Awesome Post Scarcity

A curated list of awesome Post-Scarcity links, books and resources.

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Table of Contents

• General
• Economics
  • Universal Basic Income
• Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Asteroid Mining and Space Tech
  • Self Replication and Nanotechnology
  • 3d Printing

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General

• [Book] Post-Scarcity Anarchism - Description of an economic system based on social ecology, libertarian municipalism, and an abundance of fundamental resources.
• [Fiction Books] The Culture Series - Scifi series, in post-scarcity and space-faring society.
• [Blog Post] A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Society - An actionable roadmap to post-scarcity and the role of automation in the process.
• [Blog Post] Moore's Law for Everything - A US-centric proposal to redistribute AI benefits.
• [Wiki] adciv.org - Post-Scarcity Wiki, gives an accessible overview of the field.
• [Forum] Reddit Post-Scarcity
• [Video] Post Scarcity Civilizations - Broad exploration of how a post scarcity civilization could look like.

Economics

• [Book] The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is the Key to an Abundant Future
• [Book] Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Universal Basic Income

• [Website] Ubi Research - UBI Research is a think tank built to examine the merits and possible implementations of a UBI.

Technology

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

• [Website] Artificial General Intelligence - A gentle introduction - Overview of AGI research.
• [Website] AI Impacts - Dedicated to answering decision-relevant questions about the future of AI. Notable for the visualization of tech and AI-related historic trends and timelines.
• [Book] The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology - Classic book on exponential progress.
• [Book] Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• [Book] Singularity Hypotheses - AI singularity scenarios.

Asteroid Mining and Space Tech

• [Book] Asteroid Mining 101
• [Book] Space Mining and Manufacturing: Off-World Resources and Revolutionary Engineering Techniques

Self Replication and Nanotechnology

• [Book] Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines - This book offers a general review of the voluminous theoretical and experimental literature pertaining to physical self-replicating systems and self-replication.
• [Book] Engines of Creation - Classic Nanotechnology Book.

3d Printing

• [Project] RepRap - General-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.

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