Abundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think
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Abundance by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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asimov1
Memberapart from the fact that Abundance soon = utter bullshit , i don't see a problem :-p
enthusiasm sells , but so does the truth
such books will the first to be burned to keep us warm in the winter of the 'very real ' and 'very now' energy descent
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.300 years of never ending recession ( or when fairy tales of abundance give way to reality )
http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/300-years-of-never-ending-recessionA survival guide to the energy descent would be a best seller.
Posted 6 months ago # -
MysticMonkeyGuru
MemberAbundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think?
BULLSHIT.
This book, Abundance, will be as relevant to the future as a fridge is to an eskimo. Which means, utterly freaking useless.
Diamandis and Kotler have constructed a nice doorstop out of mulched trees, filled with fairy stories, lies and bullcrap.
The future is poverty and disease due to the Great Stagnation and energy crisis.
The international banking classes are brutally robbing the global population of their basic rights and needs, and it's only going to get worse.
These crackpots can take their myths of abundance and technological change and shove them up a chimp's bottom.
Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you.
Posted 6 months ago # -
asimov1
Memberthank you MMG ...dare i say brutally honest
at least i have got of my butt , wisedup and started working on stuff to cushion the fall.....we need buckets of wisdom and many hands on the tiller to ride out the storm as best we can. Wishful thinking and inaction just adds to the problem
Posted 6 months ago # -
enforcer
MemberLife After the Oil Crash
Deal with reality, or reality will deal with you.
Have you noticed that that website you cite uses astrology to make predictions? In what way is astrology better than Kurzweil's extrapolations? It isn't! Wake up. Please cite better websites, and not this astrology nonsense. Whatever happened to your critical thinking?
Posted 6 months ago # -
starnois
MemberLOL for MMG using astrology to make predictions. I was wondering how he is so sure the singularity "won't happen for a hundred years".
I'm pretty sure he doesn't even read the articles that he posts here. He just notices that the title is anti-singularity or pessimistic in some way, and then comes rushing to these forums to prove everyone wrong.Posted 6 months ago # -
asimov1
Membermaybe when the world is eating worms they will remember the following phrase
' I TOLD YOU SO '
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tick tock, tick tock what's the price of a kilowatt ?Understanding the energy descent is simple as that
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you are free to go out and buy abundance soonfree to line the pockets of a connman and soothsayer with your hard earned dollars
free to let yourself be exploited by a bookpeddler, just as you are free to by crack or cocaine at the street corner
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every generation has its wars, our war is the energy descent and we are going to losea soft landing is the best we can hope for & work toward, but that wont happen until the world wakes up to reality
'Abundance soon' is the first title that needs to go on the bonfire as it is the biggest socio economic lie out there
reality in a nutshell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQqDS9wGsxQPosted 3 months ago # -
asimov1
MemberYOU ARE HERE: The Oil Journey (Narrated by Peter Coyote)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv2MHEDlXlU&feature=relmfuPosted 3 months ago # -
Spud100
Memberasimov...might you briefly sum up, as you understand it, the cause and effect behind your energy views? Make it short, and cogent, and please no videos. A simple break-down is needed. You don't need to defend it and justify, just make an opening argument...
"we're all doomed because this and this are happening and will happen"
Next--- Has anyone read the book yet? I buy tons of books that over-sell what they actually offer.
Posted 3 months ago # -
JamesG76
MemberLooks interesting, but I'm looking more forward to Drexler's next book, Radical Abundance. Should be one not to miss. Doom and gloomers are just hedging their bets, if things go south they get to say "told you so" if things go as planned, then they get to enjoy abundance as well. I'd be more receptive to their arguments if they promised to off themselves should the singularity happen soon, but that'll never happen. The fact that none of them do, makes their arguments seem cheap and about as interesting to me as the "wisdom" scralled on the wall of public bathroom stall. I mean, since the singularity CAN'T happen soon, what would they have to lose by promising to off themselves if it did...
Posted 3 months ago # -
asimov1
MemberI started a new post Spud100
Understand the energy descent ,( and its impacts in your lifetime)
enthusiasm = propoganda
doomerism = highlighting the elephant in the room
most accounts of the energy descent and peak oil are STILL candy coated as in trying to show a happy ending.....um there isnt one, well not for 300 years until everything has levelled off to a steady energy state that every living generation of that time fully understands the state of play, a state of play embedded in every aspect of culture post 2300AD
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