Prologue : from bioplastics to H. Sapiens 2.0 -- 1.-3,800 MYR, late Hadean : at the inorganic/organic interface -- 2.-3500 MYR, Archean : reading the most ancient texts and the future of living software -- 3.-500 MYR, Cambrian : the mirror world and the explosion of diversity -- How fast can evolution go and how diverse can it be? -- 4.-360 MYR, Carboniferous : the best substitute for petroleum is petroleum -- 5.-60 MYR, Paleocene : emergence of mammalian immune system -- Solving the health care crisis through genome engineering -- 6.-30,000 YR, Pleistocene Park : engineering extinct genomes -- 7.-10,000 YR, Neolithic : industrial revolutions -- The Agricultural Revolution and synthetic genomics -- The BioFab manifesto -- 8.-100 YR, Anthropocene : the thrid industrial revolution -- iGEM -- 9.-1 YR, Holocene : from personal genomes to immortal human components -- Epigenetic epilogue : +1 YR, the end of the beginning, Transhumanism, and the Panspermia Era -- Societal risks and countermeasures.
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