Marshall Thomas Savage (born 1955), is an advocate of space travel who wrote The Millennial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps and founded the Living Universe Foundation, which was designed to make plans for stellar exploration over the next 1,000 years.In his book are futurist inspirational quotes such as this:Teetering here on the fulcrum of destiny stands our own bemused species. The future of the universe hinges on what we do next.