American writer of science fiction literature Isaac Asimov may be known mainly for his mind-bending novels from far future worlds, but he never really abolished his “real world” scientific work neither. Writing tons of articles on many subject during the course of decades of his successful career.
In the video series following this article you can see, that he was a great speaker and political and social evangelist as well. His vision of ”threats to humanity” may be considered really prophetic 20 years after the speech was recorded.
I find the idea of some federal planetary government a bit scary from today’s perspective, but Asimov’s argument about the necessity of great space exploration projects to guarantee international peace just can´t be argued with. We need something to unite humanity in one common endeavour and then we will be more open to settle our arguments in peaceful way, instead of spreading nationalist and religious hatred.
