How Close Can Mankind Come to Reaching Utopia? - Part 3

In my last article I bestowed a drag that might develop over future seventy five years as our world population will increase from today's seven billion to concerning eighteen billion. I conjointly represented some way to show this downside into a profit since poor associate degreed indigent individuals might have jobs in mining and use of non-renewable materials that there'll be an exponentially increasing demand. {in a|during a|in associate degree exceedingly|in a very} free market system these jobs might give an increasing client base and grow the world's economy.

One issue I touched upon within the previous article, is that the center East can run out of oil within the next thirty to forty years. If you're thinking that concerning it, a serious shift in however individuals during this region assume and live might accompany this event. The question is can or not it's a positive or negative amendment, and what's its impact with respect to my projected utopia? My guess is that the amendment are going to be positive -- a minimum of I hope therefore. The worldview of monotheism extremists does not match my utopian model, and a positive amendment might result once the money pool dries up once the oil runs out. once today's extremists reach my age -- seventy three -- {they won't|they can not} be as extreme and their kids will adapt to the modified circumstance. albeit they're even as adamant on changing the globe to Islam, they will not have the money to try and do therefore. maybe they're going to ought to work to feed themselves and their families, and their idealism are going to be qualified. If we're lucky, maybe their kids can see the globe in an exceedingly all completely different lightweight -- a minimum of I hope therefore.

And, this might be a start line for my projected utopian society, particularly if the views of the remainder of the globe begin the merging method. confine mind that new generations of kids -- in an exceedingly globally connected economy -- will produce the a time of recent beginnings that might and may bring United States of America all at once instead of drive United States of America apart. i think that we are going to still have wealthy and poor for several years into the longer term -- till we have a tendency to reach utopia -- however the poor will not be as poor as they're these days. they will not be indigent.

Although rather more might be aforesaid concerning however future seventy five years would possibly unfold, i would like to say an additional issue before i purchase to future part of my planned transition to utopia. From my initial article, during this series, i discussed the immense amounts of materials which will doubtless exist in space; and maybe your thinking that economic extraction of those materials is not possible. Well -- what i might say is "try thinking out of the box." We're not planning to send astronauts in house suits to try and do the job! If my projected electrically battery-powered, self replicating, mass created, android/robots were on the market they would not want house suits, air, food, and different facilities to survive, and nil gravity can build moving massive and significant objects quite manageable. i will discuss this a lot of later, however initial cross-check what would possibly happen within the next seventy five year timeframe.

With all of the non-renewable materials doubtless existing in house, our existing program -- independent agency -- is outwardly not presently fascinated by mining it. My read is that future circumstances and popular opinion can amendment this, and it'll begin by mining the moon for atomic number 2 three and noble metal (In case you are interested the worth of atomic number 2 three as a fuel for generating wattage is concerning 5 million bucks per pound, and at fourteen hundred bucks per ounce -- noble metal can become a lot of in demand as chemical element electric cell vehicles become a lot of in worldwide use). the {method} can possibly need an affordable new method of transporting earth materials into house. as a result of materials square measure proof against acceleration forces, this technique can most likely be associate degree Earth based mostly magnetic force launch ring, a moon based mostly catapult system, associate degree orbiting materials process satellite, and a Moon to Earth shuttle. during this situation, we are going to method Moon materials in house -- not on the Moon.

The orbiting satellite might be an {inside|an interior|an internal} rotating cylinder that simulates Earth's gravity on its inside surface. For starters to Illustrate that this embedded cylinder is one mile in diameter and 3 miles long, and it's designed victimization elements (including compressed air) created on Earth and assembled in house victimization thousands of pre-programmed robots. within the central a part of the embedded cylinder, a smaller cylinder might be created to method Moon materials at close to zero gravity. though robots might in theory accomplish the whole method, i might expect to own humans living on the within surface of the satellite and oversight all aspects of the method -- together with device of the Moon mining operations.

My expectation is that my planned independent agency project won't be completed in seventy five years from currently. however if we have a tendency to had a visionary government -- supported by economic system entrepreneurs -- it might. are you able to think about some cash creating aspects that might drive this program -- besides commerce atomic number 2 three and platinum?

Stay tuned as we have a tendency to venture into unmapped territory on our thanks to utopia.

My name is Don Bongaards and i am a retired engineer and author of 3 books.

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