| Earth 2500 – humans dominate galaxy, develop space/time travelAfter rising from the ‘primordial soup’ to become today’s amazing humans, futurists ponder our next step. Hawking, Kurzweil, Drexel and others see technologies advancing exponentially in the coming centuries providing a future filled with happiness, affluence, and a greatly extended lifespan.
Of course, no one knows for sure how life will progress in 500 years, but if we look at what experts predict in the near future – biotech wonders repairing bodies in the 2010s, nanotech providing affluence for everyone in the 2020s, and 2030s miracles that suggest rebuilding bodies with ‘immortal’ materials – then blend in some creative thoughts, a future appears that seems more magical than real.
Imagine a world with only 2,000 families, each living on an estate the size of California with snow-capped mountains, deserts and beautiful coastlines. Now further imagine that ‘humanoid’ robots cater to our every whim and we can change the weather with voice commands (“let there be snow; rain; sunshine”), but here’s the best part: these estates are available free as land grants.
The catch: you’re on a newly-terraformed planet orbiting 16 Cygni, a double-star system seventy light-years from Earth. Hoping to encourage more people to become space-dwellers, officials offer deals like this with the following arrangement: “Stay one year in your new home, become active in global politics, and this beautiful nano-protected estate is yours forever”. |
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