What futuristic job would you be willing to do?

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Dammit, which Heinlein book was that? I want to say Beyond this Horizon but it's been so long since I Heinlein binged...

Reminds me of the movie Gattaca.

 

[Kramodlog]

I may have to talk you out of that. At $1000 an hour.

HS needs to be exorcised out of EE.

 

[WayneLigon]

Dammit, which Heinlein book was that? I want to say Beyond this Horizon but it's been so long since I Heinlein binged...

I haven't the slightest idea -- I know Friday dealt with genetically enhanced people. It's an idea you find in a lot of modern SF. We should be doing that in about 25 years or so.

 

[WayneLigon]

Ice Miner - going out to the Belt and looking for that perfect gigaton chunk of ice and volatiles, put a low-yield engine on it and aim it back to the inner system, either for space colony water and fuel, or for terraformers to drop onto Mars.

Postmortist - psychoanalyst for people translated to AI-space, still dealing with a traumatic death or lingering pre-death issues. The flip side of this is a Resurrectionist, for people translated back to a physical body from AI-space or their backup.

 

[Zombie_Babies]

CL4PTRAP!

 

[Klirshon]

I may have to talk you out of that. At $1000 an hour.

Once the machinations of an ideology begins to gain a metaphorical inertia, it becomes increasingly difficult to halt.