"The aeroplane will never fly." -- Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907. And yet, one year later, in 1908, Orville and Wilbur Wright made over 200 flights across Europe. Fifty years later, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, is quoted saying, "Space travel is bunk.” two weeks before the launch of Sputnik in 1957. Now, in 2016, NASA is prepping for manned trips to Mars. History is replete with many self-important and so-called ‘experts’ who doubt the significance of the evolution of man’s technology and its uses. What does the more distant future look like? Will we have interstellar travel? How will we get there? In one-thousand years how will the history books explain how our civilization evolved past the lunacy of war, world hunger, and unrecoverable depletion of our planets resources? Looking back from the future how will they describe our transition from genocides, countries going bankrupt, dictatorships, and poverty? I would like to think ...