Understanding Scarcity and Post-Scarcity
It’s frustrating when people insist we are already living in a Post-Scarcity civilization.
Category: Abundance
Why haven’t robots taken our jobs?
You’ve probably noticed the trend. The doomsayers are yelling once more. They are telling us that technology poses a threat to human employment — that the robots are coming for our jobs. This is a thesis that has been defended...
Fear of Artificial Intelligence is Rather Pathetic
Do you fear babies? Then don’t fear AGI-. Should babies fear you? Then don’t fear AGI+.
Can GMO Foods End World Hunger?
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people on earth – don’t have enough food to lead a healthy active life.
Video Friday: Buckminster Fuller 1974
Buckminster Fuller on new ideas for man to survive, advance, design our world, and move forward.
Exponential Medicine and Digital Healthcare — Nitish Kannan interviews astronaut Dr. Dan Barry, anti-aging scientist Aubrey De Grey and investor Vinod Khosla.
Nitish Kannan interviews astronaut Dr. Dan Barry, anti-aging scientist Aubrey De Grey and investor Vinod Khosla at the recent Exponential Medicine conference.
Transhumanists Help Out Orphanage
Transhumanist organizations and writers are collaborating with religious and humanitarian groups to feed, educate and make self-sufficient twenty children at a “boarding school” (orphanage) in Jinja, the second-largest city in Uganda.
Synthetic Meat — Passes Taste Tests, But Still Five Years Away from Commercial Availability
Modern Meadow believes that increasing livestock herds is not the answer. There is a better way and our London hamburger taste test of last year is showing us the way. Growing meat from stem cells cultures at an industrial scale is the answer.
Rowbot Robot Tends to Farmers’ Fields
No part of our highly technological economy today is free of being rethought by applying automation in the form of robots.