title: Encyclopedia of Rainbows Notebook Collection
author: Julie Seabrook Ream
description: JULIE SEABROOK REAM is an artist who never could pick a favorite color. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
zlib_text: **RAINBOWS END** To the Internet-based cognitive tools that are changing our
  lives — Wikipedia, Google, eBay, and the others of their kind, now and in the
  future
  
  **ACKNOWLEDGMENTS**
  
  I am grateful for the advice and help of:
  
  Jeff Allen, David Baxter, Ethan Bier, John Carroll, Randy Carver, Steven
  Cherry, Connie Fleenor, Robert Fleming, Peter Flynn, Mike Gannis, Harry
  Goldstein, Thomas Goodey, Barbara Gordon, Judith Greengard, Dipak Gupta,
  Patricia Hartman, Patrick Hillmeyer, Cherie Kushner, Sifang Lu, Sara Baase
  Mayers, Keith Mayers, Terry McGarry, Sean Peisert, William Rupp, Peter H.
  Salus, Mary Q. Smith, Charles Vestal, Joan D. Vinge, Gabriele Wienhausen, and
  William F. Wu.
  
  I am very grateful to James Frenkel for the wonderful job of editing he has
  done with this book. Jim and Tor Books have been very patient with me in the
  long process of creating _Rainbows End_.
  
  **Prologue**
  
   _ **Dumb Luck and Smart Thinking**_
  
  The first bit of dumb luck came disguised as a public embarrassme