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Every year I search for an essay I once read. I think it may have been by Freeman Dyson, but I can't find anything by him in print and there's not much of his work online. Someone had gone to the trouble of typing the whole essay out. It contrasted H G Wells' thoughts on the future of humanity at the end of the Boer War

All this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one day in the unending succession of days, when beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and shall laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

with a poem written at the nuclear end of World War Two, by Robinson Jeffers

The human race / is bound to defile. / I've often noticed it. / Whatever / they can reach / or name, they'd shit / on the morning star / if they could reach... / A day will come / when the earth / will scratch herself / and smile / and rub off humanity.

What's different about my search this year is that I happened to find EARTH RAINBOW NETWORK - THE MEDITATION ROOM!

As you continue to breathe, you will feel this wellspring of love begin to fill you and spill over until you are washed, wave upon wave, with eternal bliss.

That rainbow background is just, like, so relaxing. I can totally feel the 'wellspring of love' washing me. Sick.

But seriously, which of the two writers had it right? Optimism or pessimism? Will the human race be around in another few million years? Can you think of the conclusion Dyson arrived at concerning the two authors? Can you find the original essay? Does anyone care? Anyone want to share their own vision of the distant future? Can I stop asking questions? Yes?