2052-The Hawking Plan

<b>Stephanie Goldenrod strives to save human life and civilization for an infinite future. Amorality and amore punctuate deep ethical and philosophical issues.</b> <p></p><p> Life, liberty and technology several decades in the future.</p> <ul> <li>A peaceful world. </li><li>Dominated and ruled by transnational corporations. </li><li>Reason trusted and religion suspect. </li><li>A "positive ID" regime where religion-based terrorism has been suppressed, along with virtually all anonymity and privacy. </li><li>A post global warming world where humanity has been decimated by genetic engineering disasters. </li><li>A population served by Intelligent Robotic Agents, certified intelligent at the average human level. </li></ul> <p></p><p><b>A brilliant plan to spread human life and civilization far and wide into space as insurance against further disasters here on Earth.</b></p>