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Old 09-30-2011, 01:35 AM   #11
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Default Re: Terraforming the Solar System

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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2 View Post
Nope. It's meaningless to project concepts like 'libertarian', 'private', 'public', etc into the distant future, economics and politics and religion change with time too much for that. The world we live in today is radically improbable, almost unimaginable, by the economic, cultural, and religious parameters of even 1600.
People are still people, even though the 'past is a foreign country.'

If you are going to argue that people aren't still basically people in the future, with societies we can understand, then aren't you moving well outside Traveller?

If you are saying 'in a million years, the genetically enchanced parahuman heirs of homo sapiens will live on a green Mars, surrounded by the wonders of their sufficiently advanced technology', that's basically the same as me saying ' no, no, by that time we will have divided into Eloi and Morlocks.'
It's wild-eyed speculation.
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