Someone once posted a short science fiction story about the animals that became the dominant intelligent species on earth after humans. First it was raccoons, then it was crows, traveling by air balloon. I loved it, and I’ve searched many subsequent times to no avail.
The piece was posted on The Archdruid Report ( https://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com ) and was called "The Next Ten Billion Years". In a bit of an unconventional move, the author has closed down the blog and is now selling the previously free articles as ebooks. There are a lot of valuable perspectives in his writing, so it might very well be worth the purchase. Most of it is not in the "short story format" that yo…
Funny thing - I was thinking about this post a few years ago but also couldn't remember where I'd read it; I ended up writing a program to download the pages I'd visited since 2012 (using a heuristic to discard unlikely entries and to promote likely ones). That's probably the most effort I've gone through to find something on the Internet!