Appropos of the Ray Kurzweil piece on the dangers represented by coming technologies, here's Glenn Reynolds on the dangerous future, and the important function that space colonies might play in it:
Sounds like a scary world, but an inevitable one. I attended a high-level conference that discussed terrorism and advanced technologies a few years ago. One of the participants mentioned afterward that all of this talk made her think that colonies in outer space might be the only thing that would save the human race. She might be right.
She might at that.
Posted by Phil at October 8, 2003 10:44 AM | TrackBack