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FRANK
WHITE is the author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration
and Human Evolution, first published in 1987 and re-issued in
1998. A member of the Harvard College Class of 1966, Frank graduated
magna cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He attended
Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning an MPhil
in 1969. He is the author or co-author of five additional books
on space exploration and the future, including The SETI Factor,
Decision: Earth, Think About Space and March of the Millennia
(both with Isaac Asimov), and The Ice Chronicles (with Paul
Mayewski). He also contributed chapters on The Overview Effect
to two recently published books on space exploration, Return
to the Moon and Beyond Earth. Frank has spoken at numerous conferences.
In 1988, he delivered the keynote address at the International
Space Development Conference in Denver. In 1989, he spoke at
George Washington University to mark the 20th anniversary of
the Apollo 11 moon landing. In 2006, the Space Tourism Society
awarded Frank a “Certificate of Special Recognition.” He also
delivered the keynote address at the first Overview Effect Conference
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The
Overview Effect is a message from the universe to humanity.
The message is that the Earth, when seen from orbit or the
moon, is a whole system, where borders and boundaries disappear,
and everything is interconnected. Our planet is a tiny spaceship
in an enormous universe, which is itself a whole system, of
which we are an important part.
This
declaration of our intention to found the Overview Institute
is also a “Declaration of Interdependence” with the Earth
and with the cosmos. For us, it represents an understanding
that we must now become Overviewers, those who have heard
the message, want to understand it fully, and manifest its
implications in our own lives.
-- Frank White
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