Keith Reiss has been writing for decades, publishing scores of works, among them colorful stories of Africa, and the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic (Dreadnoughts of the Mara and Paths of History in the Northland, appearing in The Explorers Journal). Named Author of the Year by a major US aerospace institution, Reiss has long been prepared for the liberating exercise of his informed imagination through storytelling. His perspectives on modern technology's influence on humanity blossomed as he completed a distinguished university career with his PhD in the molecular physics of DNA at Duke Universit...