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Abundance the future is better than you think

Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge. This is a book about how people rise to meet that challenge. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic road map for governments, industry, and entrepreneurs, giving people plenty of reason for optimism.

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  • "Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge. This is a book about how people rise to meet that challenge. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic road map for governments, industry, and entrepreneurs, giving people plenty of reason for optimism."
  • "Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge. This is a book about how people rise to meet that challenge. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic road map for governments, industry, and entrepreneurs, giving people plenty of reason for optimism."@en
  • "The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism."
  • "We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing-fast. The authors document how four forces-exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion-are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic road map for governments, industry, and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism."@en
  • "We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions of people. This book is an antidote to pessimism by tech entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler. Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing -- fast. Diamandis and Kotler document how four forces are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. Abundance establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic road map for governments, industry, and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism."@en
  • "Proposes that the current exponential progress of technology in certain fields will allow us to easily provide for the needs of all people within the near future, and profiles some of today's most promising advances toward that end."@en
  • "Proposes that the current exponential progress of technology in certain fields will allow us to easily provide for the needs of all people within the near future, and profiles some of today's most promising advances toward that end."
  • "Providing abundance is humanity's grandest challenge; this is a book about how we rise to meet that challenge."@en

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