Democracy Dreams

By Richard Lung

A very short booklet alternative to books one to five in the Democracy Science series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Lung
• Release date: Mar 26, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463612682

Richard Lung

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....Authors have played a big part in my life.Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!2014, slightly modified 2022.

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A space-faring species?

Higher life forms.

Worldly play at salvation.

Individual self and universal self.

Sociology?

Democratic dreams.

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Democracy Dreams

A space-faring species?

Table of Contents.

Man has a future, barring accidents. Mankind has started on the journey to become a space-faring species. We seek to live more spaciously. No doubt it will take global co-operation, in developing the technology, to cross the tremendous distances (a handful of light-years) to neighboring solar systems. Some may harbor Earth-like planets more habitable than the rest of our solar system.

Meeting this challenge is only remotely possible at present. It has just appeared over the scientific horizon.

The Earth was explored by sailing ships navigating the globe, more in years than days. Well into the nineteenth century, Jules Verne could write Around The World In 80 Days as a fiction. Now the talk is for (what amounts to) rocket travel round the globe (presumably for the polluting elite).

A comparable progression is likely for space travel. The first explorers to proximate solar systems will have to do it the hard way, like the sailing ships of old. They are even likely to use solar sails, harnessing the energy of the solar wind, among other forms of propulsion. Later astronauts may benefit from some equivalent invention to air travel over the Earth.

Quantum computers may narrow down the choice of innumerable worm-hole equation solutions, characteristic of string theory. This might make possible hyper-dimensional short-cuts to different points of the universe.

In a 1920 science fiction, H.G. Wells characterised