[ExI] Fwd: The logical culmination of human technological progress in the self-replicating space habitat?

[Damien Broderick]

>The logical culmination of human technological progress is the
>self-replicating space habitat.

With all due respect, this is about as persuasive as "The logical 
culmination of human technological progress is the flying car driven 
by a man in a silver lycra jumpsuit smoking a self-lighting cigarette."

Paul D. Fernhout should take a look at the chapters by, for example, 
Steve Harris, Robert Bradbury, Robin Hanson and George Zebrowski in 
YEAR MILLION. (Zebrowski, by the way, wrote at prize-winning length 
about self-replicating space habitats in 1979, in his novel 
MACROLIFE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrolife .)

Damien Broderick