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Belief-like fear, or like love-is a profound and powerful force. It's one of the most powerful motivating forces in our universe. Belief has fundamentally shaped the course of world history all around us. Look no further than the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, to the Japanese pilots of the kamikaze attack waves and their belief in the divine wind-or to the forces that drove forward those who led the attacks on the Twin Towers in September of 2001. Look to the Stasi of Hitler's Third Reich, to the Gestapo, the secret state police of East Germany-to the dictators of the Cold War, Stalin and Mao in Communist Russia and China -or to the deep roots of belief that drive the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to this day.

Belief can give birth to movements that arise as a powerful wave sweeping over and wholly transforming communities, cultures and societies: the Indian fight for independence under the leadership of its first national revolutionary, Gandhi-the suffrage movement that gave women the right to vote or the equal rights movement unified and carried forth under Martin Luther King. Look to the 1960's sexual revolution, the end of South African Apartheid, or to the Arab Spring movements that erupted like wildfire, sweeping 'cross the world in 2010. Belief can fuel a singular vision to channel the collective drive of our most talented scientists and engineers, propelling their best efforts forward-pooling them together to harness the powers of the Sun itself, to demonstrate mass-energy equivalence in a single blinding flash that transformed the modern landscape of world history: the Manhattan Project's Trinity Test. Belief can make a reality of our very first footsteps on the Moon, only a few short years after Kennedy's impassioned call mobilized our collective will to beat the Soviets to that same goal-the Apollo missions. Belief can call us forwards, to rise up together as one. Belief can lead nations.

New experiments keep finding quantum processes at play in biological systems. With the advent of powerful new tools like femtosecond lasers and nanoscale precision positioning, life's quantum dance is finally coming into view.

An omnilinked world populated with intelligent artifacts will bring sweeping changes to virtually every facet of modern life-from science and education to industry and commerce-leaving no segment of society unaffected by its advance. How will civilization change in response to a world saturated with embedded intelligence? How can these technologies be best applied to improve the human condition? These issues will become increasingly important as advances in science and technology bring us closer to unveiling the mysteries of the mind.

Our mission in founding SolarCoin-to accelerate our societal transition from petroleum-dependent, war-scourged, scarcity economics to a renewable-energy based, peaceful, post-scarcity economy-is now shared with Elon Musk.

The future development of a robust economy in low-Earth orbit (LEO) and beyond calls for a currency capable of supporting both ground-to-orbit and orbit-to-orbit transactions. SolarCoin presents an ideal candidate through both its global humanitarian mission and international footprint in congruence with the virtually unlimited abundance of solar energy in orbit.