The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien. What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
The technical capacities to save our planet.