Collision of futures -- The molecular age -- Singularity -- Molecular building blocks -- What comes first and what does it mean for each of us? -- What comes next? Megatrends that could alter our lives -- Nanoecology revolution -- Reviving tropical islands -- Who's driving the molecular machine? -- Nature's time bombs -- Are we getting more or less vulnerable? -- Shaking up Tokyo and the globalized economy -- So, you're bored by doomsday? -- Elephant in the room of environmentalism -- Lost messages from ancient times -- Blueprints for a molecular defense -- Why go there? -- Tools for defusing time bombs -- Lessons from Tokyo : learning to predict the big one -- Long Valley Caldera defense : avoiding a dark age -- How to avert Armageddon : have an asteroid for lunch -- Getting from here to there -- Right questions -- Overcoming cultural amnesia -- Bypassing the road to hell -- Using open source -- Redesigning democracy for artificial intelligence -- Liberating each one of us.
