Merc armies.  Drones killing civilians.  Random acts of violence.  Mass starvation.  Heat waves.  Drug gangs.

Saturday picnics.  School homework assignments.  Digitised libraries.  Archaeological digs.

Hero worship.

Imaginary universes.

Political wrangling.

The future and the past look the same.

And yet…

How did we figure out the complicated task of accommodating seven billion growing into nine billion growing into…?

Expanding into the solar system.

Turning asteroids into traveling spaceships.

Captain America and Hello Kitty dolls in playrooms.

It was a challenge well worth remembering.

In the next chapter…