[thtraveller]

The long lived and AI assisted Duncanites should be long term contingency planners. A slow terra-forming of Mars is still helping to solve the “all the eggs in one basket” problem. The gray-goo scenario is still on the table for Earth with the fractured world power bases and fifth wave _individuals_ capabilities.

Wouldn’t the Duncanites deciding they knew what was best for the species be just as infuriating to the rest of humanity? Duncanites setting themselves up as transhuman gods amongst men surely is at the very least "interesting". Think "Seventh Heaven" where the Duncanites see themselves as the ascended.

I am also not clear that there was a Duncanite "business proposition" in the Mars terraforming project, unless it was an old fashioned land grab?