This may be how Jeff Bezos will control his Amazon empire once he blasts himself into orbit (or goes to Mars):
An astronaut has successfully controlled a robot on Earth with micrometer precision, despite being 400km up and travelling at speeds of 28,800km/h.
Andreas Mogensen, the first Dane in space, used a feedback system to "feel" what he was doing 400km away. He commanded the Interact Centaur rover in real-time, using a joystick to drive it around before taking control of its robotic arm to place a peg into a hole on a circuit board.
You can read the rest @
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/08/interact-centaur-robot-controlled-from-space
If you want to know what is likely to happen, watch the James Bond movie "Moonraker". A Hugo Drax-like oligarch (Bezos, Musk, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg ???) is going to shuttle his rich pals into space and then kill us all.
It's the only viable solution to Earth's current problems, all of which can be traced to the out-of-control human population.
Update - Here is another author who more or less agrees with my observations:
What if the mega-rich just want rocket ships to escape the Earth they destroy?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/mega-rich-rocket-ships-escape-earth
You know we're right. Trust the rich at your own peril; they all are firm believers in dog-eat-dog social Darwinism.
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