 Human beings started out primitive and ignorant, helpless. But thanks to our big brains, we developed technology and gradually we rose from a state of desperate survival struggle to our wonderful modern lives where we have conquered the rest of nature and dominated other species and broken through one frontier after another and our future in this myth is that someday we will not need nature at all. We will transcend materiality into the realm of spirit or into the realm of mind where we will move off into space and no longer need the earth or upload our consciousness into computers or merge with machines and become cyborgs or at least develop synthetic food and perfect health through nanotechnology and genetic engineering. And so this is one of the primary myths of civilization right now, the myth of progress or ascent or development. And it's gonna come through more and more precise control over matter and human beings.