Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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Larry Niven
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About Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven is an American science fiction writer. His 1970 novel Ringworld won the Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards. With Jerry Pournelle he wrote The Mote in God's Eye (1974) and Lucifer's Hammer (1977). The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America gave him the 2015 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Larry NivenIn hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.