The so-called space issue of The MIT Technology Review goes on and on about the fifty years after Apollo 11, but it leaves me cold on the key question behind space exploration: colonization. In fact, the main article in the issue for July and August of this year argues that space technology has changed the earth. And the earth is on its way to hell, to put it mildly. Climate change and environmental degradation, not to mention the ensuing wars connected with the twain, are left unmentioned. World War III is shunned from cover to cover, as well. Returning to colonization of space, it is the one and only viable reason behind space exploration. Indeed, there is no other way for the human species to survive its own shenanigans besides the search for other viable habitats, of which there must be many in the vast universe that surrounds the species’ cradle. No matter the distance to be covered, leaving the cradle is a must. Many colonizers could not but perish in the quest, but some may well flourish. The greater their number, the greater the chance for the human species to make it till the end of the universe itself. Sadly, the last issue of the MIT’s magazine of innovation has nothing to offer on colonization. By now, the topic is relegated to science fiction, a literary genre of growing appeal. For better or worse, science fiction is not taught at MIT, either.