"ActuSF : In your book, you’re describing a situation in less than 50 years where humans will be operating comets for its ice and have colonies on the Moon and Mars. Do you think our actual economy and biggest interests and strategies for future will produce such technological advances and developments ? What in your opinion, would be the major event capable to move the world toward such situation ?
Alastair Reynolds : It’s not impossible that we could achieve these things in 50 years - we achieved a lot between 1919 and 1969, as I am fond of pointing out - but on the other hand we did have a world war and the aftermath of another to accelerate technological development. For now, if war is ruled out (which I fondly hope is the case) the biggest obvious driver would be economics, a new gold rush, with private enterprise springing into space. In some respects, that seems to be happening - but it’s far too early to say what the long-term consequences will be. "
3.5 out of 5
http://www.actusf.com/spip/Interview-d-Alastair-Reynolds-VO,12607.html
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