Transcript: We tend to associate technology with our high intelligence and our role as masters of this planet, but it’s worth bearing in mind that it’s possible to have intelligence without technology. Dolphins, orcas, and other marine mammals may be highly intelligent, but they do not have opposable thumbs and they will never build telescopes and wonder about their place in the universe. In terms of evolution of technology, we have accelerated the rate of complexity in life. Early life’s DNA only increased in its information storage capacity at a rate of about one bit per hundred years. That rate accelerated during the time of human DNA a hundred times to about one bit per year. Now with modern computers, technology, and information technology, we are creating a megabit per second on this planet. So we have accelerated the rate of information storage and information capacity on this planet enormously. We are obviously living in a time of exponential increase of information capacity. Whether this allows us to transcend our biological evolution, we do not know.