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...grandfather's planetarium. First there's the building itself--a 10-story glass-walled cube with an 87-ft. aluminum sphere seemingly floating within it. Then there's the space around the sphere. While the old Hayden had only a handful of faded exhibitions to get visitors into a cosmic mood, the new planetarium is overstuffed with information. "We don't really expect anyone to get it all in one visit," says Tyson...
...tripod that supports it, and it's the underside of a sci-fi space pod. Stand back in a properly reflective mood, and it suggests the expanding bubble of creation itself. And maybe also that famous perisphere at the 1939 World's Fair--not all the associations here are cosmic...
...MAGAZINE How to get your teenage daughter off the phone: buy her a copy of Teen Digital Diva II (Activision/Girl Games; $25.99). This PC-only software lets her create, edit and print her own teen publication (or, if she prefers privacy, her own "cosmic journal" with password protection). It features everything you'd expect from the genre: do-it-yourself astrology, numerology, relationship quizzes, a "dream oracle" that always finds something positive to say about your nightmares, and a virtual makeover room that lets you change your image to your heart's content. You need never buy Cosmo again...
...where does this cosmic perspective leave us? Inspired? Depressed? As helpless in the face of technology's onslaught as ever...
This aura of inexorability has led some people to wax poetic about cosmic purpose. The Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, writing at midcentury, long before the Internet, nonetheless discerned a "thinking envelope of the earth" that he dubbed the "noosphere." This was the divinely ordained outcome of the two evolutions, and would lead to "Point Omega," where brotherly love would reign supreme...