Official Blog of the Network Theory Applied Research Institute

Earth benefits from technologies, social innovations, and perspectives developed for space challenges. Space settlements gain from Earth's established knowledge, cultural richness, and resource base.

This analysis examines US tariff strategy through the lens of network theory, revealing how tariffs function as mechanisms that modify connection strengths, information flows, and feedback loops within international commerce.

You've seen it in sci-fi movies and games: barren Martian landscapes transformed into lush habitable worlds, or devastated Earth environments restored to natural beauty. This concept of reshaping planets to suit human needs — terraforming — has captured our imagination for decades. But what if the real future of planetary development isn't about engineering environments alone, but about engineering how we work together across an entire world?