Oyang Teng, Meghan Rouillard and Aaron Halevy finished off the eight-week class series with a look back at what had been encapsulated in the seven previous classes, plus a look forward to something new. Teng reviewed the nature of the space program which challenges our assumptions about the nature of our physical universe, as well as our assumptions about how to run the economic policies of nations — the future-driven nature of a credit system is what mankind needs to get him into space, where his conception of the physical universe will be further challenged. Rouillard then presented the unique characteristics of Russian and US cultures, being the Vernadskyian scientific tradition, and the US credit system: recognized even by Vernadsky to be the most efficient way to develop the Noosphere. She then looked at aspects of what the credit-system allows us to do, including Kennedy's investment tax-credit policy. We must think in terms of investing in infrastructure needed to support a creative mind, and we must have that top-down view in all policy-making. That which drives the creative individual, however, is his imagination and sense of immortality, which is strengthened by a classical culture, and this is what Meghan said to transition into what Halevy attempted to get across to the participants in his final section of the presentation. He stressed that the unique quality of the individual which is required for the economic solutions and science driver policies to bear physical fruits, is that identity which only impassioned artistic creativity, both its composition and its performance, can reflect — yet no art is higher than the science of politics.