So there’s water on the moon. This alters the cost-benefit calculation required to live there and exploit some of the valuable He-3 dusted all over the surface. Of course, where there is a race for space resources, there will also be orbital pirates. Now accepting applications for space pirate crew. Post your qualifications in the comments. You will be paid monthly in @sg (20 points if you can tell me which vintage SF work this currency is from).

Serious considerations of the future are probably much more banal; why is all-or-nothing apocalypticism so seductive as a narrative? These pictures (Aqualta by Studio Lindfors) evoke the notion that the world will change, and people will adapt. Regardless of how strange things get, chances are the privileged will still take out mortgages, watch futbal, and go to work (though perhaps in gondolas… beautiful lantern lit gondolas):