In all things—except love—start with the exit strategy. Prepare for the ending. Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. - Kevin Kelly

Over the next three decades, scholars and fans, aided by computational algorithms, will knit together the books of the world into a single networked literature. A reader will be able to generate a social graph of an idea, or a timeline of a concept, or a networked map of influence for any notion in the library. We’ll come to understand that no work, no idea stands alone, but that all good, true, and beautiful things are ecosystems of intertwined parts and related entities, past and present.

Five years from now you will wish you had started today.

if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?