What do you think the world will be like in 2000 years?

Very cold. We are entering a period of global cooling.

Funny you asked this question. I was the local botannical gardens over the weekend and I asked my wife the same question. Since the Gardens are almost at sea level, and right on the shore, I figured that the future could hold many changes for the location. It could be below sea level, with kitesurfers right above me! Or it could be part of a vast plateau, miles from the now-distant shore.

As a geographer, I only spoke of physical geography. But the human question is just as interesting. I think that in 2000 years the population of earth will be slightly LESS than it is today. But not much less. Bacterial evolution will eventually lead to its complete resistance to antibiotics. I think this will help keep human populations down. Also, as countries advance, their birth rates fall.

No way it will last that long.

Letsrun post, 4010 CE

All the best runners where shoes. This is what everyone wore in ancient times and many Africans still wear them today. Lower extremity rocket boosters promote poor mechanics and lead to injury.

Just throwing out some bullshit here but:

I think much of the human population will have colonized space stations/other planets by that time. Technological advancements in space travel combined with increasingly undesirable living conditions on earth (overpopulation, war, frequent/large natural disasters due to climate changes, etc) will eventually lead to humans trying to find other places to live.

Although, it's also possible that one of those aforementioned "undesirable living conditions" could wipe out a large percentage of the human population, possibly delaying our technological advancements. I suppose it's also possible that the human race could be gone altogether by that time.

I guess I think the most likely scenario is that something will kill off a lot of humans by that time, but enough will be left over that we'll continue to advance our knowledge of space and space travel, eventually beginning to colonize space stations or even other planets by the year 4000.

Do any of you really see there still being 7+ billion people on this planet in say, 200 years? Call me a pessimist; I just don't see how it's possible.

Gone...we'll have colonized elsewhere in the galaxy out of necessity.

You can't be serious. The world will no longer exist. Al Gore and NBC say we're all going to burn to death because we drive cars.