I thought this would be about the fact that all of us will miss the next thousand and million years and everything that will happen on earth during that time.

I thought this would be about the fact that all of us will miss the next thousand and million years and everything that will happen on earth during that time. I'm not at all as sad over missing most of contemporary culture as I am over missing what will happen beyond my life span. The technological marvels, the scientific advances, the development of new ways of looking at what life really means. The advent of new forms of life, perhaps alien or artificial, which is so unlikely to happen during the flash of time I get to spend here. In this perspective the article came across as very unimaginative and dull, but I suppose that's only me.