[arethuza]

That would make an interesting answer to the Fermi paradox - nobody is travelling because everyone stays at home to perform PoW calculations in a dyson cloud. Which does rather remind me of Accelerando by Charlie Stross - maybe Economics 2.0 used by the vile offspring is a giant PoW scheme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando

[dave_sullivan]

There's a paper that talked about this quite a bit and is very interesting: https://www.accelerating.org/articles/transcensionhypothesis

Accelerando is great btw