Here's what humanity may be like in 1,000 years

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Humans have changed dramatically in our 200,000 years of existence. We've gotten taller, we live longer, and we're smarter. We've built giant cities, domesticated animals and plants, and created and destroyed ecosystem.

And the technology we build is progressing at a blistering pace. And that pace keeps picking up.

Things like flying cars, sophisticated artificial intelligence, and quantum computers may emerge from science fiction into reality in less time than we think.

Now ASAP Science has partnered with National Geographic's new Breakthrough series to create this video imagining what the humanity might look like in 1,000 years.

It's hard to wrap the mind around how far advanced we'll be by then, but here are some of the most mind-blowing changes that might happen:

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