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Jacque Fresco - The Venus Project (and Future by Design which is a documentary film about Jacque)

Buckminster Fuller - Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI.org) "It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival."

Eric Drexler - Author of Engines of Creation and prophet of molecular nanotechnology. He describes molecular assemblers as "engines of abundance". However the nanotechnology he describes is not actually required to create a post-scarcity society.

John McCarthy - Prominent computer scientist. He has some interesting information on his website about the sustainability of human progress.

Marshall Brain - the 'Australia project' in the story of Manna. Marshall is the founder of HowStuffWorks.com

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	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29 '''John McCarthy'''] - Prominent computer scientist. He has some interesting information on his website about the [http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress sustainability of human progress].		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29 '''John McCarthy'''] - Prominent computer scientist. He has some interesting information on his website about the [http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress sustainability of human progress].

−	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain '''Marshall Brain'''] - the 'Australia project' in the story of ''[http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm Manna]''. Marshall is the founder of [http://www.howstuffworks.com HowStuffWorks.com]	+	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Brain '''Marshall Brain'''] - the 'Australia project' in the story of ''[http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm Manna]''. Marshall is the founder of [http://www.howstuffworks.com ''HowStuffWorks.com'']