More of a fun/bait post, on popular delusions about what futuristic societies might be like https://quaslacrimas.wordpress.com/2016/12/27/technofuturist-bs-round-i/ …
no, if you read the post you'll see I don't think the same objections apply to colonization of our solar system
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(Although I do think cost is high enough that terrestrial remedies for overpopulation will likely always be better)
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That cost point could very easily shift if the Human Disease (I mean that positively) gets to access space resources.
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Not in the near term of course, but there may be a point when the majority of humankind lives on portable real estate.
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Possibly; but if they're already living residentially on artificial satellites, any motive to leave isn't demographic
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1. cheap passage to orbit 2. cheap prefab habitats 3. demographic safety valve neither as crazy as relativistic travel
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I double-checked, I'm looking again.
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