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The weak point is the narrow view of the historical depth of human knowledge and placing it within a span of about 50 years. A comma in human history. The paradox of knowledge and its preservation for generations lies in the knowledge infrastructure that decays and becomes more as humanity "advanced" in its preservation. In Mesopotamia, mountains of knowledge were cultivated on pottery (!) and these pottery are able to survive for thousands of years. Then they "advanced" to sheets of parchment, few of which survived. And of course, the age of paper that survived even less came. The great fire in the library of Alexandria about two thousand years ago comes to mind, considered, perhaps, among the great losses of today. As part of this observation: as we become more sophisticated and complex, awareness of the survival of human knowledge - decreases. Why? Perhaps because there is a voice above us that tells us, in the back of our consciousness, that the future is not important and less important than that, the memory. And perhaps: the pessimism inherent in our ability to survive, the fruit of the thoughts of the Cold War and nuclear weapons. And perhaps it is the climate that is turning on us by our own hands that forces us to think, primitively: the present, And in this we close a circle with the ancient man.