Future
Hefner states that the Epic is a dynamic story not a static once-and-for-all narrative myth.
Chaisson speaks of the future as uncertain, but possibly involving further human evolution and the exploration of space (before the Earth becomes uninhabitable in approximately 1 billion years).
John Stewart states that life on Earth is entering a new, intentionally driven, phase, requiring a new worldview to understand it. He summarizes the future arrow of evolution into four main areas:
- Intentional evolution
- Advancing evolution by organizing a cooperative global society
- Advancing evolution by enhancing evolvability
- The unique capacity of the evolutionary worldview to provide direction and purpose for humanity
Read more about this topic: Epic Of Evolution
Famous quotes containing the word future:
“The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction, the future of the American West now is both fabulous and factual.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“My future just passed.”
—George Marion, Jr. (1899–1968)
“Bobby read his future in women; his girls were omens, changes in the weather, and he’d sit all night in the Gentleman Loser waiting for the season to lay a new face down in front of him like a card.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)