Hillel Schwartz is a poet, translator, case manager and independent scholar who has published widely on topics in cultural history. His most recent opus is Makingakio Noise from Babylon to the Big Bang and Beyond. During the 1990s he worked as Senior Fellow at the Millennium Institute on strengthening ties among groups using the turn of the millennium as a prompt for concerted action toward a more sustainable world. He contributed to the design of the most widely heralded theme pavilion ‘Planet of Visions’ at Expo 2000 in Hannover. With a PhD in European History and History of Religions from Yale, he has lectured at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and is currently a Visiting Scholar at UC San Diego.