Prelude
Introduction

Part I: Physical Swarm

Chapter 1. Covenant [Food]

• Question: How do we change our food supply?
• Ideas: Autocatalysis and Phase Change.

Chapter 2. Rebooting Reality [Labor]

• Question: How do we change who does what?
• Ideas: Reaction Networks and Synergy.

Chapter 3. The Swarm [Materials]

• Question: How do we change our materials supply?
• Ideas: Closure and Stigmergy.

Chapter 4. Dynamo [Energy]

• Question: How do we change our energy supply?

Part II: Mental Swarm

Chapter 5. Sweat of the Sun God [Wealth]

• Question: How do we change who gets what?
• Ideas: Ecogenesis and Non-Linearity.

Chapter 6. Contending with Demons [Health]

• Question: How do we change our medicine?

Chapter 7. Sentenced To Love [Thought]

• Question: How do we change our mental resources?

Chapter 8. The How and the Why [Change]

• Question: How do we change?
• Idea: Autopoiesis.

Part III: Pattern Swarm

Chapter 9. Faster than Life [the Future?]

• Question: What are we becoming?
• Idea: Singularity.

Coda
Thanks
Glossary
Short Timeline
Long Timeline
Appendix
Notes