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Simon Morden: “Even the most hostile environment we’ve ever faced – the vacuum of space – has had a continuous human population for more than two decades. So why not Mars? If we can live in Antarctica, if we can live in space, then surely it’s simply a question of logistics. If we can put enough materiel on the surface of the Red Planet, then perhaps we can survive – and even thrive – there.”
Samuel Hammond: “Within a decade, ordinary people will have more capabilities than a CIA agent does today. […] Bots will slide into your DMs and have long, engaging conversations with you until they sense the best moment to send their phishing link. […] Relationships will fall apart when the AI lets you know, via microexpressions, that he didn’t really mean it when he said he loved you. Copyright will be as obsolete as sodomy law, as thousands of new Taylor Swift albums come into being with a single click. […] Death-by-kamikaze drone will surpass mass shootings as the best way to enact a lurid revenge. The courts, meanwhile, will be flooded with lawsuits because who needs to pay attorney fees when your phone can file an airtight motion for you?” (H/T: Alex Tabarrok)
