This week's show is part of the harbinger mediu network, a group left wing podcasts that are made in canada. We focus on how visions of space habitation and colonization from the past inspire the ideas that elan musq, jeff basos and people like that espouse to day. And we also dip into science fiction, these narratives around colonization,. Also kind of what that tells us about ideas about world building, world making. If you like Tect won't save us, i would ask you to please consider becoming a supporter.
Paris Marx is joined by Fred Scharmen to discuss Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos’ visions for space colonization, the inspiration they draw from the work of Wernher von Braun and Gerard O’Neill, and what’s wrong with basing our future on those ideas.
Fred Scharmen is the author of Space Forces: A Critical History of Life in Outer Space. He teaches architecture and urban design at Morgan State University’s School of Architecture and Planning and is the co-founder of the Working Group on Adaptive Systems. Follow Fred on Twitter at @sevensixfive.
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