Quotes from Gerard K. O'Neill

The construction of space colonies will follow a similar pattern, so that by the year 2010 or thereabouts there will be many space colonies in existence and many new ones being constructed each year.

The principal centers for these studies have been the U.S. Naval Medical Center at Pensacola, Florida, and the Soviet space program's ORBIT centrifuge facility in the U.S.S.R.

There have been several attempts at setting up electronic mail systems within the federal post office administration, but all have failed, not for technical reasons, but because the post office is resistant to change, as it is locked into a bureaucratic system in which patronage and civil-service job security are far more important than efficiency. Given that history, it seems to me more likely that electronic mail will come about through private rather than governmental action.

Talking of energy content, don't be so gullible as to believe irresponsible statements that alcohol can easily be substituted for gasoline. Alcohol has so little energy per gallon that its price would have to be less than half that of gasoline before it would be a good buy at the pump.

Instead we will see an increase in a sophisticated, nonviolent form of crime: the counterfeiting of credit cards and the manipulation of the computer programs that carry out transfers of monetary credit.

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Instead, as is already happening to some degree, organized-crime families will turn toward legitimate operations.

There's a flag for every nation in the System," said the captain. ''I'd like to communicate with the ship, but she's already moving so fast that her communications frequencies have shifted out of the band that our standard radios can cover. Of course there's special equipment set up back at data center that's able to communicate with her all the way to Proxima Centauri.

But in a world of fixed size, with no way to get more territory without taking it from a neighbor, there was always a war going on, and usually several.

present he was serving as an advisor in Venezuela, where a new free port for freight interchanges was being planned. Bill's company, Routing Inc., specialized in computer-controlled automatic equipment for transferring freight from one mode of transport to another.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.