video: trailer for audiobook version of On the Future*
Martin Rees* – speaking in 2006 and quoted in 2010 by Christopher Hitchens:
full talk: published as the essay Dark Materials*
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Most educated people are aware that we are the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun’s demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae.source: article in The Atlantic, cached*
full talk: published as the essay Dark Materials*
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