The Coming of the New Space Age
OVER THE NEXT DECADE OR TWO, A ROBUST NEWSPACE INDUSTRY, PARTNERED WITH NATIONAL SPACE PROGRAMS, WILL CREATE A NEW SPACE AGE, LEADING TO A SPACE-FARING, MULTI-PLANETARY CIVILIZATION, WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY BRING PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY INTO OUR CULTURE.
World Benefits of NewSpace & Its Timeline
THE NEWSPACE INDUSTRY TOUTS MULTIPLE TANGIBLE RESOURCES AND VALUE THAT EXPANSION INTO SPACE WILL BRING TO THE WORLD THROUGH MOON AND MARS MINING, SPACE SOLAR POWER, ZERO-GRAVITY MANUFACTURING, MILLIONS OF SPACE INDUSTRY JOBS, AND MORE. HOWEVER, NEARLY ALL OF THESE TANGIBLE BENEFITS, AS POTENTIALLY REAL AS THEY ARE, ARE MORE THAN A DECADE AWAY AT WORLD-SCALE.
The Coming World Challenges of This Decade – And Their Timeline
BUT CURRENT CRISES, ESPECIALLY GLOBAL CLIMATE WARMING AND CHANGE, AND THE HUMANITARIAN AND POLITICAL CHALLENGES THEY WILL BRING, ARE RUSHING AT US MUCH FASTER AND MAY WELL REACH UNRECOVERABLE TIPPING POINTS BEFORE THE END OF THIS DECADE. FOR THIS REASON, MANY LEADING WORLD-CHANGE ADVOCATES (THOSE WORKING ON SOLUTIONS TO GLOBAL CRISES) OFTEN SEE SPACE PROGRAMS AS DIVERSIONS OF RESOURCES AND ATTENTION, BETTER DIRECTED TO EARTH-BASED SOLUTIONS.
Overview/ Planetary Research
PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY, INDUCED IN SOME ASTRONAUTS BY THEIR SPACE EXPERIENCE, CAN BE BEST UNDERSTOOD THROUGH COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RESEARCH MODELS WHICH EXPLAIN THE WORLDVIEW AND PARADIGM-SHIFTING CORE OF THE EXPERIENCE. IDENTIFYING THE SPECIFIC SENSORY CUES THAT TRIGGER THE OVERVIEW EFFECT, AND THOSE THAT LEAD TO VISCERAL PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY WILL ALLOW MORE EFFECTIVE FLIGHT PREPARATION AND POST-FLIGHT ENHANCEMENT, AS WELL AS ELEVATING THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE VALUE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRAVEL. IT WILL ALSO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF IMMERSIVE SPACE MEDIA EXPERIENCES MORE CLOSELY MODELING ACTUAL SPACE EXPERIENCES, POTENTIALLY BRINGING THESE COGNITIVE CHANGES IN WORLDVIEW AND IDENTIFICATION TO MILLIONS OF EARTH-BOUND CITIZENS. FINALLY, IT WILL PROVIDE WORLD-CHANGE LEADERS WITH POWERFUL NEW TOOLS AND CONCEPTS FOR BRINGING PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTIFICATION INTO EFFORTS TO SOLVE WORLD-SCALE CHALLENGES.
Bringing Planetary Awareness and Identity into the Culture
THIS COGNITIVE SCIENCE MODEL, INCORPORATED INTO AESTHETICALLY CREATED SCIENCE EDUCATION MEDIA, AS WELL AS VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF OVERVIEW/PLANETARY-THEMED DOCUMENTARIES AND MOVIES, CAN BRING THE REALITY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLANETARY IDENTITY, AS WELL AS THE WORLDVIEW SHIFTING VALUE OF THE NEW SPACE AGE, INTO THE CULTURE.
Creating a Research-Based Model of the Space Experience for the NewSpace Industry
PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY, INDUCED IN SOME ASTRONAUTS BY THEIR SPACE EXPERIENCE, CAN BE BEST UNDERSTOOD THROUGH COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RESEARCH MODELS WHICH EXPLAIN THE WORLDVIEW AND PARADIGM-SHIFTING CORE OF THE EXPERIENCE. IDENTIFYING THE SPECIFIC SENSORY CUES THAT TRIGGER THE OVERVIEW EFFECT, AND THOSE THAT LEAD TO VISCERAL PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY WILL ALLOW MORE EFFECTIVE FLIGHT PREPARATION AND POST-FLIGHT ENHANCEMENT, AS WELL AS ELEVATING THE PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF THE VALUE OF COMMERCIAL SPACE TRAVEL. IT WILL ALSO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF IMMERSIVE SPACE MEDIA EXPERIENCES MORE CLOSELY MODELING ACTUAL SPACE EXPERIENCES, POTENTIALLY BRINGING THESE COGNITIVE CHANGES IN WORLDVIEW AND IDENTIFICATION TO MILLIONS OF EARTH-BOUND CITIZENS. FINALLY, IT WILL PROVIDE WORLD-CHANGE LEADERS WITH POWERFUL NEW TOOLS AND CONCEPTS FOR BRINGING PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTIFICATION INTO EFFORTS TO SOLVE WORLD-SCALE CHALLENGES.
How Advanced Simulation Media Can Bring Planetary Identity to the World
THIS COGNITIVE MODEL, COUPLED WITH MEDIA THEORY, ALSO EXPLAINS THE LIMITATIONS OF CONVENTIONAL MEDIA TO COMMUNICATE OVERVIEW EFFECT, LESSENING THE DEGREE OF PLANETARY AWARENESS AND IDENTITY CONVEYED THROUGH IT. THE MODEL ALSO SUPPORTS CONCEPTS AND TECHNIQUES FOR USING ADVANCED SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY TO OVERCOME THESE BARRIERS.
