What will humans look like in 1,000 years?

October 24, 2015  11:55

Humans will be very different creatures 1,000 years from now.

Climate change, artificial intelligence and genetic mutations are all set to transform our bodies in drastic ways, according to a recent video.

We could for instance, develop red eyes as our DNA mutates, and have darker skin as an evolutionary response to global warming.

The video, created by Canada-based AsapScience, describes a hypothetical scenario in which our bodies are part-human part-machine. 

'In the future nanobots - or tiny robots - will be suddenly integrated into our own bodies, enhancing our abilities,' it says 

'No longer will we be limited by own own physiology, but truly become a mixture of biology and machine on the inside.'

Meanwhile, designer babies will cause future generations to grow into intelligent, attractive and physically people.

'But while that will make us better smarter, stronger and better looking, such genetic similarity, or lack of human diversity, leaves room for a single new disease of the future, to wipe out the entire human race.'

As global warming takes hold, humans will also be skinnier and taller, it predicts, as this body shape is better able to dissipate heat.

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