3 thoughts on “The Human Settlement Of The Solar System”

    1. He did cover private space stations and manufacturing but not as thoroughly, probably because it is harder to report on for the moment.

      To get someplace you need a ride and a place to go. What happens there is up to the desires and imaginations of the people who want to go. Many of those businesses will fail too but not all of them.

      The problem with command economies is thinking a small group of people can foresee and plan the economy. A rational position is that we can’t anticipate everything the market will do or predict the future with great specificity. So not detailing every little thing isn’t a failure on Zimmerman’s part. It is just the reality of the future unfolding before us as people pursue their desires and entrepreneurs solve problems.

      The role of government should be to embrace the uncertainty while enabling the conditions for a space economy to grow on its own.

  1. It isn’t much of a prediction to say in 1998 that there would be a space renaissance in the next century but it was a great piece nonetheless.

    There is one simple trick to solve this if the wrong people gain power, bribery.

    It may look like woke was defeated with the election of Trump and his policies at the national level but everyone who lives in a blue state knows the Democrats have continued expanding their assault on our political system and the populace. And don’t forget, when they say it was Woke 1.0 it is a promise to release Woke 2.0 with all the added ai features.

    The will use the Magical Computer tactic. We didn’t censor you, the ai did. We didn’t decide you can’t use banks, the ai did. We didn’t determine you should be spied on, the ai did. Factchecks aren’t biased, the ai does them.

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