You want Gundam? This is how you get Gundam.
Jeff Bezos in San Diego: To Save Planet, ‘Move All Heavy Industry into Space’https://timesofsandiego.com/tech/2019/1 ... nto-space/And when I say "you get Gundam", that includes
fanatics who want to force
all human life into space in order to keep the Earth as a sacred preserve.
But seriously, it's inevitable. Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, and others are successfully commercializing space travel and eliminating the government bottleneck, and we will have the rest of the basics — skyhooks
*, inflatable habitats, asteroid mining, microwave and/or laser transmission of power — within the century.
* Space elevators are the old standard, but skyhooks achieve the same thing with much less up-front cost. We might graduate from skyhooks to elevators some time later.