 
From: watpod62@ccs.carleton.ca (George Bragg)
Message-Id: <9204012221.AA00359.359@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca>
Subject: Time period
To: +dist+~js9b/Public/camc.dl@andrew.cmu.edu
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 92 17:21:56 EST

In a message earlier today, somebody (I forget who, sorry) asked about
a time sequence for a cyber-community type thing like we've been
discussing in the past.

The problem is, he's thinking on a 20-year scale, by which time most
people are starting to think about retirement.  It seems to me that
one of these communities must be set up fairly quickly, while the
persons involved are still young and willing to take risks and put up
with hardships.

Therefore, I think we should be examining the feasability along a
five-year plan, instead of a twenty-year plan, with initial settling
of the site not more than three years from the date the plan starts.
By initial settling I mean the "set-up" party which would lay the
foundations for the community, survey the land, etc.

My suggested schedule, then, is something like:

Year one: find land.

Year two: find financial backing (as neccessary) and candidates for
citizenship.

Year three: Send out initial party, screen citizenship candidates
(this _is_ neccessary, if we don't want, say, twelve anthropologists
and nobody who can run a hydroponic garden.).  Purchase of building
materials.

Year four: construction of complex, purchasing of supplies.

Year five: Main population moves in.


What do people think?  Should we be moving on a scale of twenty years,
or five years?  Or five months?  :)

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