Zamora Texts: the Year 9000: How We Got Here

This book is a genre-defying history of human societies covering 14,000 years. It offers history, current and near-future events, science and futurist fiction. Beginning in 5000 BCE, this book records and celebrates humanity’s survival to the year 9000 CE. We see our ancestors, ourselves and our posterity as we will be seen by the lecturer in the year 9000 CE. The story follows our social, political, military, scientific, and technological progress up to contemporary times, and concludes that all powerful societies in our past collapsed because of internal social decay. Then we learn of our near future, the tragic period of World War III and the subsequent Regression, where our modern democracies will collapse, together with the rest of the world order, leading to a 500-year dystopian period of conflict and chaos. Late in the third millennium, the post-Regression future begins with a period of Revival, which, we are told, will lead to a new utopian world, ruled by rational and effective democracies, significantly different from our current democracies. They will eschew ideology and conform to reality and the laws of nature. A Council on Global Affairs will unite many varied societies world-wide, finding workable balances between troublesome dichotomies such as individual liberty versus collective progress. It will also coordinate global activities including communications and trade. These advanced democracies will live in peace and stability, thanks to an eschatology based on the “God Hypothesis,” and to decision-making assistance from quantum computing, as well as a non-political global Peace Force. Technological progress in the next 6000 years of our future will include many things we now only imagine: climate control; clean, virtually free and limitless energy; a healthy balance of human population and Earth’s ecology and resources; space colonization and near-luminar space travel; and terraforming and advanced genetic engineering on Solar planets. The lecturer predicts that beyond the year 9000 we will diffuse humanity into nearby portions of our galaxy using near-luminal velocities, and believes that we will eventually master superluminal travel. He also believes his contemporaries may have already encountered evidence of very advanced alien civilizations.