The book is maybe 25% nostalgia, 30% blame. It seems pretty relevant to how we make long-term forecasts.
He’s talking SSTs. I’m unsure what propulsion methods he prefers for those. He claims sonic booms could have been cut in half compared to the Concorde. A good government would have set a fee for sonic booms that bore some resemblance to how much people disvalued loud noise. But the US government seems unwilling to say what conditions an SST would need to meet.
I’m unclear why I’d want undersea cities when there’s room for seasteads.
Lunar colonies would hedge against some catastrophic risks. They might be created for reasons similar to why Europeans settled the New World.
The book is maybe 25% nostalgia, 30% blame. It seems pretty relevant to how we make long-term forecasts.
He’s talking SSTs. I’m unsure what propulsion methods he prefers for those. He claims sonic booms could have been cut in half compared to the Concorde. A good government would have set a fee for sonic booms that bore some resemblance to how much people disvalued loud noise. But the US government seems unwilling to say what conditions an SST would need to meet.
I’m unclear why I’d want undersea cities when there’s room for seasteads.
Lunar colonies would hedge against some catastrophic risks. They might be created for reasons similar to why Europeans settled the New World.