Wonders continue:
everyone can converse with a planetary artificial intelligence which claims that it has a complete understanding of physics, has delineated every possible biochemistry and has determined the bounds of technological possibilities;
whales became extinct but were recreated and reintroduced;
lighted Lunar cities are visible from Earth, although weather control, atmosphere maintenance and energy transfers cause fluorescence that obscures most of the night sky;
gigabillions of artificial micro-organisms cleanse the environment;
the sea has aquaculture and bargetowns;
despite population pressure, the Survivor Yukiko is allowed to live alone on an atoll;
exploratory robots disclose that life is rare, that three species so far detected have palaeolithic technology and that another three have behavior that is either elaborately instinctive or expressive of very different kinds of mentality;
the orbiting Web detects many "'...anomalous radiation sources...'" (p. 473) hundreds of parsecs away and indecipherable informational signals from twenty three astrophysically unusual sources;
robotic explorers, traveling at near light speed, will reach the nearest such sources in a millennium and will transmit information that might reach the Solar System fifteen centuries later.
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