01 April 2024
Astrotopia. The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
... and privatization under the reigning economic strategy known as neoliberalism”. From ownership of extraterrestrial minerals to colonising and terraforming Mars, it’s all fair game for this author. Personally, I find the religious theme of the book...
February 2019
Reflections on the future human condition
... escape this. Exploiting the mineral resources of an asteroid (even to refuel spacecraft dedicated to space exploration) and terraforming Mars are presented as ways of transforming humanity into a ‘multi-planet’ species; and indeed they are. But this...
01 October 2019
On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
... Stephen Hawking: “We’ve got to solve these problems here”, he says. “Coping with climate change [is] a doddle compared with terraforming Mars”. And on that he might be right!
