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and now for some final thoughts on the
next big thing for most of human
civilization the pace of innovation has
been so slow that a generation might
pass before a discovery would influence
your life culture or the conduct of
Nations today and for a while now we've
come to expect major changes several
times within a decade especially among
the developed countries some are big and
obvious like the invention of the
telephone the car the airplane or the
computer some are big but unfold slowly
electrified cities and countrysides
access to Abundant supplies of food or
the countless ways we now communicate
with one another some of my favorite big
things are the accumulation of little
things like the unending role of
composite materials in our lives or the
steady growth and power of the internet
more often than not the next big thing
takes you by surprise you don't see it
coming you don't know or believe you
need it then the inevitable happens you
can't live without it a last category of
big thing comes from the discovery of
ideas or perspectives in
1968 Apollo 8 was the first spacecraft
to ever leave Earth for another
destination the moon astronauts on board
didn't land but looped around the
backside and snapped a photo of
earthrise over the barren lunar
landscape it took a voyage of the the
moon to see Earth for the first time
enlightened and empowered by that single
image we transform the way we care for
our planet which may just be the biggest
thing of them
all and that is the cosmic perspective
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