To boldly go toward new frontiers, we first need to learn from our colonial past

Alice Gorman

To boldly go toward new frontiers, we first need to learn from our colonial past

Alice Gorman

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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How should we understand the idea of the frontier in the contemporary world, with spacecraft sailing beyond the solar system and quantum computing taking us deeper into the heart of matter?

Original language	English
Number of pages	5
Specialist publication	The Conversation
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2016

Keywords

Exoplanets
Oceans
Anthropocene
Millennium Project
Digital Divide
Panspermia
Spacecraft
Space exploration
Colonisation
Decolonisation
2001: A Space Odyssey
Carl Sagan
Arthur C. Clarke
Virtual Communities
Proxima b
Peace and security
Global perspectives

UN SDGs

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To boldly go toward new frontiers, we first need to learn from our colonial past

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UN SDGs

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