I'm going to state, unequivacally, that the modern telecom revolution's potential is primarily authoritarian, even totalitarian.
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I wonder if we'll ever find a form of technological advancement that isn't, under present conditions.
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We need a simple kit where people can leave the Earth and survive and prosper elsewhere in a very very large galaxy. That is the "killer app" and no other. People must be able to leave. That helps, also, those who do not.
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Though I fear we'd be seeding the future of the same problem on a galactic scale.
Assuming we aren't wiped out by aliens first.
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the very very far future. The galaxy is very very very big. Leave that problem to our very remote descendants.
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