Chris Boette
newschematic.org/now
“Instead of sending literal tons of mass to orbit to use as a countweight for the rotating skyhook, what would it take to collect debris in orbit to use instead? Like a low-earth orbit Katamari ball.”
Location:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Professional title:
senior software engineer
What do you do?
I wonder.
Why?
I wonder because I want everything to be better, and am trying to figure out how. While, of course, considering negative externalities.
What should we read?
"The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" by M. Mitchell Waldrop