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Thomas Watson thought there was a market for maybe five computers in the whole world. Now computing devices outnumber humans. There's no guarantee that there wi

Thomas Watson thought there was a market for maybe five computers in the whole world. Now computing devices outnumber humans. There's no guarantee that there will be a similar explosion in the size of the orbital (and eventually deep space) markets but it's not a large leap to believe that lower cost of access to space will open up many new opportunities that we haven't even imagined yet.

lumost 5y ago
As part of this, there is no inherent reason to believe that 5-20k rocket rides/interplanetary transit wouldn't rapidly become a major lifestyle/luxury item similar to jetset lifestyles of the 50s/60s. There are a large number of interesting economic opportunities from resource extraction to supersized science experiments and energy production once we're out of the gravity well at reasonable economics.