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44 ‘Impossible’MaterialUshering in the

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34 The Riddlesof Time

38 Searching forAntilia &Hyperborea

41 Lady Liberty &Mother Wisdom

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The mysteries of Iceland continue to mul-tiply. Recently, geologists looking for ge-

othermal power sources discovered a series ofseven, massive craters deep under water nearthe coastal city of Dalvik. Iceland has longbeen a site of immense seismic activity, so itwas first assumed the craters must be volcanicin origin, but closer examination has seemedto rule out natural causes.

Notably, in 2017 British scientists discov-ered a pattern of unexplained lines etched be-neath ice on the sea f loor near Iceland. Noone is proposing a connection with thecraters, but researchers haven’t ruled it out.Right now the go-to explanation for thecraters, is that they must be related toweapons testing in World War II, but there isno consensus, at least for now.

Their is no doubt that the Vikings weremasters of the sea. For 300 years, not only

did they rule the North Atlantic, they trav-eled as far as North America, exploring muchof the new world long before Europeansailors from further south. According to ac-

For more on lost secrets of the region,see Frank Joseph’s article in this issue on Hy-perborea and Antilla. A mythical land, firstmentioned by the ancient Greeks as the homeof the gods, Hyperborea was marked on someantique maps in the space we now call Ice-land. Some, including Nazi leaders, consid-ered Hyperborea roughly equivalent toAtlantis.

Sea cliffs and caves ofthe Vestmannaeyjar,

Iceland

New Seafloor Mysteriesoff Iceland

For more on lost secrets of the region

Hyperborea(Iceland)on Ortelius’1572 mapof Europe

counts, the main secrets of Viking domina-tion at sea were their longboats and their useof crystals to help mariners find the positionof the sun in the sky, even in cloudy weather.

Though no confirmed Viking navigationcrystal has ever been found, a sixteenth cen-tury English shipwreck did have one, indicat-ing the secret may have spread beyond theVikings. Questioning whether such a methodis even possible, mainstream scholars havelong doubted the story, but now a new studyis demonstrating that the legends may be trueafter all.

The use of crystal ‘sunstones’ allowed anavigator to split the sunlight into two beams,even in cloudy weather, and to see polarizedrings around the sun, pinpointing its posi-tion. In the paper, published in April, 2018in Royal Society Open Science, Hungarian re-searchers Dénes Száz and Gábor Horváthused computer simulations to track hypothet-ical Viking journeys from Norway to Iceland,Greenland, and even North America. The re-sult produced by cordierite crystal was 92.2to 100 percent accurate. Other crystals wereless accurate, but once again ancient technol-ogy has been shown to be far ahead of itstime.

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In our January/February issue(#127) we reported startling

news that recently discovered ev-idence in California proves thattool-making people were active inNorth America, 130 thousandyears ago, many millennia earlierthan is conventionally believed.As stunning as that discovery washowever, it did not, some believe,hold a candle to apparently mega-lithic ruins recently brought tolight in Montana.

“There are megaliths inMontana—dating to BEFORE thePleistocene (because during that pe-riod this area was buried under anice cap two miles thick). There-fore,” Atlantis Rising reader MarieHaynie wrote to us, “these dol-mens date to around 3 millionyears ago.” Many photos, it turnsout, can be found on the Internetof such locations which certainlylook megalithic, (the picturesshown here are among thoseavailable at, https://www.galactic-facets.com/megaliths-in-montana-usa.html, maintained byindependent Montana researchersJulie and Bill Ryder).

In 2017 Merlin Burrows, arespected radar search company,specializing in deep-scan surveyson both land and sea, launchedan extensive study of such prom-ising Montana locations.“Now we only know a fraction of

Industrial civilization onEarth is usually thought

of as a ‘human thing.’ Theassumption is: no humans,

no civilization—but are wesure? A couple of NASA astro-

the macro picture; but that isenough to understand the sites’importance,” says companyspokesman Andrew Barker. “Thearchaeologists will need manydecades to formulate the micropicture. We must expect with asite of this scale that this couldlast into the next century.” Al-ready the company claims tohave compiled an extensiveamount of data, but, so far, no re-port has been issued.

Many believe the stonestructures in Montana and else-where reveal forgotten ancienthuman activity which radicallycontradicts the officially main-tained academic narrative. Thereare, however, at least two differ-ent schools of thought over howto interpret the wealth of anom-alous evidence. On one hand,there are some, like Atlantis Risingcolumnist Michael Cremo (TheForbidden Archaeologist), who be-lieve that the presence of modernhumans, like us, can be found inthe fossil record, going back formillions of years into remotestantiquity. Cremo believes that ac-counts in the ancient Vedic scrip-tures of India, of breathtakinghuman antiquity, have, for over acentury and a half, been corrob-orated by many serious, albeitsuppressed, scientific studies (seehis book Forbidden Archaeology).

In contrast, other researchers, likeAtlantis Rising contributors SusanMartinez and Stephen Robbins(both Ph.D.’s), argue that the fos-sil record is much briefer than wehave been led to believe and thatthe vast eons of time, presentedas proven fact, are, in fact, justimmense exaggerations. Some ofthis research has recently comeunder serious scientific scrutiny.(See “Jurassic Soft Tissue” byRobbins, Atlantis Rising, #15, Sep-tember/October, 2017).

In Atlantis Rising #129(May/June, 2018) Steven Sorawrote about the “Megaliths ofCalabria,” providing evidence ofanomalous artifacts in southernItaly similar to those shown here.Whatever school of thought onour forgotten past one maychoose to consider, one thing, atleast, seems clear, the mainstreamnarrative of our very ancient pastis proving to be, at best, inade-quate and, at worst, a great decep-tion.

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physicists now say, the answer is‘no.’ In a new paper published bythe International Journal of Astrobi-ology, “The Silurian Hypothesis:Would it Be Possible to Detect anIndustrial Civilization in the Ge-ological Record?” Gavin A.Schmidt and Adam Frank take alook at the fossil records fromthe 50-million-year-old Paleoceneepic and ask if the massive

amounts of buried carbon whichwe find today could suggest thatan industrial civilization existedhere long before humans. Wecan’t rule it out, they believe.

Did some nonhumanspecies—as Dr. Who, the BritishTV series suggested—once evolveto the point of causing globalwarming? Schmidt and Frankwonder if we could tell, since allrecords of our own time, exceptmaybe fertilizer and plastic, maybe lost in a few million years.

While such questions mayseem plausible to materialisticallyminded academic science, those

of a more spiritual persuasion seea world where the hand of an in-telligent designer, far greater thanany species found locally, isclearly evident—in, for instance,the large deposits of carbonbased fuel that we exploit todayand which, some argue, is actu-ally a product of Earth’s geology,not organic decay.

Such a notion may be hardfor some to take seriously, butcertainly no more so than ‘indus-trially minded dinosaurs.” Formore on the “Silurian Hypothe-sis” see Michael Cremo’s columnon page 18.

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THE UNEXPLAINED

Why Did the Creator of Sherlock HolmesStake so Much on His Case for Little People?

Arthur Conan Doyle isknown mostly forbeing the author ofthe detective fiction

and adventures of SherlockHolmes. With a recent televisionseries, Elementary, not to mentionthe rebooted movie franchise,along with comics and books,Holmes has infiltrated every cor-ner of daily life. And Doyle—per-haps cursing in his grave—isknown for little else. One aspectof Doyle’s life that seems to gounnoticed is his final work, a se-ries of fantastical writings on hisdie-hard belief in fairies andchanneled spirits. With the sameHolmes-like investigation, the au-thor thoroughly came to as-tounding conclusions on theexistence of fairies—but why has-n’t it stood the test of time likehis other work? Let’s look closer.

Arthur Doyle grew up inthe Victorian age, with a fatherwho made a living as a cartoon-

ist. As a result of drinking, thenbouts of ‘madness,’ CharlesDoyle was sentenced to an asy-lum, where he lived most of hislife until a long line of epilepticepisodes claimed him. While atthe asylum, Charles spent mostof his time drawing. Many ofthose pictures were of fairies,among other pictures that somehave deemed ‘schizophrenic’ innature, or at the least, the draw-ings of a ‘mad’ person. ForDoyle, however, this might’vebeen his first contact with con-sidering the existence of an‘other’ world.

As Arthur Doyle grew up,his father’s illness was one driv-ing force behind his motivationto pursue a well-paid medical ca-reer in order to help support thefamily. After college and severalfalse starts, he eventually openedhis own practice. His first yeardid not result in a profit, forcinghim to borrow funds from his

PPHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES

Founded in 1927, Britain’s FairyInvestigation Society (FIS) was

established to collect reports andevidence of fairy sightings. In theyears since, the society has gonethrough a number of dissolutionsand reactivations. Currently, it ex-ists primarily online as a websitecalled, “The Fairyist.” Among itsmany artifacts is a photo, over acentury old, of a tiny shoe—saidto be a leprechaun’s—next to athimble. The shoe, as the storygoes, was given to scientists atHarvard University by Irish fairyenthusiast Dr. Edith Sommerville,while on a lecture tour in Amer-ica. Close examination, reportedthe Fairyist, confirmed the shoe“had tiny stitches and well-craftedeyelets, but no laces”, and “wasthought to be” made of mouseskin. The shoe,itself, has beenlost, and all thatremains is thephoto shownabove.

In AtlantisRising #106(July/August,2014) we toldyou about theBritish college professor who in-sisted that he had taken real pho-tos of fairies. Long believed byseers and occultists to be part ofthe subtle natural world—fairieswere not just imaginary, but real,said John Hyatt, 53, a lecturer atManchester’s Metropolitan Uni-versity. According to news ac-counts at the time, Hyattcaptured images of several of thetiny mythical creatures flittingabout the Rossendale Valley inLankashire.

Far from being just the stuffof children’s tales, fairies were ac-tual beings, albeit, he insisted,very different from the way theywere usually depicted. During thespring of 2014, Hyatt hosted apublic exhibition of his photo-

graphs taken over the previoustwo years in Lancaster. “TheRossendale Fairies” was, he said,his homage to the famous Cottin-gley Fairies claimed to be pho-tographed in 1917 by two Britishschool girls. The Cottingleyepisode caused a sensation, at-tracting the attention and sup-port of Arthur Conan Doyle,author of the Sherlock Holmesstories and a spiritualist (see ac-companying story). In 1997 FairyTale: A True Story, a major Holly-wood movie, was based on theepisode. Even though the storybecame a major cause for thespiritualist movement, the pic-tures were subsequently de-bunked, when it was shown thatthey were of cutouts from pub-lished pictures. Late in life, the

girls admitted thattheir photos had, in-deed, been fakedbut continued to in-sist they had actu-ally seen real fairies.

Unlike the Cot-tingly pictures, how-ever, professorHyatt said his im-ages were the real

deal. He had not, he said, evenseen the creatures on his filmuntil he had highly magnifiedthem, and then was shocked bywhat appeared. Not surprisingly,there was no shortage of skep-tics, but Hyatt found more than afew adults willing to believe thatmagical creatures such as those inhis photos may truly exist.

Hyatt’s show and exhibition,which became a viral Internet sen-sation have now been publishedonline. The Rossendale Fairies byJohn Hyatt can be downloadedfrom Liverpool’s John Moores Uni-versity at reseachonline.ljmu.ac.uk. For more details on theLeprechaun shoe, go tohttp://www.fairyist.com/fairy-sightings/leprechauns-shoe/

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• BY SCOTT CREIGHTON

CRIME SCENE

Evidence for Crimein the Great PyramidContinues to Mount

In 1765 the British consul to Al-giers, Nathaniel Davison, discov-ered a hidden chamber directlyabove the King’s Chamber of the

Great Pyramid of Giza. The entry tothis chamber was gained via a precari-ous climb using a rickety, improvisedladder at the south end of the pyramid’sGrand Gallery. It seems that the passageleading into this chamber had been ac-cessible since the pyramid’s construc-tion. The chamber’s dimensions weresimilar to those of the King’s Chamberdirectly below; although, unlike theKing’s Chamber, the compartmentDavison discovered was very cramped,being only around three feet in height. AsDavison explored this area, he found nothingbut a f loor buried deeply in bat dung—therewas no hidden sarcophagus, no treasure and,just like the rest of the pyramid, not a singleinscription was to be found. Little did Davi-son know at that time, but directly above thechamber that now bears his name, a furtherfour chambers awaited discovery.

Some seventy-two years after Davisonmade his discovery, British antiquarian,Colonel Richard William Howard Vyse, fol-lowing the intuition of his colleague, Gio-vanni Caviglia, blasted his way withgunpowder into four sealed compartmentsabove Davison’s Chamber, deep within theGreat Pyramid of Giza. These four chambers,which collectively came to be known as the‘Chambers of Construction,’ were approxi-mately the same dimensions as Davison’s.However, in one very important way, theywere quite different; for in the four ‘VyseChambers’ the wall and roof blocks, unlikethose in Davison’s and elsewhere in the pyra-mid, abounded with painted inscriptions and,significantly, the name of its supposedbuilder, Khufu.

The importance of these painted marksto Egyptology cannot be overstated, for theypresent the only empirical evidence that di-rectly connects the fourth-dynasty king,Khufu, to the Great Pyramid. They are Egyp-tology’s ‘Holy Grail’ of evidence supportingthe entire pyramid-as-tomb narrative. Prior tothe alleged discovery of these inscriptions theonly connection of Khufu to the pyramidthat Egyptology could claim was through thewritings of Herodotus (some 2,000 years afterthe pyramid’s supposed construction).

But almost from the moment ColonelVyse first presented these painted marks tothe world, questions have surrounded themand, in time, suspicions have grown—particu-larly around the king’s various names—thatthey had been fraudulently placed into thesefour chambers by Vyse and two of his closestassistants, Raven and Hill, and that Vyse didthis, if not for fortune, then probably forfame.

Notwithstanding the evidence hithertopresented in my published books on this mat-ter and of the evidence presented over theyears in the pages of Atlantis Rising Magazine

(f irst appearing in our July/August,2014, issue, #106), it seems that themore we analyze the painted, inscrip-tions from the ‘Vyse Chambers’, themore errors and anomalies we find inthem—all of which adds to the consid-erable body of evidence previously un-covered indicating a quite audacioushoax perpetrated within the Great Pyra-mid by these men in 1837. We will nowconsider a couple of new pieces of evi-dence that have only recently come tolight which further points to a fraudhaving been perpetrated in these cham-bers.

Odd NumbersAncient Egypt’s early hieratic letters

and numerals essentially consisted of cur-sively painted equivalents of the sculpted hi-eroglyphic signs, and, as such, their earlyorthography was not so far removed fromtheir counterpart sculpted signs, although, asthe millennia passed, the two forms would di-verge greatly from each other. One of the keydifferences between early hieratic script andtheir sculpted hieroglyphic equivalents is thathieratic script (like that allegedly discovered inthe ‘Vyse Chambers’) would always be written(and read) only from right-to-left—never fromleft-to-right. On the other hand, however,monumental, sculpted hieroglyphics could bewritten (and read) from left or right and theread f low of a particular line of hieroglyphictext would usually be indicated by the direc-tion some animal or person in the script wasfacing. Both forms would also be read fromtop-to-bottom.

In 1837 hieratic script was not widely un-derstood and most certainly would not havebeen known to Vyse, let alone understood byhim. Vyse, as we see from his published works,regarded the script in these chambers merelyas painted hieroglyphic quarry marks ratherthan painted hieratic quarry marks. This is to

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The long-debated ancient civilizationsof Atlantis and Lemuria are world-renowned. Far less so are their fellowhigh cultures, Antilia and Hyper-

borea. The former’s name derived from theLatin anterior, suggesting a place ‘before’ thewestern horizon. Its earliest written referencewas cited in a biography of Quintus Sertoriuswritten by the Roman historian Plutarch inhis Parallel Lives (Bíoi Parálleloi), 74 CE. Hedescribes how, nearly one-hundred-fifty yearsearlier, the Roman military commander re-turned after campaigning in Mauretania(northwest Africa) to his consulship in Spain,where he ‘met some sailors who had recentlycome back from the Atlantic islands, two in

number separated by a very narrow strait andlying ten thousand furlongs (twenty-hundred-twelve kilometers) from Africa. They enjoyedmoderate rains and long intervals of winds,which for the most part were soft, and pre-cipitate dew, so that the islands not only hada rich soil excellent for plowing and planting,but also produced a natural fruit that wasplentiful and wholesome enough to feed,without toil or trouble, a leisured folk.

“An air that is salubrious, owing to theclimate and the moderate changes in the sea-sons, prevails on the islands. The north andeast winds which blow out from our part ofthe world plunge into fathomless space and,owing to the distance, dissipate themselvesand lose their power before they reach the is-lands, while the south and west winds thatenvelop the islands sometimes bring in theirtrain soft and intermittent showers, but forthe most part cool them with moist breezesand gently nourish the soil. Therefore a firmbelief has made its way, even to the barbar-ians, that here are the Elysian Fields and theabode of the Blessed of which Homer sang.”

With the universal collapse of classicalcivilization, all knowledge of Antilia was lost.But the Renaissance and early voyages of dis-covery into the Atlantic Ocean rekindled in-terest in the island. The Portuguesearchbishop of Porto, together with six bish-ops and their parishioners, was said to haverediscovered Antilia and settled there to es-cape the Moorish conquest of Iberia. Aftertheir arrival, they supposedly founded thecities of Aira, Anhuib, Ansalli, Ansesseli, An-sodi, Ansolli, and Con at Antilia. Their storywas repeated in 1492 by the Nuremberg ge-ographer, Martin Behaim, on his globe of theearth, which featured an inscription to the ef-

turned aftf e(northwest Afrff ica) to his consulship in Spain,where he ‘met some sailors who had recentlycome back frff om the Atlantic islands, two in

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fect that the crew of a Spanish vessel sightedAntilia in 1414, while Portuguese sailors al-legedly landed there during the 1430s. Earlier,the Pizzigano Chart of 1424 included Antilia,which also appeared on the maps of the Ge-noese mapmaker Beccario, eleven years later.

The renowned Paul Toscanelli advisedChristopher Columbus that Antilia was theprincipal landmark for measuring the dis-tance between Lisbon and Zipangu (Japan).Later, Antilia was identified with an island in

the Azores. While San Miguel fairly matchesthe generalized distance from Morocco givenby Plutarch (eighteen hundred twenty-fivekilometers) for Antilia, its representation onRenaissance maps—in area, about the size ofPortugal—does not fit the Azores’ largest is-land. Moreover, Antilia was depicted as an al-most perfect rectangle, its long axis runningnorth–south, but with seven or eight trefoil

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Number 130 • ATLANTIS RISING 41

ANCIENT AMERICA


• BY ROBERT HIERONIMUS, Ph.D. & LAURA E. CORTNER

Where are your women?”That’s what our NativeAmerican leaders askedthe European settlers as

they gathered around the council fires tryingto negotiate peace terms. “How can we pos-sibly talk to you about peace if your womenaren’t here?” This profound question sumsup the enormity of the culture clash betweenthe hierarchical patriarchy of the Europeansand the cooperative and matrifocal practicespredominating on the northeastern coast ofthe Americas before the Europeans arrived.

The Europeans were just as shocked atthe question. “How can we possiblytrust the counsel of a woman ifwomen are cursed by the temptationof Eve?” they wondered. Europeansdid not trust the intellectual capacityof women, especially in deciding any-thing as important as war and peace.The Natives’ trust in their women waseven used as further justification bythe Europeans for their periodicpolicies of genocide against theNatives. Europeans were broughtup to believe that anyone who al-lowed themselves to be ruled bya woman, especially in spiritualmatters, must be allied with thedevil.

We looked at some of themothering aspects of the Statueof Liberty. The title of “Mother”is the highest honorific Indige-nous People can assign to anyone.First Nations People all over thiscontinent honored the strengthand wisdom of their women andvalued their life-giving powerswith respect. Among the Iro-quois or Haudenosaunee, theNative culture we are most fa-miliar with, women were as-sumed as absolutelynecessary for balance inall tribal relations. Con-trast these beliefs ofinclusiveness andrespect for theirelder women orClan Mothersas the wisestof coun-selors to thestatus ofmothers in theUnited Statestoday, whereinmothers areone of thegroups dis-c r im ina ted

against the most, especially single mothersand elderly widows.

Although the colonists borrowed exten-sively from the Native culture and governingpractices, they ignored this key element ofgender balance when constructing their newgovernment, leaving Euro-American womenstruggling for centuries to gain a seat at theliberty table. The United States governmenttoday lags the rest of the world in terms ofthe percentage of women in power. Only 19to 20 percent of the U.S. Congress is led bywomen, ranking the United States at number71 on a list of 190 countries comparing thepercentage of women in government aroundthe world today.

The Love HormoneWhen we heard that chemical differ-

ences between male and female brains werebeing used in the argument to include morewomen in positions of power, we were deter-mined to learn more. The more we learned,unfortunately, the more disappointed we be-came about finding a simple neurochemical

argument for gender parity. The popularpress is dangerously oversimplifying the

data on the actions of oxytocin on the hor-mone system, which is naturally produced inboth men and women; and reporting on thenew field of scientific inquiry around thishormone, has the tendency to stray into hy-perbole. This is especially true when translat-ing the data into conclusions aboutoxytocin’s role in learning to trust and bondand feel safe.

It was formerly believed that onlywomen used the hormone oxytocin becauseit had been identified as being responsible forthe physical and chemical changes related topregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding.When we sought out the leading researcheron oxytocin and social bonding, we learnedhow far the research has come in the last fewdecades. It is now clear that oxytocin is pro-duced equally in both genders during timesof stress to assist humans in reaching statesof calmness and connection. The curiouspoint is that the hormone estrogen increasesa woman’s ability to receive more oxytocinin times of stress than can men, and this isbeing extrapolated into social science studiesincluding those showing how men andwomen excel at different types of problem-solving.

Nevertheless, twentieth century neuro-chemistry is beginning to validate what Na-tive Americans practiced instinctively: menand women approach solutions differently,and the best results for all are gained whenboth genders are included in the decision-making process. When the sexes are balancedin the boardroom and in government, solu-tions that are more creative and productiveand long lasting are reached. As we learnedfrom cultural historian Riane Eisler, we needto expand the discussion beyond simply in-creasing the numbers of women on boardsof directors and in political office. It’s not somuch about adding nurturing policies intothe workplace to enable women to work andtend their families at the same time. It’s moreabout adding nurturing policies, into theworkplace so that all humans can work moreproductively together and care for their fam-ilies at the same time.

Companies in the United States are los-ing out by not having the input of women.No matter that more college graduates arewomen, the numbers reaching the top lead-ership positions remain in the single digits.Capable women drop out of the workforceall the time, even when they are on track forprestigious and inf luential executive posts,because they are making the decision to takecare of their families instead. Companies thatrealize this and have implemented policychanges to allow f lexibility in schedules, andexpectations, have discovered the results arethat both men and women feel encouragedto value their nurturing side, and everyonebenefits. Health improves, creativity in-creases, and the corporation’s profit margingoes up.

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POPULAR CULTURE• BY SUSAN B. MARTINEZ, Ph.D.

Technology always has consequences, re-marked Kirkpatrick Sale in RebelsAgainst the Future (1995, pp. 200, 273)where he takes on the everywhere-

ness of technology; it’s the “the water weswim in.” Tracking the trends since Sale’s1995 “Luddite” manifesto, we find pushback-ers of all stripes coming out of the wood-work: e-burnouts, recovering e-addicts,contrarians, retros, as well as stern critics ofthe digital divide. Do human beings reallywant to be “upgraded” by the masters of in-novation?

When the journalist Edward Bellamynovelized his fantasy of the future in 1888(Looking Backward), he optimistically envi-sioned technology being used for the greatergood in a setting of utopian pragmatism.When it rained, for instance, canopies wereinstantly lowered over the streets, replacingthe need for individual umbrellas. Althoughwe are still carrying our own personal umbrel-las, the “canopy” offered today is actuallymuch more impressive. Between genetics,nanotechnology and robotics (GNR), we willpresumably be able to: clean up the environ-ment; end world hunger and eliminatepoverty; curb physical disorders and extendlife; improve our memory and turn us intocognitive whizzes; and of course, find a curefor cancer.

But there are skeptics and “techno-phobes” among us or, as current conversationphrases it, neoLuddites. The term Ludditerefers 200+ years back to England’s earlystocking-weavers who launched a massive andangry rebellion (1811-1812) when new auto-mated equipment threw them out of work orcaused their wages to plummet.

Lately journalists have been comparingour own little backlash to the Luddite uproar,what with San Franciscans beating up robotsand riots against Uber in France. “Will therebe another Luddite uprising?” asks CliveThompson whose recent piece in the Smith-sonian on “the coming war with robots” gavelegs to the mounting discussion that touchesnot only on the huge problem of disemploy-ment, but on still broader issues, like qualityof life in the Age of Technology (“RageAgainst the Machines,” Smithsonian, Jan.-Feb.,2017, pp. 21).

Forecasters, reading the signs of the timeand memes, like Digital Divide and Limits toGrowth, anticipate the anti-tech attitude ex-panding dramatically in the years to come.“This is the big wrestling match of thetwenty-first century”—mused Jeremy Rifkin,social theorist and political advisor (Bailey,Ronald, http://reason.com/archives/2001/02/28/rebels-against-the-future, “Witnessingthe birth of the global anti-technology move-ment.”). Even Francis Collins, former head ofthe Human Genome Project, predicted“Major anti-technology movements will be ac-tive in the U.S. and elsewhere by 2030.” Re-

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cently, a 27-country survey found that, by amargin of 2 to 1, people think technology ismoving too fast and is ignoring the question-able “impact of social media, genetically mod-ified foods, and fracking. Technology fortechnology’s sake … is not a good thing”(Time, 1-29-18, pp. 18).

Bombs and phones, say other critics,may be getting smarter, but we are gettingdumber, attention span alarmingly shortenedfrom the New York minute to the Cyber Sec-ond. Constant e-mailing and instant-messag-ing, says one group of London psychiatrists,“might do more damage to your brain thansmoking pot” (Johnson, Steven, “E-mail Mak-ing You Crazy?”, Discover, Nov. 2005, pp. 22).Meanwhile, one Canadian researcher has con-cluded that “our obsessive use of informationtechnology is dumbing us down and encour-aging superficial and uncritical thinking …[as well as] leading to compulsive behavior”(Ferguson, Sue, “Computers Distract fromLearning,” Maclean’s June 6, 2005). Tech ad-dicts are fessing up: Casey F., for one, saysshe had to ditch her smartphone altogether:“If I have one, I will check it obsessively”(Gomez, Ricardo & Stacey Morrison. “Guest:The growing movement to break technology,”p. 6). Recovering addict, Blake S. talks abouthow he finally broke the spell of “days at-tached to a Blackberry from wake untilsleep.” The addiction has become so preva-lent (many Americans spending one-quarterof their time staring at their phones) that wenow have books with titles like How to BreakUp With Your Phone. College kids, taking outtheir earbuds long enough to discuss howtechnology dominates their lives, swarmacross campus “like giant schools of cyborgjellyfish” (Gregoire, Carolyn, A Field Guide toAnti-Technology Movements, Past and Present).

And blowback is getting more serious:In January, two of Apple’s major investorscalled for a probe into iPhone addictionamong young users. Background: Sevenmonths earlier, three doctors in Coloradohad gotten the ball rolling. Spearheaded by agroup called Parents Against UnderagedSmartphones, the pressure is on for Coloradostate lawmakers to ban the sale of smart-phones to anyone under the age of 13, on theplea that such devices are addictive and harm-ful in the hands of children. Whether or notthe ballot-measure ultimately succeeds, ob-servers think this initiative is just a warningshot in the legal backlash against techtyranny; others see it as the run-up to organ-ized resistance a la Occupy Silicon Valley.

There is a sense that much of today’stech is less about “facilitating” the way we livethan about shaping and controlling it. Even 48years ago in his bestseller Future Shock (p. 477),Alvin Toff ler gave a dim prognosis for “goalsset without the participation of those af-fected.” Instability and upheaval, he pre-dicted, will inevitably arise from “top-downtechnocracy.”

The term “Pushback” is the brainchildof Prof. Kirsten Foot and her colleagues at

the University of Washington who (ironically,in the Seattle birthplace of Microsoft) begantracking the phenomenon about a decadeago. Its roots, though, are older, going backto “Overshoot,” the concept christened inthe early 1970s by system dynamicists as partof a louder drumbeat sounding the alarmover the rapine of Mother Earth. There are“limits to growth,” and if we choose to ignorethem we will be party to our own demise. “Ifwe are to avoid catastrophe,” warns Israel’sYuval Harari, author of last year’s acclaimedHomo Deus (p. 20), we should think twice be-fore choosing “economic growth [over] eco-logical stability.”

Arguably, the viability of God Growthmaxed out many decades ago. It’s too late toundo the forces unleashed by the ongoing fic-tion that growth-equals-progress; but there’s

still time to come to our senses and opt forsteady-state economy. The CEO needsgrowth; but do we? Thanks to God Growth,our own Pandora’s Box is loaded with goodshailed as “improvements” and “innovation”and “safety features,” though often in nameonly, i.e., the sales pitch. As many consumershave found out the hard way, Pandora’s Boxis full of new products that may actually beinferior to their sturdy predecessor. The sameagenda produces so-called “breakthroughs”that could easily be unmasked as bold mar-keting ploys or fundraising hyperboles. “It’snot science, it’s hype,” commented one U ofIllinois scientist, criticizing the promise of lifeextension and even “immortality” that is dan-gled before us by AI (artificial intelligence)engineers (Klerkx, Greg, “The Immortals’Club,” NewScientist, April 9, 2005, p. 38).

Yet we remain remarkably vulnerable to

the market. “Has a bagless vacuum cleaner ac-tually enhanced your life?” asks British TVproducer David Cox (Haugen, David &Susan Musser, eds. Technology and Society, 2007,pp. 35, 38) who, watching the juggernaut of“cleverer stuff” pervade our lives—all of it“predicated on growth and continuing inno-vation”—has warned, “Over-reliance on tech-nology could be the death of us.”

Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will behard to close, warned Elon Musk, regarding theuse of AI in weapons manufacture (Time, 9-4-17, 6). Have we, indeed, cooked up a recipefor disaster? Hmm … Combine equalamounts of advanced technology, corporategreed, and blind consumerism. Mix well,cover, and simmer till done. The concoction,which the late great British diplomat RonaldHiggins (The Seventh Enemy, 1978, pp. 159,

171) has called “the central scandal of ourage,” also relies on a few secret ingredients:exploitation and ongoing poverty.

Innovation, Higgins reminds us, “oftenjust makes the rich richer.” Why, he asks,have we put stock in “constant economic ex-pansion [that only] enlarges the gulf betweenrich and poor?”

Technology and globalism, two sides ofthe same coin, have given us the ‘Digital Di-vide’, the term coined in 1996 to epitomizehow information technology ‘IT’ has widenedthe wealth gap. Though we brag about theprogress we’ve made, in some ways the worldis more exclusionary than ever; a single ex-ample: the poor often have to pay higher in-terest rates on credit cards, while the priceycomputer age has seriously disadvantaged the

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‘‘IMPOSSIBLE’MATERIALUshers in

the GRAPHENE Age

Ascientific revolution often isn’t rec-ognized by the science establish-ment when it first appears. Sciencejournals rejected the first papers

that announced success in making graphene. Only one atom thick, graphene is now

called the most remarkable substance everdiscovered. It could lend its name to the nextera. Our species had its stone age, bronze age,iron age, and now we’re entering a grapheneage.

Graphene’s extraordinary range of usescontinues to expand dramatically with newsfrom science laboratories around the world.It is the thinnest material ever measured, yetthe strongest. Graphene is as pliable as rubberand electrically conductive to an amazing de-gree.

Even the discoverers of a process formaking stable graphene didn’t know that itwould naturally ripple, bend, and buckle. Thebuckling creates a small but constant shiftingvoltage which may mean a future powersource.

Now, scientists, f inding that graphenecan turn light into action, may be replacingthe older idea of solar sails for fuel-free space-craft in the future.

A few months ago scientists announceda sponge-like material they made by fusingcrumpled sheets of graphene oxide. Recentlythey noticed that cutting graphene sponge

with a laser, propelled the material forward.Natural sunlight did the same. So in the vac-uum of space that tiny effect of photonscould build up enough thrust to move aspacecraft. That’s speculative, but grapheneis doing real work on Earth.

Graphene is made from ordinary graphite,the dark carbon material often combinedwith a ceramic to make what we call lead inpencils. Not long ago, scientists didn’t thinkit was possible to isolate single sheets ofgraphite and have a plane of carbon atomsstand on its own.

They did know that graphite atomsarrange themselves in a honeycomb pattern.Graphite is made up of such layers, stacked.The loose bonding between layers is why pen-cils leave markings on paper.

It sounds like an easy task to isolate anatom-thick layer, but it wasn’t; because theusual methods of reducing a material to thinlayers didn’t work with graphite. Those stan-dard heating processes wrecked the propertiesof thin layers of graphite, so graphene re-mained only a theoretical possibility—until anunusual breakthrough in England.

Peer Reviewer: ‘Impossible to Do’Nature magazine in 2004 rejected the ar-

ticle that the discoverers of graphene firstsent out. One peer reviewer’s reason for re-jection was that making it two-dimensional(thickness of only one atom) in a stable formis impossible. Another of Nature’s reviewerssaid that it was “not a sufficient scientific ad-vance.”

The reviewer probably regrets that dis-missive attitude; because when the paper wasfinally published scientists around the worldbegan thinking of uses for graphene and ex-periments to try.

The graphene discovery story was mostthoroughly told in Andre Geim’s lecture“Random Walk to Graphene,” now onYouTube; and in Sarah Lewis’ 2012 book TheRise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Searchfor Mastery; and by journalist John Colapintoin a New Yorker Annals of Innovation issue inDecember, 2014.

One main character is University ofManchester professor and specialist in thinmaterials, Andre Geim. He had been born inthe Soviet Union in 1958 and eventuallycame to be known as academically brilliant,possessing a nonchalant sense of humor anda habit of experimenting outside of his areaof expertise. In 1990 while scientists in theSoviet Union were impoverished, he wasdoing science on a shoestring, because therewas little in the way of tools or materials andless in funding. It was good training in beingresourceful. He ‘MacGyvered’ his way intobetter jobs in Europe.

Geim’s first brush with fame had beeninfamy. He was thrust into the spotlight in2000 after he levitated a live frog in an elec-tromagnetic field and sent a paper about itto the European Journal of Physics under thelighthearted title “Of Flying Frogs and Levit-rons.” He was then named winner of the IgNobel prize, which annually ridicules what

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