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Topics that could be added to this wiki

• Open-source governance aka participatory democracy
• Architecture/ housing/ livingry (this is the most obvious thing lacking right now)
• Virtual reality, its applications and the emerging technologies that are enabling it
• Synthetic biology (and biotechnology generally)
  • Making cheap pharmaceuticals
  • Better food
  • Photosynthetic and microbial electricity. Bacteria for producing hydrogen fuel from water.
  • Restore environment (bioremediation). Scrub carbon [1]. Industries that produce toxic chemicals could break them down on-site.
  • Terraforming of Mars. Find extremophile bacteria that could thrive in the Martian atmosphere and temperatures (there are already candidates for this), and engineer/breed them to produce maximal levels of oxygen.

Links

http://www.synergyii.com/

Roadmap to post-scarcity

• Better fabrication technologies, culiminating in the molecular assembler.
  • Somewhere along the way, fabrication technologies will become self-replicating. This is an important disruptive technology, because it takes productivity away from the industrial production-line.
  • As fabrication technologies (including CAD software) become easier to use, they will be used by the general population, not just specialists. An expanded user-base means more people posting free designs online.
• Self-repairing technology cutting humans out of the loop
• The existing free resources (information, software, and free physical goods like freecycling) will steadily grow until many people can live off them