Posthuman Blues

The Final Capitalist Frontier

"'The solar system is like a giant grocery store,' said Peter Diamandis, founder and president of the Ansari X Prize Foundation, who as an MIT student in 1980 created the SEDS organization. 'It has everything we could possibly want.'"

The Earth, meanwhile, is beginning to resemble a second-rate mom-and-pop outfit with a big firecone-red "CLOSING" sign across the windows and roaches in the corners.

Hey, is that mold on the produce?