The solar mirror solution to the Ice Age problem would have the following consequence:
"It would take away the night skies we have regained. We would not see many stars, for there would be no full darkness." (p. 47)
Would this be a big issue for the global population? The passage continues:
"But simulacra are plentiful; or you can enjoy a holiday in space; and otherwise our world remains much the same." (ibid.)
A world population that has access to plentiful simulacra and that can enjoy holidays in space! They should not mind the loss of full darkness.
Laurinda, addressing the population, summarizes history:
"...to show it was unforeseeable." (p. 50)
The Neolithic Revolution:
tamed wildernesses;
fed larger populations;
founded towns;
built smithies;
changed free hunters into peasants;
elevated god-kings.
Pharaohs were laid to eternal rest and their tombs were plundered. The rest of this passage is a catalogue of conflicts until new technologies rehabilitate Earth.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
What I suspect would happen is that such a complex, long range plan would run into unexpected, unpredictable setbacks, even disasters. Assuming, of course, AIs are even possible.
If those Pharaohs had been content to be buried more modestly, without so temptingly much gold and jewelry, then more of their tombs would not have been plundered.
Ad astra! Sean
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