5:16PM
Lost in thought
Sunday, February 26, 2012 at 5:16PM Interesting client, desiring deep look ahead, meaning hundreds of years into the future. Fate of humanity, movement into galaxy, etc.
In a word - fun.
But making me a bit less interested in the blog or writing beyond the weekly column and GPS effort.
Reader Comments (4)
Right up my alley. The humans will not leave the planet in force till they understand, as they are starting to, that the world is finite.
All economic theory revolves around "kicking the can down the road". That is ending, the road that is. It's why there is no way out of the current economic mess as there is no place to punt to. We are up against a wall now.
The recognition of this will change the ball game and it will become apparent that up and out is the only way froward. Then we will start a determined effort to go to and exploit space, or rather it's resources, which are effectively infinite.
This will require the entire planet's resources and the fractured state it's in now will have to change with the various countries distinctiveness becoming less important than the progress of the entire human race. This part may take a while but I think it's within reach now.
I too applaud your "deep look ahead...hundreds of years" and appreciate & agree with PenGun's comments. I look forward to this adventure!
Chaos is a formidable obstacle to predicting the distant future. The assumption that the human race will survive its explosive growth is similarly problematical. Bentley Glass once showed how all species seem to follow a sort of bell curve from emergence to extinction. Specifying how, exactly, humans can overcome this seemingly universal tendency would be a logical chapter one for dreamscaping the far-off future.
Interesting topic.
Constants may be human nature and Maslow's hiearchy of needs. Technology always dynamic and science fiction writers get it right every now and then.