Could Humans Actually Build A Dyson Sphere? | Answers With Joe

Frankly, I find the Dyson Sphere, qua concept, crudely mechanistic. There is in it less of elegant deduction/reduction than of obstinate, pig-headed materialism. Imagine, just, a Galactic Internet. Try. Yes, it would/could have material consequences, but what would these be?--Try and wrap your head around a Galactic Google: the algorythm of a really universal search engine.

You see, what we're talking about is what we suppose there is, of its own force, an evolutionary growth of civilization/technology which will attain at some point the capacity for travel throughout the visible universe, conveniently within the lifetimes of those who will travel in it--and, if they wish, may return home from. The model for this sort of thing is of course Sir Francis Drake: The eminently successful piracy, the concerts of fine music and dancing while circumnavigating the world, the knighting by the Queen (for the 36,000 fold return on her investment).