...
> Mankind  will find largely unlimited resources.  Carbon, Silicon, etc.
> that will
> be transformed by nano-technology and cheap power ( solar, fusion,
> zero-point )
> which will vastly increase productivity.  This will happen if ..( snip
> - snip politics )
...

Power too cheap to meter ...

           Edison.

:-)

But, yes, better slaves will come. Fusion has been 30 years away for the 
last 50 or so. But, it too will come, probably within 30 years :-).

Antimatter generated by low solar orbit [tm] LASERS summoning it out of the 
weft of spacetime will power 'our' system hopping shuttles. Mars will be but 
a week or few away, depending on how much energy you want to waste. The 
Asteroid belt will rain both Nickel-Iron and Platinum upon us (hopefully in 
a controlled manner), and the lion will lie down with the lamb.

But, for now, we have to get through the current low point, and it looks 
like a bit of a doozy*.


      Russell

* http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-doo2.htm

Not quite the usual usage in this ref. 

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