“Have we given them too much freedom? Have we given ourselves too little responsibility? Have we allowed them to imagine the wrong things when they looked from the present to the future, and to remember the wrong ones when they looked from the present to the past? Has our laxity and thoughtlessness produced a species that uses tools crudely and devises solutions hastily? Do they skate at length on ponds where the ice is too thin, all the while dreaming that the water beneath them is warm?” These were the thoughts of the aliens as they returned to earth after more than a hundred thousand years to check on their experiment, the humans.
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