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Any off world colony is going to resemble the PRC or (even North Korea!) far more than the Western Democracies - at least for the first few generations. The fragile, incredibly resource constrained e… (View Post)

That possibly depends on if your talking about group sex Heinlein or service-guarantees-citizenship Heinlein. (View Post)

The AI defines the terms of that society - the rest is how they entertain their pets. (View Post)

Given the nature of California at that point, I suspect there was a reasonable overlap between the tech/hippy/scifi/academic communities. (View Post)

Grok means 'to understand'. It's a term that was taken from Heinlein and has been rattling around the tech (and US tech) culture since at least the 70s. (View Post)