Preface; Part 1: Visions; 1. Choreographers of matter, life, and intelligence; Part 2: The Computer Revolution; 2. The invisible computer; 3. The intelligent planet; 4. Machines that think; 5. Beyond silicon; cyborgs and the ultimate computer; 6. Second thoughts: will humans become obsolute?; Part 3: The Biomolecular Revolution; 7. Personal DNA codes; 8. Conquering cancer - fixing our genes; 9. Molecular medicine and the mind/body link; 10. To live forever?; 11. Playing God: designer children and clones; 12. Second thoughts: brave new world?; Part 4: The Quantum Revolution; 13. The quantum future; 14. To reach for the stars; 15. Birth of a planetary civilization; 16. Children of the stars; Index