The story behind the elite scientists, technologists, SF
enthusiasts, and billionaires who believe that humanity's destiny
is to populate the stars . . . Does humanity have a destiny "in the
stars?" Should a species triggering massive extinctions on its own
planet instead stay put? This new book traces the waxing and waning
of interest in space settlement through the decades, and offers a
journalistic tour through the influential subculture attempting to
shape a multiplanetary future. What motivates figures such as
billionaires Elon Musk and Yuri Milner? How important have science
fiction authors and filmmakers been in stirring enthusiasm for
actual space exploration and settlement? Is there a coherent
motivating philosophy and ethic behind the spacefaring dream? Star
Settlers offers both a historical perspective and a journalistic
window into a peculiar subculture packed with members of the
scientific, intellectual, and economic elite. This timely work
captures the extra-scientific zeal for space travel and settlement,
places it in its historical context, and tackles the somewhat
surreal conceptions underlying the enterprise and prognoses for its
future.
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