I was watching this movie called Wall-E. All the human beings were living on a space station that consisted of a mall, a pool, comfortable places to eat and sleep... you name it! I am just really curious to know if we will have the technology to build these kind of space stations.
do you think this will happen in the future? Will we have the technology to do this?
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That sort of technology simply pales beyond reason compared to the technology we will possess in merely the next thousand years.
Zardoz - "What industry could justify the expense of the energy required to maintain a space mall?"
This will be the first of three nails in the coffin of Capitalism, and the money system itself:
Reliable fusion technology will provide humanity with unlimited free clean energy forever. Our fusion reactors will be able to exceed today's total world energy production by a factor of a million, and we'll power the entire planet using a few swimming-pool-sized loads of sea water a day. I predict this within the next fifty years.
"Economy, not technology would prevent it. What would they do to earn their keep?"
This is the second nail.
The very concept of "earning one's keep" will not exist for all that much longer. A fully-automated society will render the necessity for human labour obsolete. Every person on Earth will have unfettered access to anything and everything they want. I have no doubt that some humans will continue to engage in what we today consider "jobs", but it will be out of a desire to act or create, not necessity.
I predict this within one hundred years.
"Mining an asteroid made of cut diamonds in little, black felt boxes, gold doubloons and Dove Bars wouldn't keep it in business."
And this is the third.
Replicator technology will allow us to reconfigure matter on a subatomic level, providing us with an unlimited supply of any conceivable substance. Humans, long before this point, will have virtually outgrown what is one of if not *the* greatest hindrance towards a qualitative transformation of the nature of our species: the ancient problem of finite resources. However, replicator technology will allow us to surpass merely *virtually* solving this problem, and actually solve it entirely.
Given the exponential advancement of technology, I predict this within two hundred years.
Zardoz - "What industry could justify the expense of the energy required to maintain a space mall?"
This will be the first of three nails in the coffin of Capitalism, and the money system itself:
Reliable fusion technology will provide humanity with unlimited free clean energy forever. Our fusion reactors will be able to exceed today's total world energy production by a factor of a million, and we'll power the entire planet using a few swimming-pool-sized loads of sea water a day. I predict this within the next fifty years.
"Economy, not technology would prevent it. What would they do to earn their keep?"
This is the second nail.
The very concept of "earning one's keep" will not exist for all that much longer. A fully-automated society will render the necessity for human labour obsolete. Every person on Earth will have unfettered access to anything and everything they want. I have no doubt that some humans will continue to engage in what we today consider "jobs", but it will be out of a desire to act or create, not necessity.
I predict this within one hundred years.
"Mining an asteroid made of cut diamonds in little, black felt boxes, gold doubloons and Dove Bars wouldn't keep it in business."
And this is the third.
Replicator technology will allow us to reconfigure matter on a subatomic level, providing us with an unlimited supply of any conceivable substance. Humans, long before this point, will have virtually outgrown what is one of if not *the* greatest hindrance towards a qualitative transformation of the nature of our species: the ancient problem of finite resources. However, replicator technology will allow us to surpass merely *virtually* solving this problem, and actually solve it entirely.
Given the exponential advancement of technology, I predict this within two hundred years.
HippieChild1
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Wait, isn't that an animated movie though>?
It'sjustme
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Go back 100 years and try to explain a computer, the internet, cell phones, satellite Tv, Cds/dvds. I don't think we can predict what the next century will be like completely. We might be able to build cities in space one day, only time will tell.
In science fiction they easily discard simple concepts of physics such as gravity, and problems of the human condition. A ship like Wall-E would only be inhabited by the mega wealthy, and they would still have huge class distinctions. I find the future is a show such as B-5 far more believable. Certainly would could try and build comfort resorts in space, but it seems to me Earth bound resorts would be much cheaper and easier. The only advantage of having ones in space, is if you want to take advantage of things like microgravity to make the resort more unique.
Santaclaus
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Well if you say that is going to happen then it is going to happen in the future. By the time we get to the next level of technology. It will happen we will know when it will happen because we made technology by our brains. Us humans will get bigger brains and we will make better technology in the future because we will evolve into better creatures. (But remember if we create to much powerful technology we might be extinct because of that technology so let us not make too much powerful technology hope not.)