ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes public opinion findings to suggest some ideas that he believe are as likely as any others to come to reality over the course of the next 80 years of the 21st century. The idea is particularly important when it comes to the essential requirements for human life: food, potable water, breathable air, and energy for temperature control. Yet a majority of people respect the ability of companies to marshal human endeavor – seeing them as the modern-day equivalent of the Roman system of legions in this respect. This may be essential both for retaining business's social license to operate and grow, and for meeting humanity's challenges in the time-frame required. Requiring high-risk scientific experiments and potentially hazardous technologies and manufacturing processes to be pursued in Earth orbit or eventually in Moon or Mars colonies is the ultimate way of having them pay their full cost to humanity, including all "externalities."
