No it won't. Humanity it too greedy and short sighted to do anything like that. We can't even stop producing gigatons of CO2 every year in order to just survive.

Misanthropy is boring

Technology will solve global warming and medicine will enable everyone to live forever.

The singularity should happen soon; we'll go beyond space elevators by that point.

not only that this is the same shit they say every couple years. The reality is the physics dont add up with current materials and it wouldn't be cost effective anyways. We are never building a space elevator.

What? That’s literally the opposite of the case; the materials are possible, and it would cost less than 50 billion to build…

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ugh I'm not hashing this out again. Go read up on it in the comment here. Already hashed out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/z7uxad/scifilike_space_elevators_could_become_a_reality/

Why? I'm already talking to aerospace ceos about personal airship manufacturing that puts single ownership around 65k$ per unit. This means fuel less space launches and all domain craft... What do we need space elevators for? That's a waste of resources better used for movement toward type 2

Singularity will happen next week maybe tomorrow

By definition, there is no prediction of what is on the other side of a singularity.

You could just as easily see the extinction of the human race.

Is all good until a couple of drones try to highjack it to broadcast combat data to a bunch of automated factories...

I feel like an editor must have made them change the lead because it appears to be about active support structures instead of space elevators.

Honestly it's a tragedy that so many forward-thinking writers are trapped under the thumb of a corporate management culture that spent the past 20 years purging everyone with more than half a brain.

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We can use a catapult system, kinetic systems and solar laser concentrator/elevators are also viable options that are not as payload dependent

I wouldn't try that one here. By my observation this is the single most often ignored property of the singularity by a large margin. I mean, it's understandable at least, a phenomenon which evokes strong curiosity in many people.

we will never build a flying machine

If you ignore media hysteria and read the actual reports from actual scientists, global warming isn’t even going to be that bad. The world will warm by a few degrees and we will deal with it because we will be richer and have more technology. There are way bigger concerns than global warming.

Sweet.

>We can't even stop producing gigatons of CO2 every year in order to just survive.

There are reasons for why this comparison doesn't work. But I don't want to get into politics.

My dude, it's very bad or worse than most people think it is. That's the only message by scientists. "Economists" don't count. It's just not easily solvable because entrenched political positions and interests, to an extent where it's pointless to care about it. We can only hope for technology to fix some of it, for the survivors, after the first real big waves of destruction came in. No one would take this risk and accept the loss of ecosystems intentionally.

I listened to podcast (in German, Pritlove) some years ago where someone working for European Space Agency as mission planner did the math, and concluded the materials only need to get 10x-100x stronger to make it work.

I think it does. The inability of humans to work for the future. Short term greed overwhelms everything. The excessive consumption of fossil fuels is controlled by the rich and powerful who don't want to lose that rich and powerful so they will kill the Planet for short term gains. Space ladder construction would require a huge amount of money to accomplish. No one wants to give up their money to do that.

> The singularity should happen soon; we'll go beyond space elevators by that point.

I'll believe that once it happens. So far, while the scientists are talking about space elevators, I can't make the local ISP extend the fiber cable across a single road so I can connect to the node which is just a few meters away from my house. Forgive me taking such grand promises with a grain of salt.