Part I: Physical Swarm

1. Covenant [Food]

1.1 Autocatalytic Runaway

1.2 Changing Phase

1.3 A Hungry World

1.4 Seeds of the Future

1.5 The Food Factory

1.6 The Later Middle Ages

2. Rebooting Reality [Labor]

2.1 Sweat of Thy Face

2.2 The Prime Mover

2.3 The Synergetic Machine

2.4 Rebirth

2.5 Critical Mass

2.6 In the Grip of the Metal Hand

3. The Swarm [Materials]

3.1 Insolubles

3.2 The King’s Last Argument

3.3 Amalthea’s Recursive Horn

3.4 Swimming with Barracuda

3.5 Wolf Children

3.6 Living with the Dead

4. Dynamo [Energy]

4.1 Trigger Effect

4.2 We’re All Cheapskates

4.3 Some Assembly Required

4.4 Knowledge Is Power

4.5 Two Islands, Two Futures

Part II: Mental Swarm

5. Sweat of the Sun God [Wealth]

5.1 Wolf in the Fold

5.2 Weaving the Web

5.3 The Non-Elephant in the Living Room

5.4 The Properties of Property

5.5 A Billion Coin Flips

5.6 After the Bunting

5.7 Utopia Dead Ahead

6. Contending with Demons [Health]

6.1 This You Cannot Cure

6.2 Avast, Ye Scurvy Dogs

6.3 The Universe’s Lethal Quiz

6.4 The Knowledge Game

6.5 A Microscope Made of Numbers

6.6 Whirlpool of Conjecture

6.7 A Plague of Ignorance

6.8 This You Can Cure

7. Sentenced To Love [Thought]

7.1 The Long Chain

7.2 End of Days

7.3 The Very Pulse of the Machine

7.4 Organon

7.5 Dying to Have a Baby

7.6 Changing Our Minds

7.7 Wiring the World

7.8 Liquefying Everything

8. The How and the Why [Change]

8.1 Sparks of Life

8.2 Life Is a Verb

8.3 Summing Up

8.4 The Invisible Nest

Part III: Pattern Swarm

9. Faster than Life [the Future?]

9.1 Golgotha

9.2 The Colossal Machine

9.3 Into the Wild

9.4 Waking Up...

9.5 ...In a Dark Night with Anxious Love Inflamed