
#808 - Dr David Kipping - Black Holes, Alien Civilisations & How The World Ends
Modern Wisdom
Intelligence and Technology Evolution
Intelligence and internal knowledge differ; being intelligent does not guarantee technology. Life on Earth started quickly, within 200-300 million years, while intelligent life took around 4-4.5 billion years to evolve. The Earth's habitability for complex life will last only about 900 million years, a timeframe close to the emergence of intelligence. This highlights the Earth's limited window for supporting intelligent life.
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