Robert remembers an old tramp in his den under the trees by the Mississippi: unemployable but unembittered, drawing citizen's allowance, tramping the planet and telling forgotten stories about Br'er Rabbit. But I could spend a retirement like that if it came to it! We certainly deserve that "citizen's allowance" from a high tech global economy if it does not need our labor.
I read of an Italian veteran with a small pension and an unlimited free pass on Italian trains so he slept in sleeper cars and spent his days in cafes and parks wherever the train had deposited him each morning. What a life!
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Kaor, Paul!
And my view is that we will first need to get OFF this rock in a really meaningful way before that kind of highly advanced technology becomes possible.
Ad astra! Sean
These days you can even carry a lot of books along... 8-).
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, if you mean space explorers and adventurers will be able to take many books along which had been scanned into computer databases. Albeit, my personal is still for hard copy books. But most travelers into space will probably be able to only a few books in codex form. And they will be the books esp. meaningful to them. Such as the Bible, Dante's DIVINE COMEDY, or selections from the works of Shakespeare or Kipling.
Ad astra! Sean
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