Life 3.0 - What's Your Kind of Benchmark?

"If we could get some kind of guarantee that we're not just going to go extinct in some stupid, self-inflicted mishap within my lifetime, I think that would already be a major success," he says. "We've had over a dozen really, really serious instances where we almost had nuclear war by mistake,. That does not counter the wise use of our tech." 'I feel we're sort of in this situation on Earth right now, we're in a redid- we're driving towards a cliff'