# Cosmic View **Domain:** Education / Visual Scale **Doc Type:** Book Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Kees Boeke]], [[Powers of Ten]], [[Scalar Nesting]] --- ## Definition _Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps_ is Kees Boeke's 1957 book using successive changes of scale to connect an ordinary scene with astronomical and microscopic structures. ## Corpus Context The book is the direct conceptual ancestor of [[Powers of Ten]] and an important source for [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]'s scalar nesting. ## Relationships [[Kees Boeke]], [[Powers of Ten]], [[Scalar Nesting]] - **Edge source route:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] connects this topic to exact Annual Question passages promoted into the Simple Reminders archive. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “The history of human technological civilization is measured in centuries—and it may be only one or two more centuries before humans are overtaken or transcended by inorganic intelligence, which will then persist and continue to evolve for billions of years.” > **— Martin Rees**, *2016, Edge Annual Question: “”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees|Inorganic Intelligence Will Evolve for Billions of Years by Martin Rees]] > “Intelligent life forms must inevitably expand out from their planets of origin, and convert the entire universe into a biosphere.” > **— Frank Tipler**, *2004, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT'S YOUR LAW?”* [[reminders/Deep Time/Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler|Intelligent Life Must Convert the Universe Into a Biosphere by Frank Tipler]] > “But someday, "escaping the gravity well" will mean not that of Earth, but that of our star, and then humankind's ship will at last have...gone out.” > **— David Dalrymple**, *2009, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING?”* [[reminders/Space Survival/Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple|Someday the Gravity Well We Escape Will Be the Sun by David Dalrymple]]