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The well known "Overview Effect" idea was first inspired by science fiction. "Back in the 1970s I found Gerard K. O’Neill's ideas highly convincing. I had an epiphany: those living in a space community would have an “overview” of Earth. They would see a whole system, interconnected and interrelated"


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