Unfortunately unless advances in medical science develop at lightspeed pace, you, me and everyone reading this article will not live long enough to find out the answer to that. There is so much potential for major change in a thousand years, cast your mind back a millennium and the Normans were decades away from arriving on our shores.
Could future Britons be toiling under the yoke of alien invaders? If we managed to fast forward a thousand years would we find that climate change has completely upended life and the geography of the British Isles?
In an attempt to find the answers to such existential questions, I turned to the AI image generator NightCafe. See its predictions for cities such as London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield and more in our gallery below.
The prompts we set for the AI-tool were: what would the city look like in the year 3,000? And then in a second attempt: what would the city look like in a thousand years.
5. Brighton
When asked what Brighton would look like in a thousand years, NightCafe offered a bit of a different spin on the city. But the lighthouse-esque spire is very eye-catching. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
6. Edinburgh
Edinburgh of the Year 3000 could have quite the classic look, if this image generated by NightCafe proves to be correct. But at least Edinburgh Castle would appear to be still sanding strong | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
7. Edinburgh
NightCafe produced a similiar image when asked what Edinburgh would look like in a thousand years. It is yet another very classic look, but not exactly sure what the glowing lights in the Water of Leigh is supposed to be... | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
8. Leeds
NightCafe's vision for Leeds in the Year 3000 is curtainly futuristic. Does look more like a scene out of Independence Day but it sure is memorable | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe