Seems to fit the description! Future philosophers, please cite my name as "rhn" :) Looking at Wikipedia's list, I'd put it behind 9. The colonization explosion

Seems to fit the description! Future philosophers, please cite my name as "rhn" :) Looking at Wikipedia's list, I'd put it behind 9. The colonization explosion. As long as there is something to do - discover, colonize, compute - there will be a part of humanity that finds outside challenges. Colonization is the raison d'etre of Culture in Iain Banks' series, as described in this article: http://sciphijournal.org/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation-of-iain-m-banks/ http://sciphijournal.org/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciatio...