Reply To: A new way of generating electricity

[Rezwan]

I’m all for transcendental laziness.

The essay about the aliens identifies the folks we’re trying to address here.

…MIT graduates who apply to do computer game design for Electronics Arts, rather than rocket science for NASA

There is a generation out there of bright, talented people. Lured by technologically delivered fakeries.

Actually colonizing the galaxy would be so much harder than pretending to have done it when filming Star Wars or Serenity.

We’re trying to re-connect the dream and the real. Keep re-grounding the dream so they don’t get so far out of synch.

Our job is to keep bringing up the fact that, AHEM, it’s still fantasy. How’s the real thing coming along? Have you taken any action towards making the real thing happen yet? All right, then get back to work, slackers.

Geoffrey Miller paints a dire picture, but I think we can have an effective balance of fun and reality.