I was reading an email from a reader and they asked me about my vision of the future. Our species is about to split as it did long ago. In the near future, there will be those that stay behind on earth and live out their lives here and take their chances. There will be people that venture out to the solar system first and then out to the cosmos. As time goes on these people will share very little with earthlings other than the common ancestry and past history. It will take a while for any colony to reach anywhere near the population of earth. The groups that venture far from earth will be very tight knit tribes or clans. Those people will reach a point in which they no longer want to maintain contact with earth and see little value in doing so. These pioneers will mirror the behavior of early colonist on earth that came to the "new world". I am looking forward to the first human beings that live on other planets, space cities and anywhere else that they can call home. Best wishes to any of you reading this, that will be space colonists.