For sixty-six years the conventional wisdom has been that discovering extraterrestrial life would shake the world's religions to their foundations. They mostly disagree.

For most of the last century, the Wasatch Front was a place the country flew over. That era is ending. Across pro sports, a city built from a blank page, a canyon-mouth amphitheater, and aerospace, the pieces of a national market are arriving at once — in a five-year window, on a clock set by the 2034 Olympics.