Intelligence sets the species apart.
As we cross the threshold to the next millennium, new forms of life and new conceptions of intelligence are taking shape around us, aided and abetted by digital technology. Software programs breeding in cyberspace hold the simultaneous promise and threat of a quasi-Cambrian explosion of digital life. At the other end of the spectrum, in the realm of what we once called outer space, growing evidence fuels a groundswell of interest in extraterrestrial affairs. It seems we may not be alone in the echo chamber of our own pondering for long. Meanwhile, the inner space of mind and the social space of interaction are being remapped.