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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

Conversations with Tyler

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I Love Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky

I suspect also it would be a kind of dystopia to have Heinlein's tunnel in the sky. Even individual governments, as you know, they put mobility restrictions often on citizens. I love that sort of stuff, as you may have noticed. There's an economic model behind everything and an engineering model behind everything,. And the economic and the engineering models are integrated.

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