#postscarcity or bust!

"The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:03:57 -0400

“The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralising. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.”

- Oscar Wilde

Jacque Fresco on Singularity 1 on 1

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:11:00 -0400

Jacque Fresco on Singularity 1 on 1:

Jacque Fresco is a futurist, inventor, social engineer, visionary and technician, best known for the Venus Project.

In his Future By Design documentary about Fresco’s life and ideas, Emmy winning filmmaker William Gazecki called the 97-year-old Jacque “a modern day Da Vinci.” Others have called him “a new Buckminster Fuller.”

Andrew McAfee: The Machines are Coming

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:04:07 -0400

Andrew McAfee: The Machines are Coming

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:40:50 -0400

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.”

- John Berger

Radical Abundance

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:56:00 -0400

Radical Abundance:

K. Eric Drexler is known as the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment.

Already, scientists have constructed prototypes for circuit boards built of millions of precisely arranged atoms. The advent of this kind of atomic precision promises to change the way we make things—cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. It allows us to imagine a world where solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and laptops cost about the same.

(kurzweilai.net)

"It’s time to separate income from work."

Sat, 04 May 2013 04:23:16 -0400

“It’s time to separate income from work.”

- Ted Rall

Singularity or Decline? (by ExplainingTheFuture)

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:54:40 -0400

Singularity or Decline? (by ExplainingTheFuture)

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Fri, 03 May 2013 01:15:57 -0400

Episode #5 “Baby Go Boom!” (Culture In Decline)

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:16:20 -0400

Episode #5 “Baby Go Boom!” (Culture In Decline)

http://techandfacts.com/da-vinci-surgical-system/

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:50:00 -0400

http://techandfacts.com/da-vinci-surgical-system/

A 3d printed shoe from Tridaxis

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:55:59 -0400

A 3d printed shoe from Tridaxis

3D Printing and the Future of Stuff (by scishow)

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:55:23 -0400

3D Printing and the Future of Stuff (by scishow)

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Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:23:10 -0400

Building in Germany Gets Power from Algae (by Buzz60)

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 22:32:20 -0400

Building in Germany Gets Power from Algae (by Buzz60)

If I’d known how many people read books by title only I’d have avoided “The...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:08:22 -0400

If I’d known how many people read books by title only I’d have avoided “The Selfish Gene”. “The Immortal Gene” is better, and equally apt.
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) April 11, 2013

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Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:30:48 -0400

March towards Type1 Civilization

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:03:10 -0400

March towards Type1 Civilization

Why I For One Welcome Our New Robot Underlings

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:49:14 -0400

Why I For One Welcome Our New Robot Underlings:

Imagine a world where the robots did all the work. They tend the crops, sew the clothes, cook the food, drive the trucks, and work on all the assembly lines in all the world’s factories.

In this world, everything would be a lot cheaper because labor costs would drop to zero. In fact, there’d be a startling abundance of stuff. And people would be freed up to do things other than work. We could use our time to explore, create, perform, craft, mingle, and so on because we wouldn’t have to work to produce the necessities or luxuries of life; the robots would be taking care of that.

Robots Invade Restaurants: Here Are Eight of Our Favorites

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:40:43 -0400

Robots Invade Restaurants: Here Are Eight of Our Favorites:

Robotic automation has long been the domain of manufacturing, but of late, service robots have made an often entertaining and sometimes gimmicky leap to restaurants in China, Taiwan, Japan, and increasingly the US.

"Jobs aren’t a viable construct going forward. The notion that most of us will earn our living in the..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:07:56 -0400

“Jobs aren’t a viable construct going forward. The notion that most of us will earn our living in the future through an employee/employer relationship is headed for the scrap heap of economic history.”

- Dave Maney