Esta é realmente a resposta de Daniel, e eu vou deletar se, se Daniel quiser postar. Nesse meio tempo, desde que eu tenho o livro Chocky, pensei em postar alguns detalhes.
Chocky descreve a si mesmo como:
I am an explorer, I mean scout, I mean missionary -- no, I mean teacher. I am here to teach things.
e faz um contato telepático com um garoto chamado Matthew. O livro leva à revelação de que Chocky pode ajudar os humanos a explorar um poder no universo descrito como xxxxx . Chocky faz um pouco de sermão:
'Yes. You have not done badly with electricity in a hundred years. And you did well with steam in quite a short time. But all that is so inefficient. And your oil engines are dirty, noisy, poisonous, and the cars you drive with them are barbarous, dangerous ...'
'Yes,' I interrupted. 'You mentioned that before, to Matthew. But we do have atomic power now.'
'Very crudely, yes. You are learning, slowly. But you still live in a finite, sun-based economy.'
'Sun-based?'
'Yes. Everything you are, and have, you owe to the radiations from your sun. Direct radiations you must have to keep your bodies alive, and to grow your food, and provide fresh-water; and they could continue to support you for millions of years. But to grow and expand intelligence needs power. It is true you have an elementary form of atomic power which you will no doubt improve. But that is almost your only investment for your future. Most of your power is being used to build machines to consume power faster and faster, while your sources of power remain finite. There can be only one end to that.'