No one knows. Perhaps the question might be worded differently. This old world of ours is going through a period of great change. It will soon be a thousands years older. It seems to be actually ripping itself apart at the seems, what, with climactic changes, earthquakes, brilliant full moons and melting polar ice caps.
Insignificant governments rise and fall, world powers descend into complacent decadence.
Technology has marked human culture and society forever. But in reality, not much has changed. If we go back to that first Christmas, we read of a small child born into the great Pax Romana - a peace that was ripping apart at the seams. There was the usual slew of earthquakes and melting ice caps, and the world was getting older then. Societies would rise and fall.