The Lost Tomorrows of Space Colonies and Nanotech
2nd June 2013
Remember the dreams of the late 20th century? Orbiting solar panels would beam down the planet’s power supply. Machines on the moon would grind out raw materials and spit them into space to build space colonies and zero-gravity factories. Everything we wanted would be manufactured molecule by molecule, via contraptions smaller than the smallest objects we previously knew.
And we were on track to do that, before LBJ’s War on Poverty and Great Society sucked up all of the money, and the Democrats decided that they wanted to use the welfare system to destroy the black family and cement the Lower Crust as their reliably-voting faithful client class.