In the previous post, I skipped past Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History in order to draw a parallel between Robert Heinlein's Future History and Anderson's Technic History. Volume I of the Psychotechnic History, inappropriately entitled
The Psychotechnic League, presents its fictional premise that a predictive science of society is possible but difficult to deploy against the protean enemy which is man himself in revolt against the unnatural state of civilization. However, despite the problems that will overwhelm the Psychotechnic Institute in Volume II, "Un-Man" and "The Sensitive Man" present an optimistic perspective of World War III devastation technologically transformed. An apartment building two miles long and over two hundred stories high, indeed a single-building city, overlooks Midwest Agricultural corn fields stretching beyond the horizon while men colonize the seabed and other planets. We will live into only one future but can imagine many and are currently detoured from Anderson's Kith History.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I don't think colonizing the sea beds will ever be seriously attempted. Various forms of "ranching" or near the surface of the sea is far more likely.
Ad astra! Sean
And seabed mining would be done by people living on or near the ocean surface. Either commuting the few km down & up or using some sort of remote control mining devices.
Kaor, Jim!
That too I can agree with.
Ad astra! Sean
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