If the social order can just hold together long enough, I really believe that humans will eventually solve the riddle of faster than light travel. At the rate the material sciences are advancing, it could happen at any time. It wouldn’t surprise me at all, if we achieved that breakthrough by mid century, or before.
We meet, but in twenty to thirty years, we may well see humans embarking on the first missions to colonize other worlds. It’s been estimated that there are billions of habitable planets in our Galaxy, alone. There’s plenty of room for the disparate groups among us to go found their own ‘perfect’ homes.
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