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No Country for Young Men

Richard Fernandez hits on something that bothers me about the mindset of the country: No Country for Young Men

The big giveaway is we as a civilization don’t want to go to the planets any more, because the old don’t want to go anywhere. Imagine clambering into spaceships! The very idea gives us the shivers. […]

April 4th, 2014 | Tags: , , , | Category: politics, Settlement, Space Policy | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Detroit – the New Trantor

Isn’t this what the remaining denizens of Trantor did after the collapse of the empire in the original “Foundation” trilogy?

Farm to Save Detroit:

[O]ne day about a year and a half ago, [investment manager John Hantz] had a revelation. “We need scarcity,” he thought to himself as he drove past block after unoccupied block. […]

January 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Economics, PPC, Settlement, Useful Technology | Comments are closed

Liberty in Space?

Rand links to this interesting post at Cato Unbound on colonizing space and the “future of freedom”:

The critical question then becomes one of means, of how to escape not via politics but beyond it. Because there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve […]

April 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Economics, Settlement, Space Commerce, Space Technology | Comments are closed

McDonald’s on Mars

Commenter Wally expresses concern over the development of space:

Besides, who wants to go to McDonald’s Restaurant on Mars?

I do.

Not because I find the food appealing, but because of what the fact of a McDonald’s on Mars would say about the planet’s level of development. Shipping in from a distribution center on Earth […]

December 14th, 2005 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Economics, In the Shadow of Ares, Luddism, Space Commerce | One comment - (Comments are closed)