When you compare computers to people the advantages are even more obvious.

· Computers do not have the instincts to fight which people seem to have.

· It takes only a few seconds to load a program into a computer but years to educate a human.

· When computers get out of date their information can be passed to new computers, but when people get old and die all their knowledge is lost.

For all these reasons computers will be more successful and important than life many thousands of years in the future. Computers, not people, might colonize the other planets and explore the Galaxy. Life will be left behind on Earth, as a treasured relic of where computers came from.

However it is possible that computers and life might merge to make a new, even more powerful form of intelligent being.