Dyson expounds on what might happen in the next 50 years in biotech, neuroscience, climate change, space travel, and more.
Dyson is known for his most speculative ideas. He is the man for whom the Dyson sphere is named—a hypothetical structure, built by an alien civilization, that could capture most or all the energy emitted by a star (and leave a telltale excess of infrared light that could be picked up by our telescopes). Dyson was also one of the key players on Project Orion, which ran from 1958 to 1963 and which conceived of a spacecraft, powered by a series of controlled nuclear explosions, that could have potentially carried humans to Saturn by 1970.
We wanted to see what this bold and imaginative thinker might have to say about humanity’s next 50 years. So we asked him.
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