Preface: Seeing the Forest

Chapter 1. Covenant [Food]
1.1 Autocatalytic Runaway
1.2 Changing Phase
1.3 Eat Your Heart Out
1.4 Seeds of the Future
1.5 The Food Factory
1.6 Future Tense

Chapter 2. Rebooting Reality [Labor]
2.1 Network Reactions
2.2 Birth of a Notion
2.3 The Prime Mover
2.4 The Synergetic Machine
2.5 Rebirth
2.6 In the Grip of a Metal Hand

Chapter 3. Dynamo [Resources]
3.1 The King’s Last Argument
3.2 Amalthea’s Recursive Horn
3.3 Trigger Effect
3.4 Money Matters
3.5 Some Assembly Required
3.6 Spirits from the Vasty Deep

Chapter 4. Sweat of the Sun God [Wealth]
4.1 Wolf in the Fold
4.2 See. Want. Take.
4.3 Weaving the Web
4.4 The Non-Elephant in the Living Room
4.5 Bright Lights, Big Cities
4.6 The Price of Life

Chapter 5. Economic War [Poverty]
5.1 Insolubles
5.2 The Properties of Property
5.3 Swimming with Barracuda
5.4 Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night
5.5 The Skew
5.6 Utopia Dead Ahead

Chapter 6. Shoulders of Giants [Thought]
6.1 The Very Pulse of the Machine
6.2 Organon
6.3 A Microscope Made of Numbers
6.4 Whirlpool of Conjecture
6.5 Running with Scissors
6.6 Wiring the World

Chapter 7. The How and the Why [Life]
7.1 Termite Swarm
7.2 Sparks of Life
7.3 Diversity and Density
7.4 Entelechy Shmentelechy
7.5 Life Is a Verb
7.6 Plasma Storm

Chapter 8. Faster than Life [The Future?]
8.1 The Day the Earth Stood Still
8.2 Golgotha
8.3 Running Up a Landslide
8.4 Crisis? What Crisis?
8.5 Shaping Our Old Course in a Country New
8.6 In a Dark Night with Anxious Love Inflamed

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