Utopian dreams become post- evolutionary imperatives. Because technology so successfully mediates between the body and the world, it disconnects the body from many of its functions. The body plugged into a machine network needs to be passified. The problem with space travel is no longer with the precision and reliability of technology but with the vulnerability and durability of the human body. It is the human component that has to be sustained and also protected from small changes of pressure, temperature and radiation.
Symbiotic systems seem the best strategy.
A single operator could direct a colony of robots in different locations simultaneously or scattered human experts might collectively control a particular surrogate robot. Teleoperation systems would have to be more than hand-eye mechanisms. It meshes the body with its machines in ever-increasing complexity and interactivity. The body's form is enhanced and its functions are extended. Electronic space restructures the body's architecture and multiplies its operational possibilities.