Dennis Hollingsworth

Boondoggle

"Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand."

This post is in praise of visionaries.

Read the article: How one Japanese village defied the tsunami.

(Bonus hint: the image above is an Easter egg so that you might see the nature of the landform and its particular susceptibility to tsunamis.)

Remember Kotaku Wamura.

Time to build the space elevator and then space based solar power.*
And global free internet.
And asteroid wrangling/mining.

That is all.

* I yet don't have faith that terrestrial based solar power will be technologically capable in the near future, or even in our lifetime. Only one barrier exists for the elevator and that is the creation of carbon nanotube cables. To temper my optimism and to follow a mirror view, read this. There is a reason for the other name of this kind of technological dream: 'unobtainium'.