The moon is the next great real estate boom. But we will need diplomats too, born or bred, who can empathize with minds that have evolved or been engineered according to a different blueprint. Poets that can imagine multiple suns setting over alien cities. Priests whose God-blasted souls see deeply into the alien presence, simultaneously seized by and recoiling from the incomprehensible nexus. Islands in the Clickstream is a weekly column written by Richard Thieme exploring social and cultural dimensions of computer technology.
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