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Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.
It’s also been the site of very real exploration for more than half a century. But that exploration has been driven by competing dreams–scientific discovery, economic exploitation, geopolitics, and more.
Science fiction scholar Lou Cornum asks: If humans are to leave Earth and become an interplanetary species, whose vision of the future will be realized? And who will get to be a part of it?
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We Are All Astronauts
Half a century after Buckminster Fuller published Spaceship Earth, the future is more organic than he thought
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The Far Side of Utopia
In the 1960s, space programs in Lebanon and Zambia suggested a changed geopolitical world had corollaries in a larger cosmos
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We Are a Space People
Indigenous takes on Star Wars reorder the cosmos, even if its paradoxes are inescapable
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When Space Films Are Just a Vehicle for Patriotism
Focusing on the achievements of “great men in space” overshadows the wonder of the cosmos
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Who Gets to Go to Space?
When billionaires dictate the future of off-world exploration, space becomes just another capitalist gimmick
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How We Get To Next was a magazine that explored the future of science, technology, and culture from 2014 to 2019.