The day the change began...

At dawn the rabbit put his nose to the bars of his trap, thrust upward-and was free. From now on Man's dominance over the animal world was ended.
Before breakfast, a ten-year-old kid started fiddling around with graphs all by himself-and invented differential calculus. Across the nation the entire school system became suddenly obsolete.
By mid-afternoon Peter Corinth's office at the Institute for Advanced Study was humming with excitement. The first reports were in, and Corinth whistled as he thought about the implications. It was still too early for the world to realize what had happened. But tomorrow, Pete thought, tomorrow they'd really start hearing about it.
Ready or not, mankind was on its way to a stupendous mental binge. A new age was coming -more exciting and more intense-and nothing would ever be the same again.