Visual Artist Teams Up With Computational Geneticist to Imagine Humans 100,000 Years From Now
Speculative, natch
Homo sapiens have slowly evolved over thousands of millennia, but what happens when modern technology comes into play?
Visual artist, Nickolay Lamm of Pittsburgh, Pa., tried to answer that question. Interested in illustrating how humans would look like in 100,000 years, he asked science for the answers.
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No one knows what humans may look like in the next 100 years. Never mind a 100,000 years.