Milliongenerations talk:Interview project summer 2009

Ideas

• Students (at schools) to interview people (e.g., senior citizens) with questions around milliongenerations to be developed. Intergenerational dialogue would add value.

• The exercise will bring about questions with what question to start, try a few things / leave it open to students. Could also include things like
  • "for how much longer do you think humans can live on earth?"
  • "how would you act if you lived for a million years?" or
  • imagine receiving a call from someone living in a million generations
  • as well as questions already posted on this site

Preference to stick to something that conveys the change of perspective in the assumption, but no dogma. Hope that robust interview questions will emerge.

• Could also result in a video montage of sequences of
  • short questions from different people, such as (examples!)
    • The sun provides energy for billions more years
    • Life on earth is expected to go on while the sun shines
    • Knowledges make our lives easier and only knowledge allows many of us to exist at the same time.
    • Imagine that what we know now is still known a million generations from now (and a lot more)
    • How can we create conditions that enable knowledge to be passed along all the time that life is possible?
    • Save the earth? The earth will stay!
  • contrasted with quotes from people who doubt civilization can continue much longer on earth
    • such as physicist Stephen Hawking (minute 7)
    • transhumanists like Nick Bostrom
  • and the realization that leaving the planet will mean a miserable ending for those left behind (i.e., almost everybody) and would mean that we give up a living space that can still support life for a very long time prematurely
  • quotes from those who show the beauty of the planet e.g., Carl Sagan or the Home movie