Shipping and Space are the New Oil and Gas for Alaska

The future of the Alaskan economy is not in oil, gas, or mining. While these will always be mainstays, they are on their way out like commercial fishing was fifty years ago. The current and long-term geopolitical and economic trend Alaskan legislators and business leaders need to be looking at is in space and the opening of Arctic shipping lanes, tipping the low conflict zone of the High North into a high conflict zone. How can we dominate it? What investments do we need to make in infrastructure, higher education,  and strategic planning so that we can dominate this new, but not Last, Frontier?