A post-scarcity civilization would have to be the most uber-capitalist society that ever existed for it to last more than 5 years. It just so happens that we’re living in a post-scarcity civilization – and the lack of capitalism is destroying us.

(Note: we’d also have to be ‘above capitalism’, or above consumerism at least – post-scarcity also collapses when people work 60 hours a week to buy toys they don’t need or enjoy, just to impress their neighbours).

That, and we might be reaching the limits of what the human brain can do here.

A people with a little fusion reactor and a replicator in the basement would be truly free and very much decentralized.
It would maybe look like communism at first glance. But no elite´s goon/commisair in his right mind would try to raise taxes or check for the partybook of such a man.

Of course this needs a total reset of especially the minds of man.
Pretty much everybody you meet today would just stay in his side of the fishtank if presented with such a radical concept.

Not a planet full of Googlglass9000 wearing yuppies flying lensflare spaceships. All the while the fukken wimminz phone operator is giving the first Officer lip then attitude followed by even more ´tude.

Though it´s a bit out of place here, why not come to the forum( http://men-going-their-own-way.net ) and post a thread there.

Star Trek, though – any time I hear some berk claim that Star Trek was based upon ‘actual science’ (having a physics undergrad fill in blank parts of the script with sciencey words is not science), or that it predicted technology, I want to punch said berk in the throat.

I suppose all aliens are bipedal, and we’ll be able to breed with them, too?

Star Trek is fantasy, pure and simple, with a less worked-out rule system than the magic in D&D. It’s fine if you approach it as that, but these middling-IQ ‘geniuses’ need to insist that it’s hard science fiction.