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notion of infinity, which makes humanity nothing exceptional, but merely people situated at a particular time and place in the infinite universe. People obviously prefer things to be well defined, well framed, limited in a way, in the image of their own minds. Those who ask themselves if it is possible that there is life on other planets are the best example of those limited minds, and we liked very much the comparison you made during one of your lectures, likening such people to frogs at the bottom of their own pond wondering whether there was life in other ponds.’ ‘You could very soon live in a genuine terrestrial paradise if only the technology that you have at your disposal today were made to serve human well-being, instead of serving violence, armies, or the personal noe er profit of a few. Science and technology can totally liberate humanity, not only from the problem of hunger in the world, but also from the obligation to work to live, since machines can quite easily look after the daily chores by themselves, thanks to automation. Already, in some of your most modern factories, where it used to take several hundred people to build one car, now only a single individual is needed to oversee a computer that commands and carries out all the car building operations. In the future, even that one person will be unnecessary. Workers’ unions are not happy about this because factories are in less and less need of personnel and are letting more and more workers go. This is not normal - these fantastic machines which do the work of 500 people should enable those 500 to really live, rather than enrich only one person, their boss. No individual should be in the service of another, nor work for anyone for a salary. Machines can easily do all the chores and take 156 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS Paradise on Earth