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Greetings ! My name's Joe and I live in Los Angeles, California. I'm a 45, married and have 3 wonderful kids. I work at a Jesuit university and work as a facilities administrator. I've always been interested in science, but majored in liberal arts and public administration. I regret not taking more science and more of the hard classes. Mathematics opens the door for so many other disciplines.
I was a ham radio and electronics nut in high school in the early 70's. Information about computers was scarce to nonexistent, even in libraries. I do recall reading about Bill Gates and his software in Popular Electronics. This was 1975 or so and he was probably 19 or so. I knew he was on to something. After coming out of college I discovered a computer revolution was in the making ! In 1973 or so, I was the first kid in my high school to have a calculator. It blew people away ! Within a year or two they were a $5 item. In November 1983 I purchased a IBM PCjr and spent the next 48 playing FlightSim!
I'm optimistic that my children's generation will solve many of our civilization's challenges. New transportation modes, viable energy generation, and space age building materials will mesh with so many other scientific and engineering advances to help restore a viable and healthy planet home for all.
Social issues will be the major challenges. We will need to learn and teach, to heal and nurture to reverse the widespread diseases of ignorance, violence, hate, addictions, depressions, etc.
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The idea of interstellar space travel sounds great, but the distances involved are staggering. Unless we make major discoveries in physics that change things, radio or optical communications are the only feasible means of communications or contact and these type of programs would seem the logical place to start. We know of about 2600 stars within 25 lightyears of us, so electromagnetics will have to be our primary tool. We will have to play in our own sandboxes but hopefully we can still communicate among sandboxes. I have no knowledge of quantum physics so I could be all wrong.
Hopefully in this process we will have received and decoded the first stream of messages sent 100 lightyears ago by our nearby neighbors. Perhaps we will receive a life boat of technologies from our good neighbors and be asked to relay copies of the life boat along to stars in each direction and return the favor. Working as a bucket brigade we will send small but intelligent ripples in all directions.
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