dusk... or this is not the way the world ends...

"I've spent the weekend walking around in a daze wondering, what has happened to the great men and women that helped define the legacy of this place? And then last night I figured it out...you've grown old. Here, at the end of human history, we sit on the verge of a transformative time. Never have we lived longer, eaten better, worked less or possessed more things. We are more advanced than any species that has ever walked the earth, and now, with our promethean urge truly unleashed, we stand on the precipice of scientific marvels that will catapult us into the next millennium. Despite all this, evidence presented here suggests that most of you have never been more pessimistic for our future. You fear tomorrow. Throughout the day, the shock of this mindset has turned to disappointment and finally now to anger...the future of man is not one billion of us fighting over limited resources on a soon-to-be-dead planet, but one trillion human beings spanning an entire galaxy. The future of man is not here...it is out there...

-Reed Richards, in Fantastic Four #579