If you have friends or family you'd like to get thinking about cosmology and the like, this might be a nice documentary to stir up curiosity. Despite clearly being aimed at a general audience, I thought this documentary -- including interviews of Tegmark and Bostrom --- did a surprisingly good job of talking about the beginning of the universe and our place in it:
Also, even though I've had all these thoughts before, it still makes me more emotionally motivated to live long enough to see scientific advances on these questions.
If you have friends or family you'd like to get thinking about cosmology and the like, this might be a nice documentary to stir up curiosity. Despite clearly being aimed at a general audience, I thought this documentary -- including interviews of Tegmark and Bostrom --- did a surprisingly good job of talking about the beginning of the universe and our place in it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyH2D4-tzfM
Also, even though I've had all these thoughts before, it still makes me more emotionally motivated to live long enough to see scientific advances on these questions.