The future is never written...only penciled in. - Dan Simmons

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

“The Core knows what Teilhard de Chardin and other sentimentalists refused to acknowledge: evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution ‘succeeds’ if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.