ted | the future is looking back 200 years,
because next week is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth.
And it's the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of Species."
And Darwin, of course, argued that evolution is a natural state.
It is a natural state in everything that is alive, including hominids.
There have actually been 22 species of hominids
that have been around, have evolved, have wandered in different places,
have gone extinct.
It is common for hominids to evolve.
And that's the reason why, as you look at the hominid fossil record,
erectus, and heidelbergensis, and floresiensis, and Neanderthals,
and Homo sapiens, all overlap.
The common state of affairs is to have overlapping versions of hominids,
not one.
17:08
And as you think of the implications of that,
here's a brief history of the universe.
The universe was created 13.7 billion years ago,
and then you created all the stars, and all the planets,
and all the galaxies, and all the Milky Ways.
And then you created Earth about 4.5 billion years ago,
and then you got life about four billion years ago,
and then you got hominids about 0.006 billion years ago,
and then you got our version of hominids about 0.0015 billion years ago.
Ta-dah!
Maybe the reason for thr creation of the universe,
and all the galaxies, and all the planets, and all the energy,
and all the dark energy, and all the rest of stuff
is to create what's in this room.
Maybe not.
That would be a mildly arrogant viewpoint.
(Laughter)
So, if that's not the purpose of the universe, then what's next?
18:07
I think what we're going to see is we're going to see a different species of hominid.
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis.
And I think this isn't 1,000 years out.
I think most of us are going to glance at it,
and our grandchildren are going to begin to live it.
And a Homo evolutis brings together these three trends
into a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control
over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.
And that, of course, would be the ultimate reboot.
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