If the "Space Race" continued would the world look like "Tomorrowland" or "EPCOT"?

[KnightInShiningArmorDis92]

I see all this amazing tech emerging like "Vertical Farming", "Lab Grown Meat", "Fusion Power", "Fully Reusable Rockets", and "3D Printed Houses" that are resistant to wildfires and could be built faster and cheaper than traditional housing.

And that makes me wonder what our world be like today if the 1960s space race continued or if the Cold War superpowers chose to invest in science rather than war.

I heard the 1960 space race gave birth to modern computing.

https://www.fastcompany.com/9036275...to-modern-computing-and-gets-no-credit-for-it

If the space race continued past 1972(last Apollo Mission) would we have more advanced computers, more advanced smartphones, more advance movie CGI, more advanced video game consoles, and more advanced "AI"?

Would electric cars show up earlier(Through tech from making crewed Moon and Mars rovers)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQkz0aRDe8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqKGREZs6-w

Would 3D Printer technology have advanced faster and we would see 3D Printed houses in the 2000s or early 2010s?

Would we get vertical farming and lab grown meat(Got to keep finding better ways of feeding astronauts on missions deeper into the solar system) earlier?

Would we get better solar power and nuclear power from Moon and Mars bases(Since they are further from the Sun than Earth solar power wouldn't work too well)?

Would we get better batteries?

https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/na...esearch-exceeds-initial-goals-draws-interest/

Perhaps that would be something that would be useful in creating a better future.

I heard that nuclear powered rockets could get people to Mars faster than regular rockets and that NASA was test firing a nuclear powered rocket in the Nevada desert but Nixon cancelled it due to the Soviets not going to the Moon or Mars with humans.

Kim Kardashian actually brought attention to it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...rnia-community-impacted-nuclear-meltdown.html

I wish Hollywood celebrities would inspire young Americans to at least think about science and technology again.

Would there be asteroid mining by the 90s or 2000s?

Would we get "Laser Communications" earlier? A few years ago NASA launched something called "LCRD" and it sounds like something out of a sci fi movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es5qqfMTwT8

If a longer space race did give us electric cars, vertical farming(traditional farming requires fertilizer which is made in polluting petrochemical plants), asteroid mining, and better solar power as well as nuclear power then the world of today would at least be a less polluted world.

Imagine a world where "Cancer Alley" did not grow or was even diminished or phased out altogether.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCT6BO7wlDs

Imagine a world where "Cattle" had better lives lowering the chance of bird flu and mad cow disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVfTPaxRwk

 

[citruscurtis]

In reading this over and over and minimal topic research... I think what you are asking is to change our behaviors... which happened in WW2 with victory gardens and recycling and resourceful behavior... and being told what to do by authoritive mandates
For example... building houses in combustible environments..who does that???...and the California fire demonstration of houses still standing.. have to be destroyed because of the advancement technology spreading toxic smoke

The greatest generation... great depression/WW2..had enough of practically and passed the attitude to baby boomers... don't let any entity tell you how to live... still going to eat beef... still going to purchase... still going to NASCAR .. still going to drive to work rather than ride a monorail , Subway or train...why.. I will drive 1 person to the airport 3 hours away rather than inconvenient them to ride a shuttle

 

[Praying Colonel]

There's a series on Apple TV+ called "For All Mankind" that posits an alternate reality where the Soviets land on the moon first and the Cold War continues. The Moon and Mars are big parts of it. Highly recommend: