A young Peter Weyland gives a darkly inspirational TED Talk.

In 2023, almost an entire century before the incident in Alien (1979), and seven long decades before the events of Prometheus (2012), the entrepreneur, inventor, and founder of Weyland Corporation, Sir Peter Weyland, gives an influential talk at the annual 2023 TED conference. As Weyland lists humankind's major technological breakthroughs before a captivated audience, he lays out the company's ambitious plans for the future, stressing the apotheosis of man in his talk.—Nick Riganas