This TED Talk features scientist and author Max Tegmark, recorded live at TED-2018.

After 13.8 billion years of cosmic history, our universe has woken up and become aware of itself.

From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos

with telescopes, discovering something humbly. You know, we've discovered that our universe is vastly

grander that our ancestors imagined, and that life seems to be an almost imperceptibly small

perturbation on an otherwise dead universe. But we've also discovered something

inspiring, which is that the technology we're developing has the potential to help life flourish

like never before, not just for centuries, but for billions of years, and not just on Earth,

but throughout much of this amazing cosmos.

I think of the earliest life is life 1.0, because it's really dumb, like bacteria,

unable to learn anything during its lifetime.

I think of us humans as life 2.0, because we can learn, which be a nerdy geek speak,

might think of as installing new software into our brains,

like languages and job skills. Life 3.0, which can design not only its software but also its hardware,

of course, doesn't exist yet, but perhaps our technology has already made us Life 2.1,

with our artificial knees, pacemakers, and cochlear implants.

So let's take a closer look at our relationship with technology.

Okay?

As an example, the Apollo 11 Moon mission was both successful and inspiring,

showing that when we humans use technology wisely,

we can accomplish things that our ancestors could only dream of.

But there's an even more inspiring journey,

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