Agreed on this. The ringworld thing comes out of nowhere and doesn’t clearly follow from the content of the article.
Unless the point is to wink-wink-nudge-nudge at the idea that we might have to do some weird-looking and weird-sounding things in order to save the world… in which case I still don’t like the picture.
Agreed on this. The ringworld thing comes out of nowhere and doesn’t clearly follow from the content of the article.
Unless the point is to wink-wink-nudge-nudge at the idea that we might have to do some weird-looking and weird-sounding things in order to save the world… in which case I still don’t like the picture.
I read it as “but there’s still hope for a big wonderful future”, but this is tentative.
In any case, thanks for the exposure to Richard Fraser’s art.
Or, apparently, a small wonderful future. Look how tiny that ring is!