry about.
Abortion?
this is how I feel too. thanks for this comment. you wrote what I wanted to say 🤍
You put my heart in words! ❤
yea thats u but the ones that dont think like u and polute the earth ..... we will never go past 2500 and i just feel bad cuz there may never be another civilization to exist and thats why we need to conquer our solar system an then the Milky Way
This reminds me of my favorite quote, whose author I cannot recall at the moment:
"Society will only truly prosper when old men plant trees whose shade they'll never be in."
Excellent video. But I'm afraid with how things are right now, I don't have much hope 😅
You don't have much hope and that's perfectly fine. Look what 8 billion people are doing to this poor planet. Now imagine, what those trillions will do.
Now be a good human and uproot any tree whose shade the future idiots might sit in.
@@sohrabalimovies while i like your thinking, i say we should probably still be hopeful
you have no hope because of murricas bubbles everywhere! and you *_(finally)_* have to pay for them in a hard way
meanwhile 2/3 of the world _(which you never count)_ - pretty optimistic ;)
Kind of only gotten worse now that there's more humans than ever and they're really starting to tackle personal identity, self-esteem and self-worth, isn't it?
I'm not sure which is the original, but there's a saying in Chinese: "前人种树，后人乘凉", which translate to "people in the past plants tree, [so that] people in the future can rest in the shade".
My long lost descendants, if you ever see this in hundreds of years, just know I was here watching this video on my phone just like you.
I cannot stress enough how great these people are, and how influenceable it could be around the world!
The standpoints are always solid, well researched and most importantly, very valid in the world as it is right now.
young people growing up with these videos can see how much more there is to the world than so!
I hope this channel will thrive forever!
One of the best things ever to come out of Germany is this Chanel and I would wish our government would fund them for their cause because they really deserve it.
@@Manie230 naja die rundfunkgebühr regelt
@@multiarray2320 ja aber ich glaube da würde mehr gehen mit Fördermitteln
*There is an AGENDA using all this enviromental blah blah blah to achieve their their self interests, they give a SHIT to environment or to human rights or to animal rights or black people rights etc, all these blah blah blah is a tool.*
*THEY GIVE A SHIT to you, they are bilionares who wants to be more biliorare.*
They pay the media, they pay the press and they pay fake scientific researchs, they pay artists, they pay everything to keep the lies and the Agenda.
Look Greta Turberg, she is supported by George Soros.
What we can't fix as individual we can do it as collective and being open minded and question things sometimes we might be wrong and overlook things that are issues too it important not to go into thinking we're always right about everything and that sometimes we do things that are harmful unknowingly to everyone like people still make assumptions on their gender, races, and culture that aren't true like people assume a black person is alethic when they might not be or a Asian is same when they might not be we're all human here don't assume thing about anyone we exceed and fail a things not matter who we are and what we look like outside won't affect that
This is why I often find myself wondering about the mystery of the far future with a touch of melancholy.
So many things I will never get to see, so many things that we can only dream about now being mundane reality in the future.
But also with optimism: we got so far because of the ones that came before us. Through their sacrifice and hard work we went from, as the video so eloquently put it, "worshipping the moon, to walking on it". Look at all the things we have acomplished together as the human race, and all the things we've built, all the technology that sometimes is nearly indistinguishable from magic, and then just imagine the things we will create in the far future. I get shivers just thinking about it.
My only wish is to maybe someday be reborn again somehow, to see it all, or at least some of it. But for now all we can do is make the most of what we have now while leaving another stepping stone in our history on which future humans can step on to go even further than any one of us alive today could ever dream of going. ❤️
Well said and dreamt about. I have the same sentiments, and lustful imagination on what we may become, and what the future looks like.
I often ask people "if u could briefly visit the future or past what would u pick? and what time period?"
Personally I choose the year 3000. This wouldn't be so unrecognizable all things considered and would give a sense of where we are headed.
My wish would be to become a omnipresente Ghost and travel in time, past and future to see everything by my own eyes
Reincarnation ? Might be a possibility... who knows?
One of the best things about the future is that we can all take our own small role in shaping it here and now.
I feel very similarly to you. It’s melancholy indeed knowing that we may never see the long term fruits of our labor. I say, that’s all the more reason to make the best of the present!
❤️
@@luatambau yeah was gonna say “who knows, maybe you’ll see it in another life”
Your videos always bringing tears to my eyes.
"The last human born" is such an intriguing concept. I wonder with technology, biological and/or digital enhancements throughout the centuries if our very distant grand children would even be considered "human" by our limited perspective.
Would humans even be "born" by then?
As you say, at that point what even is a human? What does it mean to be a human? Is it necessary to constrain ourselves entirely to the natural course of evolution? Genetic technologies allowing us to create new lifeforms that can thrive in completely different atmospheric environments is already within our grasp using CRISPR and its coming research. Leaving earth isn't even that difficult either, assuming we become serious about energy development and deployment using nuclear power. We are already positioned for starting colonies on Mars and the moon, with the right planning we can build a interplanetary communications and resource management system using specialized space stations, robotic systems, mining tools, magnetic rail slingshots on low gravity moons / worlds, development of megastructures like the stellar engine or Dyson sphere... there is so much potential for our people.
I really see a digital humanity, if we are able to uncover all the secrets of the brain eventually it might be morally accepted to "upload" yourself. It would be a huge benefit, and logically the best choice to make.
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if you think about this. Who was the last Homo erectus? last Neanderthal? how was it for them? before the homo sapiens rose into dominance. curious.
@@Boombi_ *serial experiments Lain intensifies*
"What we do matters for all the people who do not exist yet." wow... Thank you Kurzgesagt for opening my mind up to a completely new form of empathy and motivation.
This is a anti-abortion video 😂
😂
@@NE0MAS While that may seem the case, the projected "number of births" don't change if they don't get born at all.
@@NE0MAS i personally think this mindset isn't incompatible with a pro-choice ideology, as abortion doesn't really decrease the overall birthrate, but instead result in more births from parents with the means to take care of their child properly, causing an increase in quality of life.
@@NE0MAS While I hope you're joking, I still want to clarify that what's expressed in this video has little to do with today's "abortion" topic.
"Abortion" as it is now means cancelling a pregnancy while it's in progress. But the "potential humans" that Kurzgesagt are referring to in this video are humans that will be born _if_ humanity doesn't doom itself.
I have taught science in a number of international schools now and I really enjoy showing your content to students. It has always been a wonderful way to level out the thinking when you have kids entering the classroom with very differing views. You've started some excellent conversations. Thank you!
What countries have you taught? I'm interested in teaching in international schools overseas.
@@noahlee3925 Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. I'd recommend it, I really enjoyed my time teaching overseas. I hope you do too!
Very cool
When teens have to be warned not to eat laundry detergent, it's safe to say humanity has reached peak evolution, and each generation forthwith, is just getting stupider and degenerating into the troglodytes we once evolved from...
My favorite part of kurzgesagt other then the intresting facts is the intro jingle! Keep up the good work!
As many others have said, it looks like this video is something A LOT of us needed. I thank Kurzgesagt for it with all my heart
now only if the people in power who have influene to do _Something_ were to see this and take it to heart...
i mean politicians , billionaires, etc. us normal folk cant do anything really. its up to world leaders when it comes to how the world will be in 10s to 100s of years from now. i can barely get my family to go to a different restaurant lol
Or, the general procreation culture becomes "one child per woman" by default (extremely plausible) and we exponentially die out within the next few hundred years. The end.
Sorry you needed to hear this kind of optimism. Maybe you ought to start listening to more forward-thinking voices.
@@bigmeatswangin5837 Or, the general procreation culture becomes "one child per woman" by default (extremely plausible) and we exponentially die out within the next few hundred years. The end.
@@valinorean4816 I doubt we'd ever go extinct like that. We are still animals, after all.
I think it'll stabilise at around two. If nothing else we'll compensate by artificial children.
I’m serious when I say tears came to my eyes…tears of motivation, tears of joy, tears of the unknown… this video is beyond amazing. Thank you so much. I believe this video has left an impact on me that I haven’t yet fully grasped. During these times of uncertainty and chaos, this video made me feel proud, or maybe just happy to be part of something so big as life and humanity.
I agree it did the same for me, we don't realise our potential for the things we can do.
We must kill pride
And we should never let go on faith
That is our goal ; our purpose ; the reason for our existence .
The video says life needs three things. Energy, resources, a flat surface…. There are plenty of planets that fit this criteria. That doesn’t mean we can live there. We live in an ecosystem of many organisms and we are dependent on numerous other species of plants and animals for our survival. We would need to bring them with us if we want to live the way we do now. The only thing that we can send to other planets now are robots and machines that can survive there.
“We went from humans worshiping the moon to humans walking on it”
This is the most beautiful line I’ve heard this month
And then we have failed to go back because we're too worried about making sure everyone knows that the White people who put us on the moon are properly treated as the demons they are.
But I'm sure Sha'quin'ta and Dar'quaan are gonna be the ones making us an extrasolar species lmao
The moment he said that, I just knew it would be mentioned in the comments and I must admit, that was quite a significant line!
We went from humans worshiping the moon to humans not worshiping or respecting allah. 😑😑
@@abdalrahmanassi4579 good riddance. religion is a plague to our society.
I love that quote but the sad reality is 12 people have been there, more will probably go there because of another type of weapons race.
The rockets were built as delivery systems for nukes back then, hopefully we can deliver life instead, but I sincerely doubt it looking at our tribalistic and ballistic ways. x)
We share this planets' biosphere with 10 million other species. Sustaining this entire system here and now is what matters. for us and them
_"The man who moves mountains begind by moving small stones away"_ I really love this video, this channel, all the content; let's improve our future, starting with small actions. C'mon and let's support Kurzgesagt :)
I always wanted to write a story about the last human - a little girl, raised by her father in the wreckage of the world. She's gifted with an AI companion, and constantly finds herself in and out of cryosleep, watching the world as it ages and perhaps eventually recovers after some huge disaster. Her companion is always there, although he changes with time as well. He's so patient, waiting around for thousands or millions of years for her to wake up for a brief moment. Eventually she leaves Earth, falling asleep to dream of the stars until she wakes again.
Thanks for the neat video, it's an inspiration to perhaps actually begin writing!
That sounds like a really cool story!
Watch the music video for Shelter (the one by Porter Robinson and Madeon).
Sounds like the character from the music video called SHELTER.
@@spren. That's one of my favorite music videos actually! It came out just a few months after my father passed away, leaving me his home, so it actually has special meaning for me and is a partial inspiration for my silly story idea.
You're right on the money, that's a great recommendation in context, so thanks!
Nice idea
The production value just never stops. Cant imagine how long this one took. Major props to everyone, subscribed on Patreon now
Their last video came out 3 weeks ago. So...it probably took around 3 weeks.
@@BlueZirnitra Watch the video on how they produce videos. Takes a lot longer, just have a big production team to work on multiple projects at one time.
@@BlueZirnitra (Oversimplifying a bit but) if 10 people spend 3 weeks on a thing, that thing actually takes about 30 weeks of work. And there's probably more than 10 people involved in these.
Imagine the last human watching this video in future
PLEASE also have translation in Mandarin Chinese in the not-so-distant future!!! I want to share all your videos with my parents and have them understand all the beautiful nuances in your videos!
And Clementine, too.
Mandarin would be a hard one because most mandarin speakers are blocked behind a firewall that doesn't have youtube
@@aCeeLeo There are still quite a lot of Chinese people beyond the firewall and outside China. So it is also viable.
@@aCeeLeo Side note: a significant population of overseas chinese and their descendants still speak chinese, or at least understand mandarin chinese (汉语 ) along side a regional language (Hakka, Min Nan, Cantonese, etc.). Example: most overseas chinese communities in south east asia. Although, worldwide, there are only ~40 million overseas chinese, and since the PRC govt. restrict youtube I can personally accept that we shelf chinese kurzgesagt for now (just the two Koreas combined is twice as many as overseas chinese, around 75 mil., arguably more useful for them tbh).
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I love watching Kurzgesagt videos because they're always a roulette between "renewed hope for the future" and "existential crisis" lmao
Try watch Koyaanisqatsi
My thoughts exactly lol
The fact that it's been more and more "hope", "don't worry", and "go back to sleep" from Kurz, I'm starting to believe that you should be concerned about the future they're uncomfortable admitting to you.
I gotta say tho, the comaprison between humans and survival rate of other mammals is an absoluteley horrible one. No other mammals has had the technology we've had or come even close to it.
@@Thesamurai1999 they explicitly say in the beginning that while our technical advancements point to this number being a lot higher, our technical advancements also bring us a lot closer to our demise. We are better at healing ourselves but we are also a hell of a lot better at destroying ourselves.
Also the rough estimate of a million is a conservative value that that could be a lot higher. The whole point of the video is just to give a sense of scale. There is a lot more to come after us, the actual number is irrelevant.
Being a historian, I'm inclined to think that every moment is crucially important; it's more a matter of being in a place where you get to witness or partake in that importance.
there are so many great quotes from history left unspoken because nobody bothered to say them
@@wren_. Or unremembered because nobody wrote them down
I wish we could get a little less historically significant moments in our lives though.
Obviously that's not entirely accurate, seeing as modern historians are a lot less obsessed with big calamitous events and more interested in normal lives than they were in the past, but still, I'd like a decade where weeks happen, rather than a week where decades happen.
Being a historian you should realize that anywhere you may be your life will be if paramount importance for anyone who will be able to discover it in a far enough future. Researchers will recoil at no expanse to find out about the language you speak, what you eat and what you believe in if you're that one skeleton that's gonna be found in the ice or even fossilized...
@@NKWittmann They'll even get excited over the trash in your can.
I’ve been sharing kurzgesagt since it had 10k subs ❤❤❤❤ legit the best channel in yt!!
Hi, I watched your video about CRISPR and „the power of genetics“ a few years ago when I was still in High-school in 10th grade. I found it after my biology teacher brought a paper about the usage of CRISPR in terms of a therapy for HIV. It was just stunning and fascinating to me because HIV was like a big deal of a disease and this article was basically a huge step in the direction of a „cure“. It fascinated me so much that I started searching and reading about it at home until I saw this wonderful and inspiring video. I just got straight goosebumps when I saw it for the first time.
Now I‘m studying molecular biotechnology and molecular medicine as a main course at university and last week I got the opportunity to work with CRISPR in the lab myself. Couldn’t be more proud and thankful because this wouldn’t have been if I didn’t watch your video back in high school.
So thank you very much guys, you are doing a great job and I love every video.
You are literally building the scientific future ❤️
Congratulations!!! That’s so exciting! Yeah it’s crazy how the internet has been an influence on careers. The building in minecraft made me want to go into engineering, and now I’m becoming one. Best of luck!
Awesome!!! I hope you have a super career in medicine.
@@KingOfTheDerp wow, that sounds awesome. It’s so great when you find a passion and can create your work and job upon it. Wish only the best for you!
@@wynfrithnichtwo8423 thank you, appreciate that! :)
@@jeremyrichter33 Same to you! Yeah, I'm excited to work in the field becomes I'm pretty passionate :D
It is weird not to feel
- existential crisis
- or depression
- or at least feeling of complete insignificance in the grand scheme of things
after watching kurzgesagt video :D. This really gives optimistic outlook on humanity. Shame I can't live to see whether humanity can live up to its potential and what it will all be like.
The way I like to think of it is - The particles that I'm constituted of will remain in the universe. Therefore, I will still be part of it just as much as I am now. And who knows, maybe I'll become part of some greater consciousness that experiences things on different dimension.
(not trying to make some theological statements here, just fantasizing and processing)
But until I go, I would like to optimize the chances of my specie to carry on.
pfft you are the creator literally change yourself change the world
@@kinleyage the more that science, logic and knowledge progresses.. i find it hard to NOT believe it’s actually a logical idea! Hahaha
get help if this make you depressed, I recommend exercise and good diet there is something wrong with you
@@xomox5316 Nothing wrong with empathy. It's those without it we should worry about.
Im not gonna lie I thought having more people meant more problems but while it does it also comes with some value, it will also bring us closer to improvements and perfections in many things. Thank you Kurz and the team on doing so much hard work and educating all of us. I cant wait for the next video, yall have a good 👍
Future’s noice…wait
It actually does. The amount of matter on earth remain the same. So more humans mean less resources can exist. It because it's not enough material to make resources as we consume them.
@@jermainekngdom3154 Elon is Working on it lol
It's the optimist vs pessimist argument.
The optimist sees billions more people trying to cure cancer, stop poverty, and making video games.
The pessimist sees the opposite thousands of giga-corps putting patents on genes and medicine to make sure that there are treatments but never any cures, trying to amass more wealth creating to create larger gap between rich and poor with much fewer rich, and having the most DRM of DRM games filled with nothing but P2W microtransactions and ads making games only fun if you constantly throw cash at them.
@@jermainekngdom3154 We're smart, we'll figure it out.
YOU matter. Who you are matters. What you do matters. How you choose to show up matters.
Every cause has an effect 😊
Thinking of ourselves as a species at the beginning of the journey instead of at the end really puts it all in perspective, the potential that's ahead of us and the importance of our actions going forward. I definitely prefer this way of looking at our future, all the generations yet to come are depending on us now to survive and thrive. Makes me feel like I'm living towards something worthwhile.
Thank you Kurzgesagt, for this positive spin on a possible future outlook. I think many of us could use more positive news right now instead of all the dread being thrown around, just makes people feel hopeless.
We would be very special if we were at the start of human history, so the mediocrity principle suggests we are at the point where humans are most numerous, and that humanity will die out in the next few hundred to thousand years.
Another way to look at it is, well your own life projects to probably billions and billions times quadrillions of lives in the future. You alone are the father of all of them.
@@surur_ Maybe, but who is to judge our future when we can still change it, and besides there's no better feeling than proving something or someone wrong :)
@@cryonim Given that the birth rate is below replacement in most of the world, this again seems unlikely.
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I recently graduated with my environmental science degree and I absolutely love your videos. A lot of the topics discussed through the course of my education made it seem like reducing, let alone reversing, climate change is near impossible. Your videos are a huge inspiration and moral boost. I’m currently working to help reduce wildfires in California through responsible vegetation management. Maybe sometime in the future you can do a video on the science of wildfires, why they have increased so drastically in recent years, and how we are starting to and can continue to implement technologies and methods that help reduce them.
The climate was bound to get warmer anyway(we came out from a Little Ice Age that lasted from the Genghis Khan to Elvis), humans just sped it up.
What we need to do is not screw it up further and manage it well
Weird flex
Funny that environmental science degrees seem to teach people to be climate change deniers, just in the reverse direction. It took a lot of human ingenuity to warm the planet via CO2 emissions, it will also take a lot to change it back.
Remember to have kids too, so youre not the last generation trying to solve our problems.
@@TheJukkis No.
Having children is not wise.
Its incredible how this was both humbling and empowering. By emphasizing how we are currently such a large percentage of humans to have lived, and will also be such a small percentage of humans to ever live, I feel gratitude and respect for our ancestors, and responsible for our children. We are so much and so little at the same time.
We are eternity in an hour , a droplet in a quiet rainstorm , the wind that washes away the dust of yesterdays.
We are the nothing that could never be , yet everything that ever will exist.
8B/1Tde = ~ 10^-32%
2 years later and this video still gives me chills
This was probably one of the most awe inspiring videos from Kurz I've seen in a while. DAMN. Had to pause many times and just sit back in my chair and think for a second. Hoooly shit. To think if this was a marathon, we're still in the first 100ft? I've supported this channel for a long time, posters, Patreon, app, etc. Keep it coming and keep opening my horizons and mind. Powerful stuff.
If this was a marathon 26.2 miles, taking their estimate of 10 billion years, a 100 year life span would only be a little over 0.4mm
@@dotdioscorea4843 holy shit
Jokes on you I'm numb to awe inspiring and near infinitely expansive ideas in videos cause exurb1a has ruined me
"Quadrillions of unborn humans are at our mercy"
Most powerful sentence ever uttered.
laughs in american with uterus
@@craggolly As a fellow American, it is scary right now, but please try to keep somewhat optimistic. Things are grim right now, but it will get better as the older generation leaves office and the new ones take their place.
Yeah that's a really powerful and beautiful line but the timing is a little unfortunate lmao
@@floppavevo5920 I'm hoping with you. But, it looks like right-wing conservative ideas are just gaining popularity, it's not just the old generation. The same thing is happening in Europe
@@bobrandom5545 wonder why that is 🤔
This has to be undoubtedly the most inspiring, interesting channel on youtube. Not only have they grown from a small channel into a worldwide one but they have kept their videos engaging and original for so long! Thank you!
And they have managed to captivate us with each and every video. Inspiring stuff.
humans genuinely are rad as hell, i wish more sci-fi stories would delve into that aspect of humanity instead of it being a "plague" or "virus" or some other lame "humans bad" narrative. A sci-fi film or series where the main character is humanity as a whole, traversing the difficulties of expanding from Earth into space would be such a generational watch
Its the entertainment paradox. Our attention is usually only grabbed by drama, action, horror. Thats why shows about conflict are so popular. I think an optimistic scifi movie or show is needed. But I fear it wouldnt sell well in the market. Humans want a type of excitement. Not, I fear, the type that such a show would generate. There is still room for it in books and games I think though.
"Waiting for match. People in queue: 998,235,482,043,003,276,184,400,264,193,399,899,999,992"
Thank you guys for being so optimistic. I'm getting so tired of people talking about how humanity's gonna die off in the next couple of centuries and it's really refreshing to hear people talk about how great we have the potential to be.
Of course the channel will have an optimism tone. Majority of humans have an optimism bias so in order to grow, the channel needs to play to those needs. Truth be told humanity is most likely gonna collapse if we keep heading in the same direction as we are now. Being realistic on where we are can help us achieve what this video is aiming for but being optimistic with no real plans is just plain delusional.
@@TrueWisdom992 Dude what are you talking about? Humanity has been improving. We are now living in the best times that have ever been created worldwide even if not everyone can share in that prosperity. If humans keep going the way we're going, everything is going to get better. If you look back even a 100 years things are far worse than they are now, so I'm not entirely sure what you're talking about.
@@Izzmonster can you list the ways humanity is improving?
@@TrueWisdom992 Lowest rate of world hunger, lowest crime worldwide, lowest mortality rate for children(babies), longest lifespan, better health overall (though people need to watch their sugar intake), lowest rate of disease, and more. Literally every single metric has improved over time, and we're going to keep improving, learning what works and what doesn't.
@@Izzmonster that’s only one side of the story and even then your points doesn’t directly correlate with what would lead to collapse.
I was afraid, this would be a rather depressive video, but i love that you guys managed to make the topic "last human in the universe" pretty cool and uplifting :D
One of the few
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optimistic nihilism when? I want the kurz that gives depression back
@@HideFromIt oh don't worry. That's their default
This channel in general seems to pander to the wholesome crowd these days with ridiculously idealistic and fantastical optimism.
Though I get it, I wish I could still buy into it...
This was such a pleasant video ❤️ usually the scale of the universe dwarfs everything and makes it seem like nothing anyone does really matters but this take on the future really gives a new meaning to life, as said instead of thinking of us at the end we should be able to see what's to come and all the potential to advance.
Many people begin to believe that they don't matter and get depressed and/or feel their actions won't hurt others, but this video gives the exact opposite message... I love it!
It's incredible how the humanity will progress in future, a prity i wont able to see...
incredible how I have always felt this way, but seeing it visually… completely astonishing. It’s incredible. I do believe we have a very long way to go, which is why I love for people to always be the best version of themselves and encourage others to do so as well❤️
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You have become my cure to this pessimism that has been assailing me lately. As soon as I am down, demoralized or hopeless, I open RUclips and automatically find myself on this channel. Thank you so much for all the effort, creativity and passion you put into making these videos. We are grateful for it.
There are a few channels like this one in our language aswell that i appreciate, but I do agree that this one is particoularly helpful in many ways.
Kurz gives hopes, makes you curious and inspires people.
I was happy to read a comment that i could relate so much to.
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being positive is fine but the reality cant be positive, its just not in human nature, humans are greedy and thus there wont be a good future, unless you think having no rights and have your life be controlled, and be told what to and not to do is great then you do you
This was actually one of the few videos that gave me an Existential Crisis while leaving me completely speechless yet so hopeful.
Agreed
1 tectillion possible future lives, just makes me know I will be forgotten :(
We can't change the past, but we can still change the future.
Just a regular kurzgesagt video i guess
@@AdamadA2 as will all those people, so why worry about being remembered. Be content with being able to remember your own life, and look on it with pride.
The start of the video has given me a totally different perspective on humanity and made more optimistic.
All Kurzgesagt videos are good. Some of them are legendary. This is one of the legends. There's a kind of real, earnest hope here - not rooted in some over-saccharin-ated "humans will overcome any problem it faces" optimism - but an honest glimpse at our potential. We've done wrong, terrible things - brought an end to SOO much for SOO many, but it isn't too late for us. Times feel bad - feel dark and like they've never been closer to precipices' edge, like we're going backward at a rate of decades per week - but now is the time to fight for our future harder than ever. I want to see that future. I want to be part of it.
Thank you, Kurzgesagt. This is exactly the message I needed to hear.
Onward to great things!
I hope one day it is acknowledged the impact that YOU, Kurzgesagt, had on our species. As far as I can see you are the preeminent science educator for the public. I hope you have a billion subscribers eventually
Nice profile pic
no. an octillion. and if immortality is ever invented in a few decades...
uh what.....you ever heard of books? scientific papers? science related magazines?
You learn far more by searching for knowledge yourself, instead of waiting for some channel to compress it for you into a vido
the only iptact thsi creepy ch1ld mo1estiong youytueb channel with have is damaging peopels development, and promoting lies.
teh narrator is a ch1ld mo1estor, and so are the producers.
@@andrefasching1332 too lazy to read those especially when i don't exactly have to wait for a new video knowing how big youtube is i can just watch youtube with the same effect
I've always wondered how likely it is that I was born in this specific time in human history and I frankly never considered that the odds might be affected by the future. This video really put the rarity of my existence at this point in Human development in to perspective. Thanks Kurzgesagt!
This video brings me from thinking that we are a liability for humanity to having a responsibility to humanity.
y’all don’t understand how insane this video is. This might cause such a positive impact on the world, and for that, I thank you. Everyone who worked on this video, thank you.
i get it.. but do the people who have influence at the world level get it. thats the question
Or, the general procreation culture becomes "one child per woman" by default (extremely plausible) and we exponentially die out within the next few hundred years. The end.
@@valinorean4816 'Exponentialy dying' is such a dumb idea that i have no words, if it would ever come to that there would be international efforts to counter that, even drastic measures like cloning
@@nadarith1044 I could see egg and sperm harvesting with a kickback for the donors being pretty likely if that happened.
I noticed them spamming the comments too, btw. It's either a bot, or someone looking for attention for their "unique" idea. Lol
@@nadarith1044 you mean people will be forced to reproduce - or care about kids - against their will, and on a mass scale on top of that? that's an infinitely dumber idea (that's obviously never gonna work) than the very realistic warning I wrote
I sometimes feel that we are going to evolve into a dystopian civilization, but kurzgesagt changed that. It made me believe that we are on the road to a brighter future and if we play our cards right we may last as long as the universe. Thank you kurzgesagt for spreading the message of humanity's potential to be better and for inspiring many people (including myself) to pursue science.
We have already evolved into a dystopian civilization. The future described in this video is just wishful thinking. Our current civilization will likely destroy itself in a matter of decades.
"As long as the universe" this alone gives me chills
Another important thing to remember is that we’re the only known chance for life to survive from Earth.
If we die out, so does life on our planet. We will make industrialization impossible for any future intelligence. Without oil and coal reserves, and easily accessible metals/minerals, even if an intelligent species evolved after us they would be stuck here. The sun will engulf the earth, and life on this planet will cease to exist.
We are it. We are the one chance to preserve the life and history of our beautiful planet. If we mess it up, that’s it.
We can survive as long as our perception to survival lasts.
This is why abortion should be illegal, untold numbers of unborn babies could die at the hands of these godless liberals! In Trump we trust.
Adore this piece. These optimistic ideas rarely get explored in media (Star Trek aside) which is a shame because I find our staggering potential far more interesting than the dystopian fixation pop culture seems to have.
Agreed, even though it’s just a TV show watching Star Trek The Next Generation as a kid molded how I think of the future of humanity and looking back a lot of the behaviors I have to this day can be attributed to that, as far as being a conscientious person and a globalist worldview. It makes me sad to when I hear so many people speak negatively about globalism or even the idea of a world government. I hope humanity can reach that inevitable situation peacefully and without undue catastrophe’s
@@lucasm8528 A world government would fail to accurately represent its people's interests.
@@apersononlineyes6554 they said a world government not one with total control over every facit of life down to the individual level. It seems as though you're ignoring the fact that modern governments fail on that same front quite frequently. Sometimes on purpose.
@@solsystem1342
"they said a world government not one with total control over every facit of life down to the individual level." I know what they said, it doesn't change the fact that a world government would fail to represent everyone fairly and accurately. If South America wants policy X while the rest of the world wants policy Y then South America would be forced to implement policy Y despite the fact that nobody there wants said policy.
"modern governments fail on that same front quite frequently. Sometimes on purpose." No shit, that's why I want power to be more decentralized.
@@apersononlineyes6554 do you think there is a limit to how large a decentralized government could be then?
Am i the only one that just wants to live forever JUST to see what we as people will develop?
Infinite respect to kurzgesagt fighting back at the doomerism that most media has forced upon our lives. You are doing humans a service. What a wonderful video!!
HEAR HEAR!!! Completely agree!!
If you think there will be 11 billion people in 2100, you simply do not understand the implications of climate change. There are some seriously bad decades coming, and few of the old rules will apply. Now there actually is a mechanism for the 'end times'.
HEAR HEAR!!! Completely agree!!
Yes but tbh would be nice if average citizen would start thinking by themselves and not by reading a clickbait article where they just throw "SCIENTISTS WARN OF HORRIBLE TERRIBLE DISASTROUS APOCALYPTIC LIFE ENDING" bluh bluh bluh nonsense. Those articles make it seem as if they quoting everything every scientist every said, while actually scientists don't say bs like that and they never say "the end is nigh". Better read actual scientific reports, with data and estimations given, ofc the hard part is that average citizen would need to do logical thinking of what would it mean. Scientist would show estimations of ecological impacts on species and changes for the ecosystems. Climate change does not even possess any extinction level danger for humanity, only for some sensitive animal and plant species, which those clickbait articles turn to be extinction for everyone and the average person takes the bait without taking more research. After just a bit of research u don't even need to make sure something is over exaggerated, u just know it after seeing the title and reading couple sentences into. Yes climate change still is bad, i'd say it's better to save those animal species if we can. Plastic pollution + acidity in oceans are also big issues for marine biology.
People shouldn't need this video to know the possibilities of humanity, plus even before this video this channel posted many future of humanity videos where they show what kind of civilization humanity cold be in the distant future and tbh very realistic future.
This video made me feel so much better about ourselves and our existence, while putting into perspective how important these times still are, despite potentially being the beginning of something unfathomably bigger. Thank you for making this video and I really appreciate how you translated to other languages, now I can introduce this channel to my parents!
stop listening to fear-mongers
You don't need pseudo science to take a positive perspective. You can go back to geocentric idea where humans were in the center in the universe. From the mathematical perspective it can be done.
You can also assume that humans are only one inteligent form in the universe.
@@007arek Bruh your reply is kinda irrelevant to the op's comment. Don't you think so?
Does not make me feel better at all. Putin is most likely going to launch Nukes.
Anybody doing an honest research since WWI and doesn't think mankind is on a path to self destruction is delusional.
Either divine intervention or some advanced extra terrestrial beings will be needed to save this current situation of mankind.
@@HypnosisBear nope, read his first sentence. Why anyone could think that these times aren't important?
Maybe you didn't get me, I also meant geocentrism as a human centrism
Very happy to see Kurzgesagt "expanding" to other countries. Thank you for the content. And thanks to everyone who makes it possible.
Colonization. The sun does not set on the Kurzgesagt empire.
realizing im at the very beginning of the human journey makes me wanna tear a bit, idk just humbling to know with all that we've achieved so far we still dont know how amazing we really are until someone some million years from now looks back
makes me want a time machine to look at the future and how my generation made an impact
ur not tho😂😂
@@nadim10000 ? Did you watch the video? It clearly explains that we are at the beginning
I'm so curious what they'll think of our philosophy, will they teach the history of philosophy all the way from Plato to their time?
@@smokescreen100 your delusional for believing something out of a youtube video so easily, the world is infact near the end, if your gonna base your personal belief on this maybe try look into other beliefs where there are signs that have already come true, signs of the end of times. No disrespect but dont be naive, if your gonna ignore this message, you do you
I watched hundreds of videos on RUclips pertaining to science,tech and human life ... This channel is my go to channel. I need to get me a calender from their store, inspiring video and we matter
When I thought the growing number of human population is bad, the line "more humans may actually mean more progress" changed my mind. Thank you Kurzgesagt!
Well, only if the additional humans are educated, healthy, and happy.
yes! When you have 1 billion people you have 1 Einstein, but when you have 8 billion you have 8 Einsteins! All kinds of problems have been fixed bc of that! We have no less than 19 cures for cancer. We are going to mars. We just did proof of concept on cold fusion! We can grow 100x as much food in the same space as 100 yrs ago. We are testing impulse drives. The future is amazing!
“Progress” got us into the mess that will kill us. More and quicker isn’t always better.
@@johnperic6860 doesn't stop me from losing faith in humanity every time I see people on tiktok
@@Artameful Thats called 'confirmation bias'
Imagine how many hearts and minds have been touched with despair &humility; wonder & hope because of Kurzgesagt.
And how that'll impact these countless future humans.
Thank you Kurzgesagt for playing your part in forming the bedrock our human story 😊
if peoples hearts touched, they are prolly dead
Just wow. I've been following this channel and have never ceased to be amazed by its flawless blend of beautiful animation, data visualization, and storytelling. As a designer, I think my dream job would be to work at Kurzgesagt.
Thought provoking video. Unfortunately the voters and politicians who most need to see it, never will.