{"id":14880,"date":"2017-09-07T12:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14880"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:13:29","slug":"space-studies-institute-giving-away-kindle-versions-of-gerard-k-oneills-2081-and-the-high-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14880","title":{"rendered":"Space Studies Institute giving away Kindle versions of Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a0‘2081’\u00a0and\u00a0‘The High Frontier’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The late Princeton physics professor\u00a0Gerard K. O\u2019Neill<\/a>\u00a0was a major influence on many space development activists and entrepreneurs. For example, as O’Neill advocated, Jeff Bezos sees millions of people living in large in-space colonies and heavy industries moved off earth and into space:\u00a0Jeff Bezos blue origin calls for a dynamic entrepreneurial space – CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n

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“The Stanford Torus \u2013 This space habitat design resulted from a NASA-Ames\/Stanford University summer study. It\u2019s a wheel 1.1 miles in diameter.” More space colony artwork.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Space Studies Institute <\/a>was founded by O’Neill and this week is offering free Kindle versions of two of O’Neill’s books:<\/p>\n

** Right Now 2081 and The High Frontier are FREE | Space Studies Institute<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

We broke the news yesterday for SSI Associates to get their jump start and now it\u2019s open for everyone:<\/p>\n

For a limited time The Space Studies Institute is giving away the Kindle editions of Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a02081<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>\u00a0for free!<\/em><\/p>\n

2081<\/strong>, an amazing look at the future rising around us, and\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>,\u00a0the\u00a0<\/em>cornerstone book of the NewSpace generation, are both regularly priced at $6.99 USD but right now they are \u00a0online around the planet for free download from the Amazon.com websites and Kindle stores.<\/p>\n

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SSI President Gary C Hudson shows the evolution of reading\u2026 as predicted in the book 2081<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For details on\u00a02081<\/strong>, just jump down to the previous\u00a0SSI Blog post<\/a>and as for\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>, well, if you haven\u2019t heard of it then it\u2019s time you laid the right foundation in your Space education.<\/p>\n

Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>\u00a0is a landmark book. \u00a0A stunning, readable\u00a0treatise.<\/p>\n

Space is the place where there are no limits \u00a0and where benefits to ALL of Humanity \u2013 everywhere \u2013 are free for the using with no need to harm anyone.<\/p>\n

Sound far fetched? Sound naively Utopian and absolutely unachievable? Until a person actually reads\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>\u00a0for themselves, they should be careful about jumping to conclusions.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>, Princeton Nuclear Physicist Gerard K. O\u2019Neill asks the famous question:<\/p>\n

\u201cIs a planetary surface, any planetary surface,
\nreally the best place for an expanding technological civilization?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And then he systematically looks at what it means for a civilization to expand, what such a civilization truly needs for real positive growth, and finds that all of those requirements and more are in no way out of reach.<\/p>\n

Professor O\u2019Neill makes this book of real science and real technology readable by most everyone by using\u00a0fascinating \u201cLetters From Space\u201d followed by clear explanations of the hows\u00a0and whys. \u00a0O\u2019Neill was a world-renowned scientist but he had the gift to make even the most technical information completely understandable.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never personally read\u00a02081<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>, you are in for a truly amazing experience. If you haven\u2019t read\u00a0them\u00a0in a while then now is a great\u00a0time to refresh\u00a0your memories!<\/p>\n

To get your free copies, log into your Amazon.com account using your web browser or start the Kindle Store in your Kindle app or device to search for the \u201cO\u2019Neill Kindle 2081\u2033 and \u201cO\u2019Neill Kindle The High\u00a0Frontier\u201d<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Read on your Android, iOS or Windows Phone while in line at the grocery then pick up where you left off while relaxing at home with your tablet then start right up again on your Kindle Fire, Voyager or DX and even steal a few minutes at work using the Kindle program on your full Mac or Windows PC.<\/p>\n

Pass the word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Space Studies Institute\u00a0is giving away the Kindle editions of Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a02081<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The High Frontier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Twitter the news, Blog it, Facebook it, email it, spread the word and do it today!<\/p>\n

** Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s 2081 is now an SSI Kindle Book! | Space Studies Institute<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s hopeful book of the human future, 2081, is now an SSI Kindle release!<\/p>\n

What is 2081?<\/p>\n

Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u2019s\u00a0The High Frontier<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a classic of the Space Industry. World famous,\u00a0it has been called \u201cthe book that launched a thousand Space careers.\u201d 2081 may be\u00a0lesser known but, believe us, it is no less fascinating or important. Here is the description we have put on the Kindle edition Amazon page:<\/em><\/p>\n

E Ink slate tablets instead of paper books, grocery stores that let you check out without stopping for a cashier, instant as-needed delivery of any item by intelligent systems, electric cars that go where you tell them without your having to pay attention, super-fast and silent underground public transportation that people actually enjoy riding, whole communities enjoying island climates in the middle of snowy winters, working from home with all of the human interaction of going to a job, carts that politely follow you carrying your loads and ready to guide you when you\u2019ve lost your way, houses that listen and are always ready to answer any question or organize any part of your life, cheap energy to fuel every device without adding to the carbon, heat or disposal issues of fossil and nuclear fuels. This is your world in 2081.<\/p>\n

Princeton Nuclear Physicist Gerard K. O\u2019Neill, most famous for revolutionizing high energy physics labs and particle accelerators with his invention of Storage Ring technologies, and for his view of the potential for thousands of regular people to enjoy satisfying and productive jobs and lives in Space, looked back at the history of looking forward, looked at the realities of where we were in 1981 and envisioned, logically, how regular people would be living in the year 2081. Some of the gadgets and infrastructure that he thought would take a hundred years are with us already, others are in the news today as being right around the corner and some are just waiting for smart people to understand the need for them and make them real parts of our daily lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is in four parts. In the first, \u2018The Art of Prophecy,\u2019 we\u2019ll explore in a pragmatic way the lessons that can be learned from the colorful history of earlier attempts at predicting the future. In the second, \u2018The Drivers of Change,\u2019 I\u2019ll describe five developments that I believe will determine, alone and in combination, the course of the next hundred years. In the third part, \u2018Life in 2081,\u2019 I invite you to join me in a tour through the world in which our great-grandchildren will just be at their prime. In the fourth part, \u2018Wild Cards,\u2019 we\u2019ll explore the most exciting developments of a century from now that are just at the limits of possibility \u2013 and some that are, perhaps, well beyond those limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an exciting future that I\u2019m predicting, even more different from the late twentieth-century than our own time is from 1881. Some people may be frightened rather than attracted by the prospect of so much change still to come. But we need not be afraid if we approach the future armed with understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a responsibility beyond mere curiosity to learn as much about the future as we can, because we must choose those actions that will insure not only the survival of humanity, but an improvement in its condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gerard K. O\u2019Neill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The late Princeton physics professor\u00a0Gerard K. O\u2019Neill\u00a0was a major influence on many space development activists and entrepreneurs. For example, as O’Neill advocated, Jeff Bezos sees millions of people living in large in-space colonies and heavy industries moved off earth and into space:\u00a0Jeff Bezos blue origin calls for a dynamic entrepreneurial space – CNBC The Space … Continue reading Space Studies Institute giving away Kindle versions of Gerard K. 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