A move to space has solved energy problems on Earth.
Terrestrial cities become Integrates.
An extra-solar species colonizes Mars.
Adzel from Woden learns the Terrestrial science of planetology and several human languages and converts to Buddhism.
Some chauvinists organize a Festival of Man.
Sixteen-year old Jim Ching has a car that he can fly above the ocean. He also wants to fly with Betty Riefenstahl to Baja, then to:
"...a restaurant featuring outsystem food."
-"How To Be Ethnic...," p. 187.
Sounds OK. How much chance is there that our world will develop into something like that?
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
For at least some of these things there is at least a chance of them coming to exist. Such as using the energy to be found in space on Earth.
Ad astra! Sean
I wouldn't call the people who organize the Festival of Man chauvinists, exactly. Keeping in touch with your ancestors is a good thing.
I agree about respect for ancestors. But the propaganda for the Festival sounds xenophobic:
"...the false glamour of ideas never born on man's true home..." (p. 180)
Kaor, Paul!
And I mostly agree with Stirling! I did not find that Festival of Man chauvinistic in any seriously bad sense.
Ad astra! Sean
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