Science Fiction has historically made some pretty huge promises, in spite of dystopian warnings.  Today, Science itself is also caught red-handed making more promises than it can keep.  It has claimed that we'll soon understand consciousness by studying the brain, and, we'll conquer all disease by mapping the human genome.  Neither goal has been reached, and most of the investors have backed out of Genetics, which should illuminate things clearly--just by following the money, as it escapes.

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The Universe, vast and trackless, less full of things than nothings, spins and ripples and the ripples cross and re-cross and make the Space and Time that sparkle for animal eyes that watch; and the great creation knows it will die, and knew before it was ever born, but the deepest seed in the mind of the man thinks he will not, and in the end, who is right and who is wrong?