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.
13. Portsmouth
The Portsmouth of a thousand years in the future appears to have been radically altered by climate change in NightCafe's prediction - looking like the last sign of civilisation for quite some distance. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
14. Preston
Preston appears unrecognisable in NightCafe's vision of the city in the Year 3000. It also appears to have been gripped by a gothic revival as well. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
15. Preston
NightCafe's vision of Preston in a thousand years is quite the dark and gritty offering. Fans of Warcraft would probably feel quite at home here. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
16. Sheffield
Sheffield could look like this in the Year 3000, according to NightCafe. It does look like spikes on buildings are quite in vogue in the future. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
17. Sheffield
Sheffield appears much more densely packed in NightCafe's vision of the city in a thousand years. Would not want to have to climb that hill every day! | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe
18. Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury looks like a deleted scene from the Harry Potter films in NightCafe's vision of the Year 3000. | NightCafe Photo: NightCafe