It was written in 1937 by Olaf Stapledon and proposed that an advanced civilisation with a huge demand for energy might sate that demand by building a sphere enclosing its home star.
America, having fought in Vietnam to stop China building a sphere of influence that excluded it, was driven by the war into opening to China and has since facilitated China's rise and that rise has been so successful that China now threatens to build a sphere of influence that excludes America.
A report by a group of experts from a variety of Nato countries for the organisation's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen (who is about to retire) says Russia's policy of "coercively building a sphere of exclusive interests in the post-Soviet space poses risks for the transatlantic community that are unprecedented since 1989".
In the frrst part of the contribution the technologies used in the building control sphere are decribed.
In Seattle, Amazon is building three glass spheres filled with trees, so that employees can "work and socialize in a more natural, park-like setting".
But Dr. Pernet noticed that these larvae, about one-hundredth of an inch long, were building thin flattened spheres around them.
As Dr Smalley puzzled over the tiny spheres, building paper models of them in his kitchen, he realised that their structure was a system of interlocking hexagons and pentagons: the same design as a football, or as the geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller in 1967.
Water molecules are shown as the cyan spheres, building hydrogen-bonded connection between the chromophore and the aqueous environment.
These objects, however, are more complex building blocks than spheres decorated with symmetrically arranged interaction sites.
Kenny Barron and Gary Bartz have been playing together for the last few years in Sphere, building a connection that encompasses most styles in jazz since the 40's.
