By Gerard K. O'Neill
ISBN-10: 0553110160
ISBN-13: 9780553110166
Whilst Princeton physicist Gerard ok. O'Neill released the 1st variation of excessive Frontier again within the mid Seventies (just 4 years after "Rocket Man," to be exact), he simply assumed that a few of us will be dwelling in orbit through now. Or because the house experiences Institute's George Friedman places it in a brand new essay for this 3rd variation of O'Neill's pioneering paintings, the L5 society's slogan "L5 in '95!" definitely wasn't touching on 2095.
In excessive Frontier, O'Neill had mapped out a simple, obviously attainable route to placing people into house completely and sustainably, utilizing Nineteen Seventies materiel and current-day Zubrin-style knowledge. yet O'Neill died in 1992 seeing humanity no towards satisfying his daring imaginative and prescient. Freeman Dyson issues out in a brand new advent to this version that during some ways we've really backslided, that the foreign area Station (and the present position of NASA) is "not a breakthrough at the street to the excessive Frontier. It's a huge step backward, a setback that may take many years to overcome."
yet O'Neill's notion of pursuing an inexhaustible strength provide (solar strength in area) and unending room to extend continues to be tantalizingly beautiful. The technological know-how has merely gotten more straightforward, and the ethical vital has purely develop into extra reported, with the planet's assets ever progressively squeezed and the hot wisdom mass-extinction occasion in the world is almost inevitable. (O'Neill calls the excessive Frontier the one probability to make human life--perhaps all lifestyles within the universe-- unkillable) The excessive Frontier is as intriguing a learn because it ever was once, and 6 new chapters offer context for the advances made within the 25 years seeing that O'Neill's unique manifesto.
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The world of 2000, then, will be poorer and hungrier than the world of today. This growth in population seems contradictory, if we recall that the Department's numbers reflect an optimistic assumption about population-control programs. There is no contradiction, though: the anticipated increase in numbers will be the result of a distorted age-structure of the populations in the poor nations. There, medical advances have come so recently that now most of the population is very young, well below childbearing age.
Climate, the locations of materials, and the special property of oceans for cheap transportation tend to cause wide separations, here on Earth, between agriculturalproducing areas and population centers. As a conse- quence, we become tied into interdependent networks thousands of miles in extent. Anyone who interrupts one of those networks by cutting off our sources of energy, of food, or of materials can hold a large population for ransom. We have examples of that sort of threat frequently, and the result is always the same: even at best, prices are driven up, production is slowed down, and almost everyone suffers.
An unlimited materials source, available without stealing, or killing, or polluting. Nothing in our solar system is truly unlimited, of course; no expansion can go on forever; but an exponential growth of wealth can be considered rationally if we can find the environment in which that growth can proceed for many hundreds of years; there is an enormous difference between sharp limits, forced on us within years or decades at 33 deep poverty, and limits reached only after several hundreds or thousands of years, under conditions of high prosperity and universal education in a generally affluent and literate human population.
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