A greater world is possible! Adriano V. Autino presents his book

“A greater world is possible!” represents a deep reflection about the state of civilization, some possible futures and the deep moral implications of the great choices that civilization has to make. Very often such choices are driven by the evolution of social and international relationships, rather than by a reasoned and motivated rationale. There is a big difference between United States and Europe in the perception of outer space, as an area of possible expansion. However, even where this discussion is far more advanced, it is hard to overcome the old paradigm of space exploration for its own sake, which has characterized the strategy of the world’s largest and most advanced space agency, NASA. So much so that even NASA has often found itself needing to reinvent communication strategies, aimed at not losing the public funding necessary for its survival. “Before properly understanding the mechanisms that determined this state of affairs for so long,” says the author, “I was always shocked and speechless when facing these manifestations of what I thought to be a cultural inconsistency. Why not state clearly that, should we not expand into space within this century, our civilization would be prematurely terminated? Why not acknowledge that the expansion beyond the limits of our mother planet is an absolute and vital necessity for a civilization that will soon exceed eight billion individuals? The multiple reasons for such a failure, for not accepting the agencies’ main mission are political, economic and military. They are philosophical as well, deeply rooted in the pre-Copernican paradigm of the “closed world”. These justifications have become clearer to me, thanks to a patient work of research and informative discussion with other space enthusiasts, and thanks to that great resource developed over the last thirty years: the global network. However, the main aim of this work is not to denounce those responsible for a very regrettable delay of half a century, but rather to put together, in a coherent and integrated way, the deeply moral reasons of a finally maturely expansionist strategy.”

Adriano Vittorio Autino, born in Moncrivello (VC, Italia), is co-founder and former President of the Space Renaissance Initiative, since 2010 Space Renaissance International (SRI), an inter-cultural non-profit association, whose mission is the opening of the space frontier: low-cost access to space, space tourism, industrialization of the geo-lunar space, use of near Earth asteroids, and the full development of space economy. Adriano is dimplomed in Industrial Electronics, acting since 1971 as a software and system engineer, then project manager and entrepreneur in the field of real-time automation systems. His insatiable curiosity and the desire to engage in frontier fields have led him to work in the aerospace environment, and to devise and develop an integrated software system, supporting the systems engineering and the project lifecycle management processes. Adriano authored and co-authored several books, papers and articles on the theme of civilization expansion into the outer space.

A complete list of publications can be seen here https://spacerenaissance.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/AVA_BIO_2022.pdf, and here https://spacerenaissance.space/documents/papers-fragments/

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