Re: Changing Economic Assumptions

From: Ken Clements (Ken@Innovation-On-Demand.com)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 14:11:22 MDT


"Corwyn J. Alambar" wrote:

> Space exploration and colonization. This is one of the biggest, if not the
> biggest, endeavor mankind has encountered in the history of civilization. It
> is, however, going to require us to rethink some of our most basic assumptions
> about how we measure value and economy, and how we deal with so-called common
> goods, and "unaccounted costs" of business and living.
>

Corey, while you are doing this rethinking be sure to keep in mind that the
technology available at this future time will often make modifying people to fit
environments cheaper than modifying large scale environments to fit the physiology
we have today.

-Ken



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