Expansion of humanity in space: Utopia or dystopia?

Abstract

As humanity progresses as a civilization, sooner or later it will have to venture into the establishment of off-Earth colonies. When that happens it will raise the challenge of what kind of society we want for those contexts. Will the future of humanity in space be more akin to a utopia or a dystopia? Will we become a multiplanetary and interplanetary humanity without having solved some of our most fundamental problems as a society here on Earth? Should we place all our hopes only on the technological progress we develop? This chapter addresses the astrobioethics issue of what the future may hold for us as we expand into the universe.