humanity 2.0
DESCRIPTION
Even if your grandparents had been science fiction writers, it would have been hard for them to predict how the evolution of technology played out to affect your life. You may have heard something like “Back when I was a kid, we didn’t have television”, from a sagely octogenarian when you were young. Now think about what we might be telling our great-grandchildren along the same vein.TRANSCRIPT
humanity 2.0how you are enabling the redefinition of
“life as we know it”
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Albert Einstein
m o u s en e u r o n
tech•nol•o•gythe application of scientific knowledge
for practical purposes
1,800,000 years
Scale
Scale
26 yds
4.37 light hours
4.37 light hours
0.47 miles4.37 light hours
sun
plutoearth
alphacentauri
4.39 ly
4,100 miles4.39 ly
sun
plutoearth
alphacentauri
betacentauri
397 light years
371,260 miles397 light years
sun
plutoearth
alphacentauri
sun
plutoearth
alphacentauri
betacentauri
24,824 light years
24,824 light years
145,927,879,516,789,000miles
Genes, Brains, and the Internet
770MB
2.5 BILLION YEARS
OF ALGAE
10TB
20TB
532PB
exponential growth in nature is unsustainable
POPQUIZ
m o u s en e u r o n
u n i v e r s e
thank you
Resources
• Google Maps Distance Calculator
• Wikipedia Astronomy Portal
• The Thousand Yard Model
• Brain + Universe
• Harvard Cell Biology Animation
• Millenium Simulation Fly-Through
• Mandelbrot Set Zoom