> It's a bit chicken and egg, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where off-world becomes the new Shenzen. So easy to imagine that we've been doing so for 40 y

> It's a bit chicken and egg, but it's easy to imagine a scenario where off-world becomes the new Shenzen. So easy to imagine that we've been doing so for 40 years [0]. In fact, the basic technology seems to have been in place for 40 years as well, but no economic incentive to execute on these grand plans for permanent human habitation in space has yet been found. Furthermore, I have yet to see any evidence that such incentive will ever be found. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colonies_in_Space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Frontier:_Human_Colon...