Half a century after humans left footprints on the Moon space exploration, and exploitation, have entered a new era. Private space companies are developing new launch vehicles and spacecrafts, there is a sixth branch of the US military called “Space Force”, and international cooperation in space – whose greatest symbol...
Category: Astropolitics
Launching Cyber Republic at the LSE
https://youtu.be/TA2FjzPu-hI Video of my conversation with Lichelle Wolmarans about Cyber Republic, organized by the LSE Alumni on October 27, 2020.
The future of democracy podcast
Many thanks to Alan Boyle, editor at Cosmic Log, and scifi author Dominica Phetteplace for interview and podcast on "Cyber Republic" and politics of the future. Listen to the podcast here: https://anchor.fm/fiction-science
Space republics: how to democratise space exploration and accelerate colonisation
I have vivid memories from the hot July night of 1969 when the Eagle landed on the Moon. I was nearly five then. I was woken up[1] and hurried by my parents, still dressed in my pyjamas, to our next-door neighbour who owned one of the very few, black-and-white, television...
Abandoning the metropolis: space colonisation as the new imperative
The year 2019 began with news of the most distant object ever visited by a spaceship and the landing of a probe on the far side of the Moon. On New Year's Day[1] New Horizons, a robotic spaceship launched in 2006, was transmitting photographs of a bizarre, snowman-shaped object called...