FuturePundit Suggests Non-Space Tech Is The Solution

02/12/03 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

Randall Parker (FuturePundit) responds to myself and Rand's suggestions that lost cost vehicles and business practices are solutions to establishing a space economy. His thesis is that the things that will enable such a space economy will come from outside the industry (materials science being driven by other requirements such as military, consumer sports, etc). I definitely agree but I point out that just proves my point: those other industries based those products and the technology used to develop them on real business requirements, not simple technological fetishism.