Technology Quarterly | The role of robots
Construction and destruction
It’s not what you launch, it’s what you do with it
ON EARTH, valuable assets are serviced, upgraded and recycled; they are also protected and, now and then, attacked. None of this is yet happening in space. But all of it could.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Construction and destruction”
From the August 27th 2016 edition
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