Right on. AND, as market demand rises, inflation will eventually make
space travel, even using existing technology, cost effective. The day
you spend $1000.00 for a burger (and think you're getting a deal) will
be the day you can fly to the moon for a million bucks as part of a fare
ware among space lines. Once we reach that level, our resource base will
be infinite. Going the other way, using nanoassemblers takes recycling,
efficiency, and conservation to an extreme, which will make resources as
cheap and easy to obtain as air, while the tools that create them and
use them in ever increasing complexity will be costly at first, but will
be used like PCs to build better versions of succeeding generations of
themselves for less.
Please bear in mind that one can have inflation AND decreasing resource
costs at the same time in an economy, as more and more economic value
has to do with work, intellectual property, services. One can even have
rising resource costs in dollar value becomeing relatively cheaper over
time, as they become smaller and smaller parts of the economic pie.
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