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.
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.
![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...](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/13/34/Edinburgh%20Plus%20Thousand.jpg.jpg?trim=128,0,0,0&crop=&width=512)
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... | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe
![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](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/13/57/Leeds%20Y3K.jpg.jpg?trim=23,0,105,0&crop=&width=512)
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 | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe
![In a dramatic contrast to the last vision of Leeds future, NightCafe generated this image when asked what the city will look like in a thousand years. It appears to have undergone quite the gothic revival.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/13/49/Leeds%20Plus%20Thousand.jpg.jpg?trim=107,0,21,0&crop=&width=512)
9. Leeds
In a dramatic contrast to the last vision of Leeds future, NightCafe generated this image when asked what the city will look like in a thousand years. It appears to have undergone quite the gothic revival. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe
![London will be a tad overrun by Big Ben style clock towers in the year 3000 according to this image from NightCafe.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/13/39/London%20Y3K.jpg.jpg?trim=45,0,83,0&crop=&width=512)
10. London
London will be a tad overrun by Big Ben style clock towers in the year 3000 according to this image from NightCafe. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe
![London looks far more sci-fi in NightCafe's prediction for Britain's capital in a thousand years. Plenty of skyscrapers still standing as well.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/14/30/London%20Plus%20Thousand.jpg.jpg?trim=128,0,0,0&crop=&width=512)
11. London
London looks far more sci-fi in NightCafe's prediction for Britain's capital in a thousand years. Plenty of skyscrapers still standing as well. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe
![Portsmouth looks like a city from a Star Wars movie in NightCafe's prediction for the Year 3000. It also appears to be well armed, against what - who can say?](https://www.thestar.co.uk/jpim-static/image/2024/06/12/14/22/Portsmouth%20Y3K.jpg.jpg?trim=61,0,67,0&crop=&width=512)
12. Portsmouth
Portsmouth looks like a city from a Star Wars movie in NightCafe's prediction for the Year 3000. It also appears to be well armed, against what - who can say? | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe