If we don’t invent one, the consequences could be catastrophic. The time to act is now.

Aeon MagazineBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 4

By Marko Kovic | Edited by Sam Dresser

The year is 2087. Thanks to a series of serendipitous technological breakthroughs a few decades earlier, the creation of large-scale, self-sustainable human…