"Failure of of humans on planet Earth to fulfill satisfactorily and faithfully their generalized information gathering and local problem-solving in support of eternal regeneration of Universe simply means death of this particular planetary installation of mind endowed humans. The failure of humans means the function must be performed by other phenomena capable of embracing and reliably serving the information agglomerating and problem-solving function. The enternal Universe show must go on."

Buckminster Fuller, 1983