Slides shared at 100 Year Starship Symposium in Houston, September 19-22, 2013.

1. HOW TO JUMP-START
AN INTERSTELLAR
CIVILIZATION
By Erika Ilves & Tyler Emerson
Prepared for 100YSS Symposium 2013, September 19-22, Houston, USA
Track // Becoming an Interstellar Civilization: Culture, Governance and Ethics

3. Journalist:
What do you think of
Western civilization?
Ghandi:
I think it would be
a good idea.

4. Civilization
is
a cultural infrastructure
designed for continued survival and
evolution of Earth-originating minds
in the universe.

5. Identity Goals Technology Organization
Cultural infrastructure

6. Extensive innovation
Getting from 1 to n
Intensive
innovation
Gettingfrom0to1

7. African
Inter-
continentalPlanetary
Solar
Galactic
Cosmic
Inter-
planetary
Inter-
stellar
Inter-
galactic
extinction risk

8. THE JUMP
Interstellar

9. THE JUMP
$125
trillion
interstellar mission
$65
trillion
world economy

10. THE JUMP
2013 2112

11. THE JUMP
IDENTITY
GOALS
TECHNOLOGY
ORGANIZATION

12. Earthlings
Cosmic citizens
IDENTITY

13. IDENTITY
TIME
All of timeNext 5 years
Universe
SPACE
Earth

14. IDENTITY
TIME
All of timeNext 5 years
Universe
SPACE
Earth
All future
generations
All of us now
CARE
My tribe

15. Earthlings
Cosmic citizens
IDENTITY
Movies
$35B
Games
$67B
Books
$109B

16. INTERSTELLAR ART ACADEMY
ars ad astra
Big History
Existential Risks
Cosmography
Propulsion
Astrobiology
Limits of the Possible
+
Learning from
the Grand
Masters
Film
Writing
Gaming

17. Peace.
Justice.
Prosperity.
Sustainability.
Settle Milky Way.
Seed life.
Find others.
GOALS

18. Peace.
Justice.
Prosperity.
Sustainability.
Settle Milky Way.
Seed life.
Find others.
GOALS
Global
public
discourse
Entre-
preneurs

19. In global policy fora
Thought Experiment:
Going Interstellar as a
Shortcut
to Sustainability, Prosperity,
Peace and Justice
In entrepreneurship fora
Next 100 Years:
The Startups We Really Need

20. Crude energy
Orbital space station
Agriculture & manufacture
Global infrastructure
Global internet
Human life extension
Fusion
Starships
Engineered habitats
Solar system
infrastructure
Galactic internet
Bodies made for space
TECHNOLOGY

21. TECHNOLOGY
Space
$277B
Bio-
tech
$100B
Energy
$6T
Mining
$650B
Planetary Resources
Deep Space Industries
Construction
$4.6T
Organovo
Modern Meadow
Project Persephone
Intel
Google
Paypal Galactic
ICT
$3.6T

22. think
black sky
forget
blue sky

23. INTERPLANETARY
TECHNOLOGY & ECONOMY
ROADMAP
INTERPLANETARY
TECHNOLOGY & ECONOMY
ROADMAP

24. Semi-planetary market
Inter-national governance
Semi-networked knowledge & people
Pan-solar market
Pan-solar governance
Knowledge Civilization
ORGANIZATION

25. Designed by Apple on Earth.
Assembled on Tau Ceti e.

26. Interstellar civilization
is
the Ultimate
Knowledge Society

27. Pan-solar market
Pan-solar governance
Knowledge Civilization
ORGANIZATION
Org-
revolutionaries
Charter cities
Seasteaders
EVE Online

28. IDENTITY
GOALS
TECHNOLOGY
ORGANIZATION
Books
$109B
Space
$277B
Bio-
tech$100B
Energy
$6T
Mining
$650B
Construction
$4.6T
Global public fora
e.g., WEF, Clinton Global Initiative
Entrepreneurship fora
e.g., TED, Skoll World Form
Organization revolutionaries
e.g., EVE Online, Charter Cities
$67B
Games
$35B
Movies
ICT
$3.6T

29. THE JUMP
2013 2112
So who is
going to get all
the balls
rolling?

30. Tau Zero
Icarus Interstellar
100 Year Starship
The British Interplanetary Society
The Institute for Interstellar
Studies
~1,000s of people?

31. We need to turn
into one of these.

32. 1 million
active members
in an epic volunteer organization
that will energize our civilization
towards the stars

33. THE JUMP
Interstellar