I believe we are now entering the century of the Selfish Mind. Man has always been a creature restlessly seeking a reality beyond himself. We cannot know what a chimpanzee thinks about when he gazes at the stars, or what ideas a dolphin has about air. But we know what we think, and we have traveled so high in the atmosphere we cannot breathe and then beyond. We have placed humans on the Moon, sent our devices to other planets, and our signals reaching out to the universe, not to be received until after our extinction, if then.
The earliest hominids must have had complex ideas, but they were trapped inside their minds. Out of the desire to share those ideas with other minds, they devised symbols, sounds and speech. I see you, I see this, I think this, I want to tell you. Many species make sounds--at first to warn or to frighten, then to express more complex needs. We don't know if speech itself was a goal, because we cannot be sure if they had a conception of what that might be." The bone became our key to the physical domain. The transistor chip became our key to the digital domain.
Our people do everyting for the nearest progress and I think in the future we will not have some problems, even if we all live to be over 100 years old.
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Exercise 3. fill the gaps with a verb in the correct tense. one summer morning meeks (come) 1 from the west to new york to find his sister. she (be) 2 mrs. mary snyder, a widow, aged 52, who (live) 3 for a year in a treatment house in a crowded district. at her address somebody (tell) 4 him that mary (move) 5 away longer than a month before. no one (can / tell) 6 him her new address. on coming out of the house mr. meeks (address) 7 a policeman who (stand) 8 on the corner, and (explain) 9 his difficulty to him. "i (recently / make) 10 a lot of money and i'd like to help mary as soon as possible", he (add) 11 . the policeman (pull) 12 his moustache and (tell) 13 meeks about juggins. he (say) 14 that juggins (be) 15 the leader of a new school of detectives. "juggins (solve) 16 some very difficult cases. i (take) 17 you to him", the policeman said. 24 "if i (find) 18 your sister, you (pay) 19 me two hundred dollars. i (try) 20 to solve your case. the disappearance of people in the city is the most interesting problem i (ever / work at) 21 ; ", (say) 22 the famous detective, (rise) 23 and (put on) 24 his hat. in fifteen minutes juggins (return) 25 holding a little piece of paper with mary's new address. after meeks (pay) 26 his bill, he (ask) 27 the detective to explain what he (do) 28 .