Life’s Future in the Cosmos | KurzweilAI

Life’s Future in the Cosmos | KurzweilAI: "Speaking at a Long Now Foundation seminar Monday night, Royal Society President and Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees said that because of our unique position in the history of the lightcone as the first (or one of the first) intelligent species, we tend to get a distorted view of history as a long, boring past during which nothing much happened, and then a very short period of rapidly accelerating change leading up to the present. In reality, however, the future of the Hubble volume is a lot longer than its past — the Sun isn’t yet even halfway through its life cycle, he pointed out."