“The idea for The Center was born out of our own company’s challenges in trying to test new and emerging technologies beyond the confines of a sterile lab environment,” Robert H. Brumley, Pegasus Global’s CEO said. “As entrepreneurs, we saw a global need and stepped up to address it. The Center will allow private companies, not for profits, educational institutions and government agencies to test in a unique facility with real world infrastructure, allowing them to better understand the cost and potential limitations of new technologies prior to introduction."
Pegasus Holdings is building a 20 square mile test city in the desert of New Mexico. This is not Celebration, Florida or Brazilia, this is a private Apollo program. The kind ambitious undertaking that seems to reside in the past. It feels like a vestige of the ambition and future oriented thinking of the 60's. You can imagine a James Bond movie unfolding in a similar venue. The city is the greatest and most fruitful human invention and even if this enterprise is flawed, it is just the kind of bold forward-thinking we need. We live in economically depressing times. Gains from trade are exploited, science is eeking out only small improvements, and we face at best interesting times climatically. We should rejoice in this kind of daring. Plus, if it fails, it will make one hell of a place to explore.
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