Is there Anyone Out There and Does It Matter?
TREND #5
Residents of the OECD who grew up with a steady diet of Star Trek and Stars Wars intellectually acknowledge that these are just contemporary fantasy. They recognize that Klingons and Jedi Knights are no more “real” than Hobbits and Orcs. And just as research on the paranormal is marginalized and privately funded, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (or SETI) operates mostly at the fringes of main.....