We Have The Media, Which Is Such

When I Was 16 Years Old, I Assembled A 2.3 Million Electron Volt Beta Particle Accelerator. I Went To Westinghouse, I Got 400 Pounds Of Translator Steel, 22 Miles Of Copper Wire, And I Assembled A 6-kilowatt, 2.3 Million Electron Accelerator In The Garage.

The Brain Weighs Only Three Pounds, Yet It Is The Most Complex Object In The Solar System.

To Understand The Difficulty Of Predicting The Next 100 Years, We Have To Appreciate The Difficulty That The People Of 1900 Had In Predicting The World Of 2000.

Futurism Today Is Led By Science-fiction Writers, By Sociologists, By Historians. Now, I Have Nothing Against Them. I'm Sure They Do Great Work. But They're Not Scientists. They're Clueless.

It's Humbling To Realise That The Developmental Gulf Between A Miniscule Ant Colony And Our Modern Human Civilisation Is Only A Tiny Fraction Of The Distance Between A Type 0 And A Type Iii Civilisation - A Factor Of 100 Billion Billion, In Fact. Yet We Have Such A Highly Regarded View Of Ourselves, We Believe A Type Iii Civilisation Would Find Us Irresistible And Would Rush To Make Contact With Us. The Truth Is, However, They May Be As Interested In Communicating With Humans As We Are Keen To Communicate With Ants.