The perpetual growth paradigm is our norm for the foreseeable future…
In 50 years, you’ll see semiconductor foundries, fiber-optics, pharmaceutical production, and it’ll be happening at the equivalent scale of Taiwan,” said Delian, when I asked him to give me his best guess on what space will look like in 50 years. “You’ll basically have industrial parks in orbit, a few people who work in those industrial parks, some permanently, some who treat it more like an oil rig — three weeks in space, three weeks on Earth — basically shuttling back and forth.