This is a Holyrood Road website. A planet is too delicate to sustain an energy-rich culture indefinitely. New Plankton is a metaphor for the model of civilisation contained in mobile, self-sustaining space habitats. Civilisation will only measure its history in millions of years when freed from an environment ruled by shortage, or by the fear of shortage. On earth, everything has its price, but where energy and resources are limitless, property loses its meaning, conflict evaporates and social intelligence at last can duly invest in the exploration of nature, and of itself.
Humanity is no longer territorial but planktonic .