Dyson Spheres as a Solution
Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:14 am
Humanity has seen tremendous increases in the standard of living thus far, but these increases have been highly stratified globally and also within individual countries - something quite troubling is the inseparable dependence on burning fossil fuels producing carbon dioxide.
In that sense, human society is akin to a microbe colony in a wine jar, ingesting raw resources and producing carbon dioxide as waste. To prevent the same fate as the microbes, we'd have to transition to a very long-term robust source of energy (such as a Dyson sphere, fusion, or even space-based solar power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power). With all this extra energy, machines could be fully automated nonstop, the grappling for oil and coal would end, and UBI would have no strings attached, etc.
It might not stop there, and the competition for land could cease - we fight over land for obvious reasons all the time, and as a result, develop different countries and eventually cultures. Perhaps a borderless world could even result because we would have all our needs met all the time.
Random thoughts, comments welcome.
In that sense, human society is akin to a microbe colony in a wine jar, ingesting raw resources and producing carbon dioxide as waste. To prevent the same fate as the microbes, we'd have to transition to a very long-term robust source of energy (such as a Dyson sphere, fusion, or even space-based solar power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power). With all this extra energy, machines could be fully automated nonstop, the grappling for oil and coal would end, and UBI would have no strings attached, etc.
It might not stop there, and the competition for land could cease - we fight over land for obvious reasons all the time, and as a result, develop different countries and eventually cultures. Perhaps a borderless world could even result because we would have all our needs met all the time.
Random thoughts, comments welcome.