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- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … But the vast majority - and I realise I'm being inflammatory here - say, around 99% - don't live in a post-scarcity economy. A post-scarcity economy works …
- IP and the Federation; A Thousand Digital Hubs In Your Pocket; Your Server Recommends … in a post-scarcity replicator world of the Federation, the thing that's still scarce is attention. And, well, if Riker wants to play submissive in the latest …
- Policy is strategy, mumble videogames … It's about halfway down, after the post explains a) what NFTs are, and b) what the effect of the policy will be on people, and after a …
- The Internet Of Your Economic System Of Choice; Little Red Spot; Stuck … Indeed right on the table."[3] My anecdata-based thoroughly unresearched reckon about how we get from here (globalised capitalism in a highly un-distributed pre-post-scarcity …
- The OODA loop … I posted a throwaway comment a while back that I think you could understand what humans would do in a post-scarcity environment by just looking around at …
- Station Ident; Snow Crashing 2; Computers, AMIRITE?; A Book on your Face … That despite what the elites on the coasts of America might say, the middle of America is quite happy posting cat pictures and re-posts of memes or …
- Yes, And... … How do you terraform new systems? Do you terraform the market economy and capitalism and slowly convert it into a post-scarcity society? How would you terraform a …
- Allies; How Does This Even; Maximum Happy Imagination … Only, in the utopian post-scarcity world, for some reason, capitalism remains and we're still talking about "democratic capitalism to the Nth degree". It feels like an …
- Battlesuits; Simulations and Puppyslugs; Scratchpad … There's a slight argument, I suppose, that some people live in a comfortable enough post-scarcity and secure environment where they've got the ability to do …
- Vestigial; Unions; Weird; and Snow Crashing - Chapter 15, part 2 … Say we achieve, somehow, an idyllic future where we're post-scarcity, or there's enough post scarcity (yeah, doesn't make sense, I know), and wealth is …
- Words and how to use them to achieve and convey your intended effect and meaning? … favorite multi-decade conglomerate-owned multi-platform science fiction franchises exploring a utopian post-scarcity future. Snap . Words, huh? "Tech, amirite?" There's a bunch of stuff going …
- Human Extinction; Let There Be Jobs … boot up a post-capitalist but still firmly-rooted-in-scarcity society only, you know, not Thiel's seasteading institute. The other kind. [1] Will You Lose Your …
- Better Days … the invisible hand, what better is there? Even when we write about utopian, post-scarcity galaxy-spanning cultures with a capital Culture, there's still not that much …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … For what it's worth, it's unclear whether we'll ever get to a utopian, Star Trek-ian post scarcity economy, or whether we'll find a …
- Rate All The Things … Banks' wonderful post-scarcity Culture, along with Star Trek, and on the other hand we have Elysium, Moon, Total Recall, Robocop, and Fifth Element. Instead of dropping products …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … In the end, Schmidt appears to be grasping for some sort of post-scarcity Star Trek utopia, but doesn't realize that the embarrassment of riches he's …
- Anything But The Internet: Shakespeare; Stupid Mental Health Walks; You Can Just Ask For What You Deserve … with jobs suitable for fuckups -- feels like the product and result of a post-scarcity utopian society. In another episode, one character exclaims: "You can just ask for …
- End of Process … 1] to human organizations and management[2] and process to automation to a post-scarcity universe where humans still have an important job to do because they're …
- What is it like to be a PlayStation: Software Defined Brands; Gerrymandering Autocorrect … There was a Washington Post story with insiders who are anonymous in exchange for the info etc but validated that as soon as Trump got in all rules …
- Technology is a tool and we have choices to make as a society; It’s magic … very brief aside here, I posted somewhere that you can look around and see what people would do in a post-scarcity society because they’re doing it …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … That's the post-scarcity argument: that at some magical point in the future, someone flicks a switch and everything becomes free. Not that we live through an …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … Oh no, the Federation is a post-scarcity society and we have technology called replicato- ALIEN: OK what’s the password? PICARD: Ah yes. The password is “infinite …
- For want of a screenless MP3 player … You’re screwed because people like money and people who make things like money and that’s totally fine because we don’t live in a post-scarcity …
- What’s the target? … Everything is connected, of course, so even though I’d been studiously ignoring reading Wired UK’s piece about Stripe , it all came back via a Metafilter post …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … It's not a post-scarcity society. There are still jobs in Starfleet. They just all happen to be knowledge-worker jobs. Tobias Revell's closing keynote had …