Due to major cataclysms and cosmic events this planet has changed and continues to change as it hurtles through the universe and the life that manages to survive upon it has adapted over and over and will continue to adapt.
The future is unpredictable because our entire solar system is constantly heading into spaces beyond knowing, due to the universe's expansion process. There may come a time (billions of years from now) when the universe stops expanding and begins to contract. It may have done this thousands of times, for all we know.
I think of it as a living thing, breathing....
If you are thinking of adding a Flat Earth comment to this post. Do so at your own risk. I will ban you for a week, at least, depending on how far you push me.
Frances, why do you believe earth is a globe and please provide proofs of that. Or is it just because someone tells you it is so? Who told you the earth is a globe? Copernicus?