All that remains are mutated remnant strains of a deadly man-made biological weapon created during the last large world war. Fortunately, that was nearly 4 centuries ago, and since then an international peace treaty was signed. In the field of life sciences, genetic cloning has been perfected, and huge progress has been made to improve the human body. The exterior form of a present-day human is still largely similar to that of one a thousand years ago, but the internal organs have been tremendously strengthened through means of genetic engineering and the use of artificial tissue created from new materials. Human life expectancy has been extended to more than 5 centuries, and new developments may make life spans indefinite.
Space exploration is another area that has seen immense growth over the past few centuries.
70 percent of the human race now lives off-earth in large colonies or space stations. Mars is now a permanent colony of earth and it is already through its second century of terraforming. Similar efforts have also commenced on Venus. Rudimentary marine life forms have been discovered under the ice crust of the Jovian moon Europa, but mankind has yet to make contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial race. Although a new type of warp drive enables spaceships to theoretically travel at nearly 0.9 c, no true FTL propulsion or communication method has yet been developed.