Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Experience curves, large populations, and the long run

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If our civilization avoids catastrophe, will we generally be able to advance technology to close to physical limits, match or exceed observ...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Terrestrial solar energy could eventually support extremely large economies and populations

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If we are interested in whether Earth's civilization could ever reach various technological milestones, or long run economic output and...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

The High Frontier, space based solar power, and space manufacturing

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The High Frontier , published in 1976 by Gerard K O'Neill, lays out a vision of economically profitable space colonization in artifici...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Financial returns of interstellar colonization for the sedentary

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Summary: In thinking about the likelihood of interstellar colonization by our civilization, or possible alien civilizations, one question i...
Monday, September 17, 2012

Spreading happiness to the stars seems little harder than just spreading

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Imagine there are two advanced interstellar civilizations near one another who begin outward colonization around the same time, in an other...
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Can catch-up growth take us to the stars?

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Will our civilization ever be able to colonize the stars and avert  astronomical waste ? Will we create computer programs more intelligent ...