Astrophysicist and space policy researcher Jessy Kate’s TED Talk 2020 just went live.

“We could realistically see people starting to live and work on the Moon in the next decade, and how we do it matters. These are questions of social technology, not rockets and hardware.”

I’ll also share a couple foundational Open Lunar meetings I hosted at work, from low-cost lunar settlement to architectures for civilization building (in comments below).

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    jurvetson

    keepin’ it real at Open Lunar Foundation And back in 2014, Jessy Kate exploring governance topics at our Low Cost Lunar Settlement confab We have had so many interesting guests and co-collaborators with the Open Lunar Foundation over the years. Larry Lessig's Lunar LegacyFor this one, I invited Larry Lessig to come to our SF office to talk about the governance issues of a remote colony, and the possible futures unfolding from the framing constitution and economic system — his area of legal expertise.

    This led to some fascinating questions around sovereignty and choices for the early days (~ 10 person colony) versus later on, along the axes of capitalism/socialism, authoritarian/libertarian and direct/representative democracy. As a thought experiment, consider the allocation of essentials, like oxygen, in the early days. Authoritarian socialism to start? Direct democracy at scale?

    And should we test competing systems in parallel and expand Paul Romer’s charter cites idea to “charter civilizations” with experiments in better governance, as a stepping-stone to farther-flung off-world civilizations.

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