Re: How to get Post-Scarcity?
- From: DJensen <i_m0nk@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:37:31 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 26, 2:02 pm, Remus Shepherd <re...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm mulling the concept of a post-scarcity world that has *not* undergone
a technological singularity. That is, I want a world with plentiful energy
for all purposes, and enough freely available manufactured goods to satisfy
every human being's needs or desires. But I do not want to get there via
superintelligent AIs or dramatic changes in the human phenotype. People are
still human, and humans are still in control, they just have everything they
want.
....
The engineering challenges are incredible, but there isn't much about a
post-scarcity world that seems limited by science. Now if I want a story
out of this, I have to figure out how it would warp society...
I'm sure I'm not the only one, or the first, who read this and thought
removing a large part of the human population would make this pretty
achievable. 6.5 billion people living like New Yorkers can't last that
long, but what about 150 million people?
--
DJensen
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