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For Most Of Human History, We Could Only Watch, Like Bystanders, The Beautiful Dance Of Nature. But Today, We Are On The Cusp Of An Epoch-making Transition, From Being Passive Observers Of Nature To Being Active Choreographers Of Nature. The Age Of Discovery In Science Is Coming To A Close, Opening Up An Age Of Mastery.

The Next Big Accelerator Might Be The Ilc In Japan, A Linear Collider Which Might Be Able To Probe The Boundaries Of String Theory. So We Physicists Have To Learn How To Engage The Public So That Taxpayers Money Is Used To Explore The Nature Of The Universe.

In The Future We'll Be Able To Mentally Contact Anybody We Want, See Whatever Image We Want. And When We Don't Like It, We'll Just Turn It Off.

The Reactors In Japan Are Stable In The Same Way That A Ticking Time Bomb Is Also Stable. It Wouldn't Take Much To Light The Fuse - A 6.6 Earthquake, Like What Happened Today In Japan, A Pipe Break, An Over-pressurized Containment Vessel - Anything Could Set It Off, In Which Case We Would Have Another Chernobyl, Three Times The Magnitude Of A Chernobyl Accident.

Science Is The Engine Of Prosperity. But You'd Never Know It, Listening To Some Of The Politicians. They're Lawyers And Businessmen, Not Scientists. Lawyers And Businessmen Massage Wealth; They Don't Create It.