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Ann Druyan

Carl Sagan, Steven Soter

Cosmos 

theUnited Statesand theSoviet Union

Cold War

within: the Human genome

World Wide Web, and, it

Hello, my name is Ann Druyan. When Carl Sagan, Steven Soter and I wrote the Cosmos television series in the late 1970s, a lot of things were different. Back then, the United States and the Soviet Union held the whole planet in a perpetual hostage crisis called the Cold War. The wealth and scientific ingenuity of our civilization was being squandered on a runaway arms race. They employed more than half the world scientists and infested the earth with 50,000 nuclear weapons.
So much has happened since then. The Cold War is history and science has made great strides. We've completed the spacecraft reconnaissance of the solar system, the preliminary mapping of the visible universe that surrounds us. And we've charted the universe within: the Human genome. When Cosmos was first broadcast, there was no World Wide Web, and, it was a different world.

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