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Published · transcript-backedStewart Brand: belief
26 Jan 2022 Conversations with Tyler Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
“Kim Stanley Robinson recently did a book called, I think, Aurora, where he basically makes your point and my point: that if you get people out that far, the wear and tear on the social fabric, on the biology, on everything — you cannot isolate a very complex biological system like humans for that long and expect to get anywhere that’s useful.”
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…Right outside the Earth, I think there will be some, but I’ve not for a long time been very optimistic about space as the future of progress. I just don’t see what’s the scarce input out there that we really need. If you think, “Well, the Earth is so crowded, we must go elsewhere,” but if you’ve lived in New Jersey or the Netherlands or South Korea, that hardly seems like an imperative. Exactly. I think I share that. I think it’ll be basically voluntary and of interest. Science fiction makes great use of the generation ships and so on. Kim Stanley Robinson recently did a book called, I think, Aurora, where he basically makes your point and my point: that if you get people out that far, the wear and tear on the social fabric, on the biology, on everything — you cannot isolate a very complex biological system like humans for that long and expect to get anywhere that’s useful. What was the nature of your mother’s interest in space and space colonies? She seemed almost obsessed with it.…
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