Pg. 47 "We are at a crossroads in human history (we've been there since the atomic bomb). Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. For the first time we possess the means for intentional or inadvertent self-destruction. We also have, I believe, the means for passing through this stage of technological adolescence into a long-lived, rich and fulfilling maturity for all the members of our species. But there is not much time to determine to which fork of the road we are committing our children and our future."At one point I said we have been led down the wrong paths before - hindering us from being further advances then the ones we currently have. Sooner or later we will knock and open a door, committing to a future and a destiny we would have rather left to children's fantasies. Without taking our lives into our hands with intelligence, patience, and knowledgeable understanding we will set ourselves on a course for chaos and ultimate destruction. The reason for this conclusion is the evidences of the several societies, civilizations, and species that have all gone by the wayside into our history books. Some even becoming folklore because of the lack of evidence.
Here we will begin our observation of a civilization, with the understanding that all matter is composed of some unseen-indefinable matter that begins life with an invisible force. This invisible force makes up quarks, quarks make up neutrons, protons, and electrons, and from there we have all elements of the universe. At a peculiar point in time, this world -- we'll call their planet Terranus-- comes to the point where I believe we find ourselves currently.
They can either continue on their current course; i.e. disintegration of their ecosystem, wars, pestilence, and divisions; or find a way to live peaceably. Let say - by some truly miraculous understanding - the Terranians come to realize the error in being divided and decide to unite. Putting aside their sociological differences in an attempt to focus, as a whole, on one goal: to no longer devour their environment, but to be completely independent from it. This is the beginning a society's biomechanical evolution.
