This is what "trickle down" technology looks like. We are watching space flight move a rung down the economic ladder.
Nation states -> wealthy bigco -> billionare's pet project -> ????? -> normal people
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Nation states -> wealthy bigco -> billionare's pet project -> ????? -> normal people
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Even in smaller time frames, I read somewhere that one of Bezos' plans is to move manufacturing into space.
And if/when we do get colonies on other planets and moons, some people would want to live there.
In, what, five billion years? I’m not sure we need Bezos to be focusing all his money on that timeframe.
I am also sure that you could do cool sports events on the moon or a big space station.
The wealthy early adopters provide the capital to refine and scale up the industry to make it practical and affordable for less wealthy late adopters.