We've Done A Miserable Job Of Preparing

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.

Already From Your Own Cells Scientists Can Grow Skin, Cartilage, Noses, Blood Vessels, Bladders And Windpipes. In The Future, Scientists Will Grow More Complex Organs, Like Livers And Kidneys. The Phrase 'organ Failure' Will Disappear.

If You Could Meet Your Grandkids As Elderly Citizens In The Year 2100 … You Would View Them As Being, Basically, Greek Gods… That's Where We're Headed.

A Hydrogen Bomb, For Me, Was Puny Compared To The Big Bang - The Creation Of The Universe. That's What I Really Wanted To Work On - The Nature Of The Universe Itself, And That's What I Do For A Living.

I Began To Realize Something - To Understand The Future You Have To Understand Physics. Physics Of The Last Century Gave Us Television, Radio, Microwaves, Gave Us The Internet, Lasers, Transistors, Computers - All Of That From Physics.