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Ok, this is now seriously off-track, but ... > It will always be fundamentally hard for many kinds of potential dystopia to coordinate in a uniform way if comm
by guenthert 6y ago
Ok, this is now seriously off-track, but ...
> It will always be fundamentally hard for many kinds of potential dystopia to coordinate in a uniform way if comms have a minimum time in the minutes, days, months or years and direct physical travel time ranges from months to years/centuries to "essentially never the energy cost is so high".
I'm not sure, that works necessarily against a dystopia. What let one, e.g. dictatorship, come to power on one planet, could work the same on others. Arguably the Axis were defeated because the Allies were well coordinated. Imagine Great Britain, USA and Soviet Union could not have communicated and there wouldn't have been a Lend-Lease policy ...
- arcticfox 6y agoIt might be far from fool-proof, but I think it might have the same effect as terrestrial oceans / distance had in the past. Oceans and long distances have always allowed wildly different governments and cultures to flourish contemporaneously; these barriers have become lower and lower lately, but space-scale distances might bring them back.
- mLuby 6y agoDystopias are unfortunately subjective, but I do think societies where citizens aren't free to leave qualify. What matters is that these anti-defection cultures' expansion is contained. If not, pray to Seldon for a relatively short Galactic Dark Age.