• Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future
• Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony – The greatest thought experiment of all time!
• The Second Intelligent Species – How Humans will become as irrelevant as cockroaches
• Basic Income – Why and How Should We Build a Basic Income for Every Citizen?
• How to Make a Million Dollars
• Introduction to “Getting a Good Job in America”
• How to turn your idea into a successful product
• How to Raise Money from Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists
• Consulting, Speaking, Coaching and Interviews
• My experiences with the Dukan diet – I lost 52 pounds
• The Day You Discard Your Body
• Marshall Brain’s How To Collection
• Raleigh – City of the Future
• A Letter to President Obama
• Careful Parents
• Teaching your kids to write computer programs – Learn to write Python programs
• My Son That He Is A Geek
• Time Capsule Video Project
• Quitting Nicotine Forever
• Star Wars
• Mission to Mars
• Science on the Brain
• How much does a dog really cost?
• About Marshall Brain

Mars Colony Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1 – Elon Musk Makes His Big Announcement about the Mars Colony
• Chapter 2 – The Many Thought Experiments that Mars Inspires
• Chapter 3 – Why Do We Need a New Socio-Economic-Political System on Mars?
• Chapter 4 – Imagining a New and Much Better Socio-Economic-Political System for the Mars Colony
• Chapter 5 – What Happens When We Add a Massive Amount of Farm Automation to the Mars Colony?
• Chapter 6 – How Will the Mars Colony Produce its Clothing?
• Chapter 7 – How Will Housing Work for the Mars Colony?
• Chapter 8 – How Will the Mars Colonists Construct Their Housing?
• Chapter 9 – How do we provide other services like water, sanitation, police force, fire department, health care, etc. for the Mars Colony?
• Chapter 10 – What might a typical “work week” look like on Mars? Who gets a free ride on Mars? Who will do the undesirable jobs on Mars?
• Chapter 11 – What do we do with lazy people on Mars? What do we do with the assholes?
• Chapter 12 – How would insurance work on Mars? Yes, insurance…
• Chapter 13 – How will we make chips on Mars? Pharmaceuticals? Medical devices? “Stuff”? Will Mars be an actual backup plan for humanity?
• Chapter 14 – What Will the Transportation System on Mars Look Like for Mars Colonists?
• Chapter 15 – What will the political system look like? How will it be organized?
• Chapter 16 – Building Experimental Cities on Earth Today to Find the Optimal Configuration for the Mars Colony
• Chapter 17 – How can we apply the Mars colony’s principles to the billions of refugees and impoverished people on planet Earth today?
• Chapter 18 – How will entertainment work on Mars? What types of entertainment will be available for Mars colonists?
• Chapter 19 – How will children work on Mars? Who gets to have children? What is the colony’s stance toward children?
• Chapter 20 – Starting the process of building experimental Mars colonies on Earth – Mars Colony Simulation 1000A
• Chapter 21 – Can the economic system proposed for the Mars colony significantly improve the Welfare situation in the United States?
• Chapter 22 – How much land will the Mars colony need?
• Chapter 23 – Thought Experiment: What If Everyone Makes the Same Wage?
• Chapter 24 – How Will Innovation Work on Mars?
• Chapter 25 – Will there be advertising on Mars?
• Chapter 26 – What should be the ultimate goal of the Mars colony?
• Appendix A – Restaurants
• Interviews with Marshall Brain on the Mars Colony:
  • Inside the Rift, The Second Intelligent Species: Marshall Brain on Jobs, Mars, and Technology
  • “Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know” Podcast, Moving to Mars with Marshall Brain
  • “The State of Entrepreneurship” Podcast, Entrepreneurship and Mars
  • Institute for Emerging Issues, First in Future Podcast, Parts 1 and 2
• See also:
  • Links about The Elon Musk Mars Colony
  • Links about The Concentration of Wealth
  • Links about Robot advances and the second intelligent species

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More Jobs Articles

Easy directory of all of Marshall Brain’s Jobs-related blog posts:

1. Introduction to “Getting a Good Job in America”
2. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 2 – How do you gain skills?
3. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 3 – Newsweek weighs in with 19 jobs
4. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 4 – Driving a Truck
5. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 5 – Information Technology (IT) and Cybersecurity jobs
6. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 6 – Google Career Certificates
7. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 7 – Becoming an Engineer
8. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 8 – Making the most of entry-level sales jobs
9. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 9 – Jobs to Avoid
10. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 10 – Medical jobs like Nurse Practitioner
11. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 11 – Electrical Lineworker
12. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 12 – Software Developer and “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 12.1 – Software Developer
13. “Getting a Good Job in America” Part 13 – Cybersecurity

Robotic Nation Table of Contents

• Robotic Nation
• Robots in 2015
• Robotic Freedom
• Robotic Nation FAQ
• $25,000 per person
• Tell Your Friends
• Corporate Example – Enron
• Understanding Occupy Wall Street

Million Dollar Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Easy ways to make a million
• Save $5 a day
• Start a business
• Entrepreneurs
• Three important quotes
• Understanding the quotes
• How America works
• Examples from my Life
• More examples
• Getting yourself in motion
• How to Raise Money from Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists
• How to turn your ideas into successful products

Raising Money Table Contents

• Chapter 1 – Introduction
• Chapter 2 – Understanding the types of investors
• Chapter 3 – The importance of your management team
• Chapter 4 – Step 1: Find a point of entry
• Chapter 5 – Step 2: Apply
• Chapter 6 – Step 3: Presenting
• Chapter 7 – Step 4: Due Diligence
• Chapter 8 – Step 5: Term Sheets and Closing
• Chapter 9 – Quick Recap of the Steps
• How to Make a Million Dollars
• How to turn your ideas into successful products

Second Intelligent Species Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – The Origin and State of the First Intelligent Species
• Chapter 2 – The Rise of the Second Intelligent Species
• Chapter 3 – Why is this happening?
• Chapter 4 – The Aborted Trucker Riots
• Chapter 5 – How Computer Vision Systems will Destroy Jobs
• Chapter 6 – The Inevitable Concentration of Wealth
• Chapter 7 – Solving the Near-term Unemployment Problem with the Basic Income
• Chapter 8 – Perpetual vacation vs welfare dormitories
• Chapter 9 – The Three Laws and the Rise of Robotic Morality
• Chapter 10 – Why aren’t there any Extraterrestrials? (Solution to Fermi Paradox)

Discard Your Body Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 – Is our science fiction right?
• Chapter 2 – Your fragile body
• Chapter 3 – The power of beauty
• Chapter 4 – Other traps that your body creates
• Chapter 5 – Saving Christopher Reeve, and you
• Chapter 6 – The pull of video games
• Chapter 7 – The problem with video games
• Chapter 8 – Understanding Vertebrane
• Chapter 9 – Experiencing the in-game world
• Chapter 10 – A fateful call from Clarissa
• Chapter 11 – The proliferation of game worlds
• Chapter 12 – The lure of porn
• Chapter 13 – Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
• Chapter 14 – The day you discard your body
• Chapter 15 – Who will be first?
• A Revolutionary Mission to Mars
• Imagining Elon Musk’s Million-Person Mars Colony

Dukan Table of Contents

• My Dukan Diet Experience (I lost 52 pounds on this diet)
• How much does the Dukan Diet cost per day?
• Very cool calculator for calculating your specific dietary needs – Protein, carbs, fat, vitamins, etc.
• Fasting and Fasting diets – Four different ways to try a fasting diet
• Good question – what is your “ideal weight” if you want to be healthy?
• What can you do when you “get stuck” at some weight plateau on the Dukan diet (or any diet)
• Drew Carey loses 80 pounds with a no-carb diet
• How does your appearance change when you become obese?
• How does your appearance change when you become obese?
• Would you like to lose weight? Video shows the latest science on what works and what doesn’t
• This has got to be the easiest dieting/weight loss tip ever: drink more water
• How to make Greek yogurt at home and cut your yogurt costs in half
• I made half a gallon of Greek yogurt this weekend – talk about cheap and easy! And Tasty!
• All the dire warnings I have gotten about the Dukan diet have turned out to be wrong
• What if everything that we are taught about carbs is actually propaganda?
• How Carbohydrates Don’t Work – in fact, carbs are probably causing the obesity epidemic. If you are overweight, it is probably the carbs
• Why do we feel like we are entitled to carbs? That we cannot live without them?
• Today I officially reached the “50.0 pounds lost” milestone on my Dukan Diet weight loss journey, and you can too

More Economic Thought Questions

• What if we doubled the minimum wage?
• What if everyone received minimum wage?
• What if we scaled fines and taxes with income?
• Why do we hide wholesale prices?
• What if we eliminated Landfills?

Python Table of Contents

• Tutorial 1 – Getting started – creating output from a computer program
• Tutorial 2 – Adding input to a computer program
• Tutorial 3 – The coin flip simulator and random numbers
• Tutorial 4 – Functions and comments
• Tutorial 5 – The dice simulator – lists in Python

• Teaching your kids how to write computer programs

Star Wars Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Slide 1
• Slide 2
• Slide 3
• Slide 4
• Slide 5
• Slide 6
• Slide 7

Other House Ideas

• A different way to build a house #24 – The Future of Houses, The House of the Future
• A different way to build a house #25 – The Passive House
• A different way to build a house #26 – John Travolta’s Airplane House
• A different way to build a house #27 – The Sliding House
• A different way to build a house #28 – floating houses
• A different way to build a house #29 – The folding home
• A different way to build a house #30 – Billionaires’ Homes
• A different way to build a house #31 – Concrete House
• A different way to build a house #32 – Capsule Apartments
• A different way to build a house #33 – Prefab Duplex
• A different way to build a house #34 – bridge house
• A different way to build a house #35 – Tiny houses
• A different way to build a house #36 – Zero-energy and Triple-zero-houses
• A different way to build a house #37 – Build a house that is really thin
• A different way to build a house #38 – Foam and steel construction makes a quick, inexpensive, super-efficient house
• A different way to build a house #40 – The capsule
• A different way to build a house #41 – The ultra-secure house
• A different way to build a house #42: Print it
• A Different Way to Build a House #43: Add Secret Passages and Hidden Rooms to your house!
• A different way to build a house #44 – Display your finest car in the living room
• A different way to build a house #45 – Build yourself an Earthship for an ultra-sustainable green lifestyle
• A different way to build a house #46 – How to add an elevator to your home
• A different way to build a house #47 – underground and able to ride out “the apocalypse”
• A different way to build a house #48 – design your own house like an architect
• A different way to build a house #49 – A tiny apartment with moving walls becomes 24 different spaces
• A different way to build a house #50 – Build yourself a Ninja house, or add Ninja features to an existing home
• A different way to build a house #51 – An inexpensive home using recycled wood and natural materials
• A different way to build a house #52 – The flat pack house
• A different way to build a house #53 – inexpensive housing for the developing world
• A different way to build a house #54 – Log homes
• A different way to build a house #55 – Lustron homes – Amazing steel prefabs from 1950
• A different way to build a house #56 – Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion pre-fab house from the 1930s
• A different way to build a house #57 – Using an RV as a home
• A different way to build a house #58 – Virginia Tech’s LumenHaus
• A different way to build a house #59 – Making the most of small apartment spaces
• A different way to build a house #60 – Building custom houses from laser-cut plywood
• A different way to build a house #61 – Building a house for $3,500
• A Different Way To Build a House #62 – Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) construction
• A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 1,000 square foot 2-bedroom apartment shrunk into 420 square feet
• A different way to build a house #64 – Fitting your whole life in a 90 square foot apartment
• How to build your own automatic Star Trek door for your home
• How to build an underground fallout shelter to ride out the apocalypse
• The $300 House competition
• Free Boat Plans
• How to live in your car