SETI public: Terrans vs. Cosmists - has this been played out before elsewhere?

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It looks like Dr. Hugo de Garis' prediction is coming true:

http://www.cs.usu.edu/~degaris/

And on a related note:

http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/MatrioshkaBrains/index.html

Larry

>From: MarcusJohn_at_aol.com
>To: public_at_setileague.org
>Subject: Re: SETI public: "Life Styles of the Rich and Immortal on
>Holovision" and Re:...
>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:28:19 EDT
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>In a message dated 8/15/2005 7:57:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ron_at_u2ai.us
>writes:
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>I can understand your position, but consider a world where energy is very
>cheap, robots make every thing, and each person has access to and
>understands the total human knowledge base. Economics is built on
>scarcity.
>A money system will probably always exist because it is a voting system
>for
>limited resources, but for all practical purposes poverty as we understand
>should disappear.
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>I think that you are 100 percent right. In fact I think that our political
>goals right now, if we take a long enough view of things, should be to
>attempt
>to create this society.
>
>We need to make energy cheap. We need to make knowledge cheap. We need to
>make manufacturing cheap (with robots).
>
>Once we are well on our way to these goals, then poverty should disappear,
>enlightenment should multiply, and wealth and comfort will abound.
>
>We can all then concentrate on things that really matter, i.e., our
>families, our spirituality, our search for knowledge, etc.
>
>John

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