There was optimism in the air way back in 1999.
There was optimism in the air way back in 1999.
...if you haven't played Sid Meier's Alpha Centari before, I have to say this does frequently lead to conflicts later on.
Alpha Centauri is very late 90s, "end of history" coded indeed.
It is, but I guess Civ always was. From the start the whole "leave Earth, go multiplanetary" thing was baked into the endgame. If anything AC was a post-history sequel.
I mean, honeslty, it was mostly a popular sci-fi mashup, but... you know, that as well.
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
-Commissioner Pravin Lal
-"U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Edit: unfortunately I can't see the meme, but between your title and description, you reminded me of that quote.
I mean, we could use some mindworms right about now.
I second the motion to utilise mindworms.
They already attacked RFK Jr. and it made everything worse...
One was hired to run HHS
Everyone is confident in the unchecked might of capitalism until the mindworms attack.
Whaaat? A Trade Deal between Gaia's Stepdaughters and the Morganites?! Sister Godwinson, deploy the Nukes!!!
Oooooh, I'll annihilate the bible-thumpers. Then I'll annihilate the capitalists, because they already knew what's coming for them.
And then the Peacekeepers, because Commissioner Pravin Lal clearly failed his job?
Superior training and superior weaponry, have, when taken together, a geometric effect on overall military strength.
It's a fallacy to think that commercial interests and the environment can't work together. Our current situation is built around 150 years of established petroleum infrastructure and there is always hesitation to build new things when a working business strategy has been guiding the corporation.
But commerce and environmental causes work so well together because of the renewable and low maintenance ideas that emerge from their overlap. That's how solar panels, wind turbines, and geothermal energy got started. What's stopping them is the addiction to the old ways of energy commerce.
Morgan would gladly take money for R&D into renewables that require a subscription. Capitalists understand infinite (ie renewable) resources with low to no procurement costs are the future of the product. Wind and sunshine are also on almost every planet - this is future proofing energy production and it all feeds back into the money machine to make it easier, cheaper, and more resilient.
True, but if left unchecked, capitalists seeking shorter-term (extractive) profits will outcompete and bury their more far-sighted counterparts. That is unless there is an incentive structure exterior to purely commercial interests.
Not saying you weren't considering this caveat, but more for completeness.
It's enough to make you want to go into the recycling tanks.