Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?
So it's possible that someday, by understanding a little bit more about how the world works, it will come back to help us in some other way that will be surprising.
How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.
The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward.
I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.