Le Pire Futur jamais imaginé (All Tomorrows)

Overview

AlterHis presents All Tomorrows, C. M. Kösemen’s speculative-evolution saga: a billion-year history in which humanity spreads across the stars, is reshaped into grotesque forms, and eventually becomes almost unrecognizable.

The narrator’s running joke is that, however horrifying the creatures look, they are still human—and he keeps testing that claim with increasingly alarming examples.

From Mars to the Stars

As Earth becomes overcrowded and depleted, humanity colonizes Mars, then turns it into a polluted industrial workhorse. The Martians develop their own identity and eventually blockade Earth, triggering a devastating war that kills billions. Humanity’s proposed solution is, naturally, to make a new humanity: the genetically engineered “Star People.” They replace the old populations and go on to colonize the Solar System and then the galaxy.

For thousands of years, the Star People thrive. Their generation ships seed new worlds with custom-made humans, while advanced machines make life so comfortable that people barely need to work—or think. The narrator jokes that their main occupation may be polishing their enormous skulls. Then a dinosaur-like fossil is discovered on a distant planet, suggesting that someone has already manipulated life across the galaxy. The Star People prepare for the return of these mysterious creators with weapons capable of destroying solar systems.

Those weapons are no match for the Qu: ancient, fanatical aliens who view genetic modification as a sacrilege. They conquer humanity and spend millions of years reshaping people into animals, pets, and living tools. The result is a parade of “post-human” species, many as tragic as they are bizarre:

• Worm-like humans dig endlessly underground, while enormous Titan people briefly rebuild civilization before an ice age wipes them out.
• One human lineage is made into prey for another, turning their world into a perpetual hunt.
• Mantalopes retain human minds trapped in bodies built for singing and recording memories, and eventually lose their intelligence.
• Aquatic descendants become everything from eel-like pets to food stock—and later inspire civilizations that build living tools and even organic spaceships.
• Some humans are turned into conscious carpets and waste filters, while others become fragile giants eventually hunted by chickens that have evolved into ferocious predators. The narrator declares the chickens the universe’s most terrifying species.
• The “Tempters” have a grotesque reproductive system involving immobile female cones and male creatures reduced to servitude—until a comet ends their species.

The Qu eventually leave, but not every lineage is doomed. Some humans escaped into space before the invasion. Their descendants, the Spacers, adapt to zero gravity and propel themselves with jets of air from their bodies. The narrator’s euphemism is that humanity’s most direct heirs spend their time “farting” through space.

New Civilizations—and Another Catastrophe

Over millions of years, many post-human species evolve intelligence and rebuild civilizations. Snake-like descendants of the worms create dense cities; predators industrialize their former prey; and modular humans, once living mats, combine into cooperative societies. The underwater tool-breeders take the idea of “living technology” to its extreme, making nearly everything—from pipes to weapons—out of organisms.

The ruin hunters, meanwhile, race through the stages of civilization so quickly that they reach nuclear war within centuries. Their descendants become the Gravitals: machine beings who believe they alone are humanity’s legitimate heirs. After transferring their minds into metal bodies, they decide organic life is inferior and launch a galactic genocide. They extinguish stars with enormous sails, starving inhabited worlds of light and energy.

The Asteromorphs—descendants of the space-dwelling humans—have become enormously intelligent and technologically advanced, but initially keep to themselves. Eventually, they fight the Gravitals in a war that devastates the galaxy for millions of years. The Asteromorphs win, rebuild, and establish a third galactic empire. They create a new, spider-bodied humanity called Earthlings, who spread across the stars alongside their creators.

In time, these descendants encounter genuine alien life, make peace with it, and ultimately find and defeat the Qu. Yet even this almost godlike civilization does not last forever. Earth is rediscovered hundreds of millions of years later as an empty, uninhabitable world, and humanity eventually vanishes for reasons no one knows.

Central Question

The video closes on the story’s central question: What makes someone human—appearance, culture, values, or something else?

Its most memorable mix of horror and comedy ranges from the Qu’s monstrous experiments to the idea of chicken-dinosaurs and spacefaring humans powered by flatulence.

Personalities and Figures Mentioned

AlterHis (the narrator), C. M. Kösemen (the author of All Tomorrows), the Qu, and the various human and post-human species.