united in a stronger bond than they have known before. Their separation has taught them how much they need one another. A third party, technology, is near at hand to counsel and to guide them in the ways of the real world, which both art and science sometimes forget while pursuing their attractive fantasies. Science and art have drifted apart in recent times because they were persuaded that they had incompatible interests. Francis Bacon and many others in the 16th century counseled scientists to avoid the "delicate learning" of the arts and to concentrate upon proper scientific goals like the conquest of nature.1 Artists, uninterested in conquering nature, withdrew into the isolation of their own sensibilities and looked disdainfully upon mundane science fiddling with its mirrors and test tubes. There both sides have stayed for the past few centuries: art keeping its soul pure and its hands clean while it searched among the clouds for something to do, while science and technology proceeded to rearrange the earth with little sense of form to guide their activities. Despite occasional attempts at reconciliation, the separation of science and art was so complete by the 20th century that C. P. Snow was able to define them accurately as two separate worlds.