In an intellectual clash of galactic proportions, the biggest mystery in the Universe encounters the smartest girl from Earth.
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When we finally made First Contact, the aliens remained mysterious and aloof. Yet when we found out what they really came for, humanity experienced its second renaissance...
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Some people prognosticate, some people satirise their prognostications with a reductio ad absurdum. So what if the nine principles in Joi Ito’s and Jeff Howe’s Whiplash are applicable on all levels and push civilisation to the next level? Would it look like the Über-Shanzhai in “Life in the Superfast Lane?”
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What can happen in rural Zambia when a volunteer doctor for Médecins Sans Frontières takes his red-haired girlfriend with him, complete with her physics PhD and some decidedly advanced knowledge from a bleeding edge research lab? Especially as she volunteers to become a teacher, and shows the local kids how to make a biological quantum computer? Mayhem, destruction, doomsday or . . . something wonderful?
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