New Spaces

Humans never ceased to redefine how they use the spaces around them. Every wave of progress was driven by a certain type of territorial expansion. Renaissance and the Age of Discovery were driven by sea navigation. The Industrial Revolution was driven by fluvial navigation, mining and rail. The Oil age came with roads and thermic vehicles. Globalization came with sea cargos and the massification of aerial transportation, and the Age of Information came with space satellites.

Around 15% of the world's land area has ever been modified by humans. A majority of the seas, oceans and deserts remain untouched. Space is a vastly unexplored area. How information moves, how energy travels, what resources are transformed will always be fundamental boundaries on human expansion.

Technologies that expand spatial reach generally serve the purpose of:

1. Increasing the amount of available resources
2. Increasing the speed at which resources can travel
3. Decreasing the cost of getting 1. or 2.

They require in order to work:

1. A way to perceive, map and monitor their territory, their physical constraints and evolution over time.
2. A way to access and move into their territory.
3. A way to maintain their capacities in absence of external energy supply.

• Subsea Energy Production Infrastructure
• Autonomous Ocean Robots
• Solar Farms in Deserts
• Autonomous Solar Farm Robots
• Mining Potential Detection Software and Hardware