. But don’t ever expect mass emigration from Earth. Nowhere in our Solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest. It’s a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth's problems. There’s no ‘Planet B’. Indeed, space is an inherently hostile

ent here our thinking about the CogPrime architecture and the nature of general intelligence. In the words of Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to scale Everest: “Nothing Venture, Nothing Win.” Prehistory of the Book The writing of this book began in earnest in 2001, at which point it was informally referre