Man's mastery of the earth is a unique evolutionary event on this planet. We have multiplied our numbers with techniques never before possible. This limits the diversity of life. It is a threat to the diversity that created and nourishes us. The instincts to master, control, dominate and overrun the planet must soon be diverted to new dimensions or they will do great harm to us and life on this planet.
Finite resources limit freedom and diversity.
We instinctively understand that space, as the next but perhaps not final frontier, is where we must start looking to divert these instincts. Unfortunately instead of understanding that this is a long term process that we do not yet have the technology to seriously pursue we are exporting our plundering of the planet to our immediate neighborhood in space. In time the complexity of connections between individuals in our society will exceed the complexity of the human brain. The telephone, radio, television and the Internet are important embryonic steps in that direction. In the not too distant future the network connection between human beings will bypass the senses and connect directly to the nervous system.