Stage 7: Modern Wealth
Innovation
The evolution of guns, which gave anyone in their possession distant authority over the hydrogen bond network that we call life, occurred parallel to advancements of the printing press, fueling the first successful revolutions against top-down distribution systems of biological needs, creating the conditions ripe for a resurgence of democratic principles in Western civilization.
The instigators of two World Wars in the Twentieth Century each made the mistake of thinking that successes of industrial manufacturing would earn them the right to more land and more power.
Although machine guns, automobiles, submarines, tanks, and airplanes clashed across the planet, however, their efforts were complicated in WWI by influenza, and all efforts were halted in WWII by an atomic bomb.
Despite so much sacrifice for the sake of so many metal works to be deployed by combustion machines, that is, it seems to have been molecules of lighter atomic weight which ultimately affected the most hydrogen-bonded citizens to end our World Wars.
Much more of the science and history during the Twentieth Century confirms modern suspicions about the H bond theory.
As the Metal Age forged an Industrial Age, which built our Computer Age, then, it might have been possible to imagine that the Fortune 500 products most highly valued in our current markets- this persistent popularity of gadgets and vehicles made of tighter covalent bonds- that our economic moment disproves conclusions of the H bond theory.
Once life is defined as a hydrogen bond network, not as a machine but as a body of water, however, it becomes easier to recognize that the most successful companies in the world are, in fact, so highly valued because we can measure accurately their relative influence over the greatest quantity of hydrogen-bonded human bodies.
