Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are likely to be immortality, happiness and divinity.

Yuval Noah Harari
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Many people, including the founding fathers of the United States, believed in the concept of progress. The question is whether we will continue to push forward or stand still.

Source: Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow

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