# Over a Time Span of 100 by Freeman Dyson > "Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans." > **— Freeman Dyson**, *Disturbing the Universe / later essay, attribution clue* Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Disturbing the Universe / later essay, attribution clue. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/MARS|MARS]] - **Article:** [[articles/Continuity Colonization, Ancestral Reconstruction, and the Archival Absorption of Biological Humanity|Continuity Colonization, Ancestral Reconstruction, and the Archival Absorption of Biological Humanity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Civilization|Machine Civilization]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Deep Time|Deep Time]] - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] - [[wiki/Project Silica|Project Silica]] - [[wiki/Synthetic DNA Data Storage|Synthetic DNA Data Storage]] - [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] - [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans." — Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe / later essay, attribution clue https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-freeman-dyson-time-span-100 ```