Map of Earth c50,000 CE.
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A geological map? I don't think anyone can predict the future of political boundaries...
It wouldn't look all that different, if I'm reading your post right. This is 50 million years in the future, theoretically:
http://www.scotese.com/future.htm
So really, 48 thousand years in the future... a drier Mediterranean, possibly even an inland sea? It's probably more the climate and sea-level that will be different, rather than the general configuration of the continents.
http://www.scotese.com/future.htm
So really, 48 thousand years in the future... a drier Mediterranean, possibly even an inland sea? It's probably more the climate and sea-level that will be different, rather than the general configuration of the continents.
Be no need for borders; we'd be extinct by then. Geologically speaking, there would be little chance. Depending on what part of the Ice Age earth is in at the time (or if it had finally ended) only sea level would be different. There's no way to predict that with certainty, but given the pattern, there is a higher probability that the glaciers would expand again, so sea levels would be lower. It would probably looks like a map of Earth from 20k years ago. But this would just be an extrapolation, and I can't make any certainties.
There will be no political boundaries, because Earth will be the capital of the Grand Terran Empire.
Although an ice age would seriously hamper human development, by the next one, I think humans will not only survive, they will be at least on the moon.
Assuming we don't cause an Ice Age in 50 or so years.
Although an ice age would seriously hamper human development, by the next one, I think humans will not only survive, they will be at least on the moon.
Assuming we don't cause an Ice Age in 50 or so years.
Given 50,000 years, its quite possible there have been some human mega-engineering projects: an inland sea in Australia, a greened Sahara with rivers, etc. - or perhaps even putting in some new lands in convenient locations, ala L. Sprague De Camp's "Viagens."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Continent_Makers
Even in the near term, there are suggestions being made for technological fixed to the global warming problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering
Possibly at some point in the future we might decide a warmer, wetter climate than we have currently is ideal, which will effect shorelines, deserts, etc.
Or, with 50,000 years, we may have gone from global warming to a new ice age, and our cybernetic, sunlight-powered, full-environment-suited descendants simply don't care, since they can live happily on arctic ice as well as in jungle heat. (See Arthur Clarke, "Fountains of Paradise.")
And speaking of FoP, orbital beanstalks might in time grow to a virtual ring city, with a whole row of giant towers around the equator...
Bruce