So, the genesis of this blog came with a book idea: a war between Earth and a Kardashev 2 civilization. In the process of thinking of the background of the story I realized the scale is just staggering as is the level of technological and social development. This makes you think about many themes:
- Future economics specifically post scarcity economics
- Energy technology
- Quantum computing
- Space habitats
- Culture of space habitats
- Trans-humanism with all the questions of lifespan, augmentation, uploading etc.
- Politics – future democracy or what else
- Artificial Intelligence
- Population
A world spanning, actually greater than world spanning, exercise. So, lets think about the future in all sorts of ways and the idea of how a society gets from here to there. Welcome to trying to understand the future.