>>4488476First we need to find an economically viable system of launching ships able to hold a reasonable payload into space and then having them able to land and be reused, something that companies like SpaceX are already working on. Then we'd need a reason to go into space, this likely being to mine resources such iron, platinum, gold, and so on from both asteroids and the moon. We'd have to create the equipment and the techniques to do that, a cargo ship that would be able to transport people and tons of resource cargo, and build sustainable bases where the mining would take place. There's also space tourism which may also bring innovation in living in space, but for the most part, the draw to space will be for resources.
I'd say we'll have some for of healthy space travel at least around Earth and the Moon by 2100, but for resource mining, I don't see that taking a strong hold until at least 2150.
Capital brought us to the New World and made it a viable place to live, Capital will bring us into Outer Space and make it too into a viable place to live.
>>4488805I don't understand that when people think of the "ideal future," they think this dull, modernistic architecture that looks like an unsymmetrical clusterfuck of random technology and futuristic commieblocks with no unique culture present whatsoever. Ditto to when they show future everyday aesthetics being ultra minimalistic in fashion, art, and decor.
It just looks fucking ugly and sterile.
