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I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.