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I've always found the commonplace to be uninteresting, which is why I spend much of my time in the future, or at least on creative takes of the present.
I hadn't really considered the likelihood of me living to see peak human population. I'll give that a 50/50 chance of that occurring roughly at the current estimated trajectory. My theory was that birthrates would plummet faster than forecasted simply because every technological increase tends to compete for our time that could be spent making people.
If peak human occurs in my lifetime, I expect it to be a temporary pause until technology pushes us out to other planets. Now that's something I wish I could have lived to see. Might get lucky and see boots on Mars at least.
Humanity has continually occupied low earth orbit for 21 years, and that's not nothing.
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