[ExI] OP-ED: The billionaire space race reflects a colonial mindset that fails to imagine a different world

[spike at rainier66.com]

…> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] OP-ED: The billionaire space race reflects a colonial mindset that fails to imagine a different world

 

 

 

>…Who exactly is there to enslave in space?

 

If Seven Of Nine is out there, I will buy her.  Granted my bride might not like the notion, but she may go along with it if we buy Commander Riker too.



>…These factors alone, not to mention the vastly increased importance of technical competence for survival, will make space colonies rather different than historical colonies…  Adrian

 

 

Well said Adrian.  This article is really about conflicting models of the future rather than specifically about space exploration.  It is worth thinking about: many hold to a model which (reasonably) suggests that growth on this planet really isn’t forever.  At some point population growth must slow and stop.  We currently quarrel over how that happens and how many people will be here when it does, but even ExI people need to think about it.

 

I picture a kind of Jetsons world where there is enough of everything and population growth is somehow solved.  Hope so.

 

spike

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20210826/04d57040/attachment.htm>