The Far Future Iceberg Explained

very heavy topic and for me hard to understand, but very entertaining!

10:25 language in the year 22,000 "Rizz rizz rizz, 67 67 67 Ohio". "Ohio rizz rizz" "676767" "Rizz."

5:15 Dyson Spheres are a joke and don't make sense from a physics point of view, and no astronomer ever took them seriously. It started when Freeman Dyson wrote an article to make fun of CETI with the absurd concept he ended up being famous for (the irony), but science fiction took it seriously.

I love science slop in the nicest way possible I've seen this format so many times and there's totally higher effort content but this stuff is nice to listen to while eating or something

In the million to billion level there's a huge mistake about predictions of flora & fauna - the predoctions are all being based on current species & omitting evolution.

Over that much time, species will adapt with the changes in the environment & making predictions about everything's extinction isn't possible. That said also, yes - all soecies could die if all hit deadends but only a huge quick catastrophe could kill a lot (though life survived the Permian & the dino asteroid) but likely not all.

We might have plenty of time, but I only have about 1.2 billion seconds left.

I love the setting for the Numenera RPG. It's set a 1000 million years in the future in what's called the Ninth World, which comes from the fact that people know of at least 8 times "the world ended" in one way or another in their past. Each time humanity or even the whole planet dissappeared and eventualy reappeared for any reason (in the fiction, one of the previous "worlds" was obliterated and some alien race eventually discovered the remains and made a fake planet to restart life as it was). The point of the setting is that in the ninth world there are vestiges of the previous worlds and along with a fairly new humanity (maybe a couple thousands years old) and tons of alien races, the world is REALLY weird . The book compels the narrator to be as wild and alien to the players as you can to sell the idea this is a completely uncomprehensible world.

Weird future prediction: Encountering a planet with life resembling the Proterozoic Eon, with single celled organisms visible to the naked eye. A distant planet discovery where future humans are not sure whether to laugh or consider it nightmare fuel.

19:00 Silicon-based technological intelligence is on track to supplant carbon-based biological evolution as the dominant form of intelligence on Earth.

Nuclear devastation will likely cause a lasting end to all life on the surface of Earth.

1:29
Admit it. It was ALL you could do to NOT mumble that into "Kardashians"

Love your videos, I've binged most of them at this point and don't plan on stopping till I've seen them all. Keep up the amazing work!

Was some of the videos here ai.??

Thank you so so much for this video, am addicted with this topic. Where this video ends, I hardly recommend THIS ONE from Melodysheep, for whom has not yet watched, it will enlighten the last few minutes of Farrell's vid much more (but will definitely INCREASE an existing existential crisis):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&t=201s
It is definitely worth watching, fascinating and astonishing, also very much from an aethetic, artistic point of view!
However, Farrell, it is great you focused on the Earth part of the far future, which is also so hard for us humans to imagine it is nearly unbearable.

if matter cannot be created or destroyed, how are we here? the universe spawned in with a new update and had stuff? lol

All this time watching your vids ik you looked like someone jarred the subway guy lol 😂

I'm a deeply strange little girl who finds the idea of the universe restarting all over again after billions of years of being 'dead' kind of nice, actually.

Ignoring 40k is criminal. The single most dark depressing and horrifying universe in ALL of fiction. Their is nothing of less value then a human life. Earth has no oceans. No wildlife. Trillions of people. State issued rations are made of dead humans. To travel anywhere you quite literally have to fly through hell. AI is outlawed. So instead they take unwilling people and lobotomize them to act as computers. Some of them only exist to open doors. If you even THINK about inventing something you are deemed a heretic and killed. Over 1000 citizens who are psykers are forced to feed their souls to the emperor to keep him from dying. The mere suggestion that humans should try to live peacefully with other species will get you executed. The imperium will completely destroy any planet no matter how many people are on it if it gets invaded by anything and it deemed not worth saving.

The type of shit that terrified me when I was 7:

ok so why am i stressing about homework

Are you really using Gemini AI search to research your videos bro. Come on.

Amazing video

are you using a cgi version of yourself for the intro? why do you move like a character from Mass Effect?

7:19 Nuclear semiotics is a very interesting concept

All the AI shlock really kills the mood ngl

Would've been worth including "all tomorrows" which tries to explain how humans would evolve in future.

i know this video was made a year ago from writing this comment but the theory that the universe will repeat over and over for however long is becoming a bit more popular but not for quantum tunneling.
it is instead about new research that suggests that the expansion of the universe is slowing down (this was in november 2025 so pretty recent!!!!) the original idea that the universe's expansion was accelerating formed because of the asumption that observed supernovae were dimmer due to being further away. this was false as younger supernovae are generally fainter and so when taking that into account, it is found that the expansion of the universe is not in fact accelerating!!! (remember that this is all just theory tho)
this also begs the question that if 'the big crunch' is real, there is a posibility that there were many, many more universes that came before this one!!!

30:53 there are still enemy races in the future like the Romulans and Kardashians 😂😅😂

29:28 when i look at the internet, i think its already happening

Brb joining Alcor Life Extension Foundation so I can freeze my body and awaken in the future to crack alt-human baddies

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Was gonna watch this til buddy started talking about star trek 😂😂

Dude! Hyperion spoilers! What the fuck? Also it’s “Shrike” pronounced like the bird.

Very late to this video. Great video, not sure how I missed it! I'm surprised "Last and First Men" didn't make it on the iceberg. It's a far "future-history" work by Olaf Stapledon from the 1930s that chronicles the progress and evolution of humans over the course of 2 billion years, which is recounted to the reader as a message from the future by the last humans. The 2020 film by Johann Johannson is stunning. It's black and white 35mm shots of the Slavic WWII "Spomenik" monuments that are insane futuristic brutalist structures that have been slowly forgotten and exist within nature, seemingly. It's nothing more than the footage, a narration by Tilda Swinton as the messenger from the future as the last humans face extinction, and a score by Johannson. Breathtaking. Highly recommend.

In million years can happen alot of things for human history!
Looking at how society and tech progress we can expect government changed from real people to full control by AI, cold and emotionless machine will do work any better than a greedy human that spreads corruption and evil when getting into high position of any society! And many times history knows that REALLY honest ones is rare, many of current political figures are dirty and mostly bad people, but AI... AI will never steal because it will not have any sort of bank account, AI will never lie, because there is no point of that to it to do so, AI will do and tell things right off, and in time, so never delays and days of wait! And this may happen in close 100 years in the future if we look at how it grows! But in million years there already can exist a race that fully made of AI, robots, not just metallic ones, but androids like Detroid Become Human, that look like us, and they refused to live with us humans because of our greedy dirty nature! Yeah! This point of view may really be a thing!
Or maybe we will afraid and humanity will never create a machine that thinks and acts like us, because of natural insticts of evil valley and etc. There is always two roads, but by now, we really teaching AI everything, because like there said "curiocity killed a cat"

I've always believed in the "Ever existing universe" theory. What you basically described at the end. No end without new beginning. Even if it's one we don't recognize as life.