Re: Private Space (was: Trans-extropian principles)

Robin Hanson (hanson@dosh.hum.caltech.edu)
Fri, 2 Aug 96 09:58:34 PDT


Eric Watt Forste writes:
>This is why I used asterisks when I said "long term". If we become a
>cultural monocrop in the next century, I don't expect that we'll get well
>past that condition until after the diaspora reaches its interstellar
>stages. Geographic (well, cosmographic) separation leads to clading.
>There's been talk of cosmic wormholes and "empires", but if a wormhole can
>be created, it can be destroyed. Emigrants can close the doors behind them.
>Hence, in the *long* term, we'll see clading and differentiation again,

Ordinary roads, ports, and train tracks can be destroyed as well, but
they nevertheless did speed communication and so contribute to
monoculture pressures.

Robin Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/