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“The truth is—we come from nowhere … and from everywhere. We come from the same laws of physics that create life across the cosmos. We are not special. We exist with or without God. We are the inevitable result of entropy. Life is not the point of the universe. Life is simply what the universe creates and reproduces in order to dissipate energy.” === The Seventh Kingdom … TED Talk by digital-culture writer Kevin Kelly. Prophesied by some of the earliest science-fiction writers, this new kingdom of life came with a twist. It was a kingdom of nonliving species. === “Half a billion years ago,” Edmond continued, “our planet experienced a sudden eruption of life—the Cambrian Explosion— === “What you are seeing here is a rare evolutionary process known as obligate endosymbiosis,” === ‘The price of greatness … is responsibility.’” === “May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”