At least Sam is more nuanced than the journos: "could be" instead of "will". I can't see how's he's envious of today's grads except for being 22 years old.
I do wish I could at least downvote these kind of low effort stories.
Man, I have got to get me some of whatever these billionaire tech geeks are injecting.
The human mind is unique in what it is capable of given all other known incidence of intelligent life, and this phenomenon deserves something just as cosmically grand as its state of cosmic improbability.
To start, since we don’t have good life support systems yet or a good understanding of how to mitigate the adverse effects of being out in space for prolonged periods of time, maybe we need more remote sensing and communication programs.
Remote control of automated building systems would be ideal so that you don’t need to transport life support systems, but maybe just their materials before a human ever steps out onto a planet.
Besides that, reusable nuclear launch vehicles would make interstellar travel and transport more energy efficient. To add to that, since chances of event failure are never zero for nuclear reactors, it would make sense to create methodologies which speed up removal of radiation and ionizing materials from the environment.
Ideally, water is transported from a non-Earth planet which has ice, and we can geo-engineer Earth-like conditions for planetary water recycling.
But maybe our current physiology can only survive best on Earth, so venturing to other planets would be for non-residential purposes, like having data centers and crypto-miners on other planets.
Honestly, a lot of the work for being in space needs to be done at home first. So maybe, the next frontier is not space (yet) but somewhere like Antarctica where a lot of this can be tested before being put to use.
