Hypothesizing the Continuum of Human Progress

 When I, your faithful servant, vociferously campaigned across the country from the mid 1970s to the late nineties promoting a "crash program" for fusion energy and an MHD revolution in redefining the resource base, the assumption I accepted was that without a massive government outlay along the lines of the Manhattan and Apollo projects, private industry would always fall short due to the enormous financial outlays required. However, it appears that somehow increasing awareness of private entrepreneurs combining with brilliant government research such as the spectacular achievement of Lawrence Livermore in laser fusion may fit the bill. 

The irony is that the Malthusian pseudoscience of the prognostication of the "population bomb" psychological warfare mythos might be hoisted on its own petard. For with fusion and MHD we can achieve a per capita increase of available energy by orders of magnitude. We can envision plentiful Helium 3 being mined on the moon as readily extractable fusion fuel in vast quantities, to say nothing of the next epoch beyond of anti matter mining around the orbits of suitable planetary systems. This is not some daydream of heads in the clouds science fiction.

The which brings me to the subject of this posting. To wit, the uniquely human potential capacity to consciously alter our path to conform with the underlying curvature of upward revolutionary breakthroughs that the very physical makeup of reality affords us. We are the essence of purposeful nature of the harmonic ordering of this the best of all possible worlds.

This being the soul of science and art. And last but not least statecraft. The immortality of the whole history of the continuum of human progress beckons us ever onward. This is the only real faith in the perfectibility of the organization of the universe that we will ever and anon see as though in a glass darkly due to the seemingly transitory nature of our own finite perspective. And yet, our Promethean leap into the ceaselessly unknown bounty of that continuing underlying harmonic ordering ever awaits us ever to be discovered and applied.

Our future is pregnant with a multiplicity of new dimensions as we enter into the limitless age of occupation of solar systems, galaxies and comprehending the ironies that black holes, dark matter and dark energy hold for our yet infant science. 

ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group