Conclusion: The Reality of the Mass Mind's Dreams - Terraforming the Cosmos (1,000 b.c. to 2300 a.d.)

Robert F. Service. "Quantum Computing Makes Solid Progress." Science, 30 Apr 1999: 722-723; Yu Y. Nakamura, A. Pashkin and J. S. Tsai. "Coherent control of macroscopic quantum states in a single-Cooper-pair box." Nature, 29 April 1999: 786-788; S. J. van Enk, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller. "Photonic Channels for Quantum Communication." Science, 9 Jan 1998: 205-208

Richard Borshay Lee. "The hunters: Scarce resources in the Kalahari." In Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, edited by James P. Spradley and David W. McCurdy. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1987: 192-207

Melvin Konner. The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982: 371

M.H. Bornstein, O.M. Haynes, L. Pascual, K.M. Painter, C. Galperín. "Play in two societies: pervasiveness of process, specificity of structure." Child Development, March-April, 1999: 317-31; L.E. Crandell, R.P. Hobson. "Individual differences in young children's IQ: a social-developmental perspective." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, March 1999: 455-64; L. Vedeler. "Dramatic play: a format for 'literate' language?" British Journal of Educational Psychology, June 1997 (Pt 2): 153-67.; Gordon M. Burghardt. Play Behavior in Animals. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1998; ISBN: Marc Bekoff and John Byers, editors. Animal Play, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

John Reader. Man On Earth. Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 1988: 93-94

Caleb Project. "The Gabbra of Kenya."www.grmi.org/~jhanna/obj15.htm, downloaded August 1999

John Reader. Man On Earth: 93

Paul Somerson. "I've Got A Server In My Pants." ZD Equip Magazine.www.zdnet.co.uk/athome/feature/serverinpants/welcome.html, downloaded August 1999; IBM. "The Personal Area Network Communicating body-to-body." www.ibm.com/stories/1996/11/pan_main.html, downloaded August 1999; IBM. "The Personal Area Network Are you ready for prosthetic memory?" www.ibm.com/stories/1996/11/pan_side4.html, downloaded August 1999; Steve Mann. "`Smart' Clothing." www.wearcam.org, downloaded August 1999

Alexander Chislenko. Personal communication. December 1996.

Richard Dawkins. The Selfish Gene.

In a sense, these sorters are all Charles Darwin's pickers and choosers - his natural selectors. Yet they add to Darwin's insights some harsh realities. Not all selectors are elements of the exterior environment. The inner-judges, in particular, are inside our biology. Why? Because individuals are parts of a larger survival machine. And just as individuals compete, so do the groups of which we are a part. Groups compete not only with their might, but with their smarts. Each of us is a hypothesis in a larger mind. And unfortunately, not all hypotheses work out. Hence some of us are disabled by what previous centuries called a broken heart.

Fernand Braudel. The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: 397.

The friends the Montgolfiers sent skyward--Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent--drifted a full 5.5 miles on their maiden voyage through the air.

Fred Howard. Wilbur and Orville : A Biography of the Wright Brothers. New York: Dover Publications, 1998.

Computer modelers using simulations of complex adaptive systems have come to the same conclusion as that presented here. The computer modelers' terms for the properties which emerge from their simulations are "polarization" (squabbling) and "clustering" (rallying around common threads). See Robert Axelrod. "The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration." Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997; Bibb Latane, Andrzej Nowak and James H. Liu. "Measuring Emergent Social Phenomena: Dynamism, Polarization and Clustering as Order Parameters of Social Systems." Behavioral Science, 39, 1994: 1-24.

C. P. Collier, E. W. Wong, M. Belohradsky, F. M. Raymo, J. F. Stoddart, P. J. Kuekes,R. S. Williams, and J. R. Heath. "Electronically Configurable Molecular-Based Logic Gates." Science, 16 July 1999: 391-394; Robert F. Service. "Organic Molecule Rewires Chip Design." Science, 16 Jul 1999: 313-315; Maggie Fox. "Crystal Computer Chip Uses Chemistry For Speed." Reuters, Friday July 16, 1999, 11:54 AM ET.

Technically this particle froth is known as "vacuum energy density". See: Dr. Edward L. Wright - Ned Wright's Cosmology Tutorial. www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/glossary.html#VED downloaded August 1999.

An active galactic nucleus, as the black-hole-powered energy generator at the heart of a galaxy is known, pours out the power of 10.000.000.000.000 suns

Julian Krolik. Active Galactic Nuclei: From Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999; James Glanz. "Gamma Rays Open a View Down a Cosmic Gun Barrel." Science, 14 Nov 1997: 1225; Dennis Normile. "New Ground-Based Arrays to Probe Cosmic Powerhouses." Science, 30 April 1999: 734-735; Daniel W. Weedman. "Making Sense of Active Galaxies." Science, 16 October 1998: 423-424; Ethan J. Schreier, Alessandro Marconi, Chris Packham. "Evidence for A 20 Parsec Disk at the Nucleus of Centaurus A." The Astrophysical journal, June 1, 1998: 2; Space Telescope Science Institute. "Hubble Provides Multiple Views Of How To Feed A Black Hole." Posted May 15, 1998, oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1998/14/, downloaded August 1999; National Aeronautics And Space Administration. "'Old Faithful' Black Hole In Our Galaxy Ejects Mass Equal To An Asteroid At Fantastic Speeds." Posted January 9, 1998, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/01/980109074724.htm downloaded August 1999.

Louisiana State University. "Physicist Finds Out Why 'We Are Stardust...'" Posted June 25, 1999.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990625080416.htm, downloaded August 1999.

David Arnett and Grant Bazan. "Nucleosynthesis in Stars: Recent Developments." Science, 30 May 1997: 1359-1362; Linda Rowan. "Stellar Birth and Death." Science, 30 May 1997: 1315; University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign. "Simulation Reveals Very First Stars That Formed In The Universe." Posted March 25, 1999.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/03/990325054316.htm, downloaded August 1999

Werner R. Loewenstein. The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999: 24.