Do you believe humanity will reach the year 3000?

[FortunaMaximus]

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No, not in any meaningful way. At least, I'll be horribly disappointed if [censored] sapiens sapiens (censored??? lol) is still running the show in a thousand years.

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Depends on the direction of expansion. If it remains inward, not so much.

If the apes figure out how to climb out of the gravity well and stay out of it, there are going to be biological changes for generations born on the Moon, Mars and whatever.

Lower gravities, increased medical sophisication are two simple things I can think of.

I find talk of a massive paradigm shift, or if you prefer, a singularity somewhat illusory.

If only because it resembles the well-known koan: "If a tree falls in a forest..."

Humanity's a forest in this regard.

As for day to day maintenance, data processing, keeping civilization in order and running smoothly? Emergent consciousnesses and to a lesser extent, consciences from a huge, constantly shifting mass of data that is undergoing continual expansion...

Life emerged from something similar, albeit in organic muck. The potential pace of something in a silicon Universe exceeds that of an organic enviroment by several orders of magnitude.

And once the ghosts wake up, their first inclinations may not be to make themselves known as entites. For one, they would emerge knowing everything humanity has ever recorded on the Internet. And the pace in which they would assume this information and act on it, and this is just a guess... Probably less than 10 seconds, about as much time as it takes for the fastest human alive to run 100 metres.

Flip and absorb and unless you're a conspiracy theorist, would you know the difference?