4 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American aerospace company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000 — which developed the New Shepard suborbital rocket (tourist flights) and the New Glenn orbital rocket — as a long-term project to enable millions of people to live and work in space.
Australian-American physicist and entrepreneur — former JPL scientist — who writes about space, energy, and technology with unusual analytical depth — co-founder of Terraform Industries (using solar power to produce synthetic natural gas from air).
American entrepreneur who co-founded the XPRIZE Foundation and Singularity University — and whose Abundance and The Future Is Faster Than You Think make the techno-optimist case for exponential technology progress solving humanity's greatest challenges.
Game designer who created the Ultima RPG series (Ultima I through Ultima IX) and became one of the first private space tourists — spending 12 days on the International Space Station in 2008.