Phantom Menace

Two-thirds of the way through the series starter, the Singularity reaction had already begun. Explosive technological growth beyond human comprehension caught everyone up.

Now it's impossible to look out your window from day to day without feeling like a stranger in a strange land. It's air cars one day—soaring dragons the next. The vista is constantly being repainted by billions of citizen-scientists forever creating the world anew.

The Singularity reaction was deemed inevitable. It hardly m...