>> These goal would likely not even make much sense to me anymore, or be completely irrelevant in today’s world.
They won't have a choice in destination. The challenge will be maintaining an orderly society on the ship. If that life is all they have then they'll have to deal with it. If they have books, video, or VR of like on a planet they might have any number of reactions...
How do you train the people who will be necessary to do the work once you get there, when they can’t get practical experience and they are learning from people who have none, who learned from people who have none?
I don’t think we can do it without ansibles, or cryosleep. Or very, very advanced AI who still want to hang around with humans.
They won't have a choice in destination. The challenge will be maintaining an orderly society on the ship. If that life is all they have then they'll have to deal with it. If they have books, video, or VR of like on a planet they might have any number of reactions...