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* '''Marshall T. Savage''' - Author of ''[http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-Eight/dp/0316771635/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251836768&sr=8-1 The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in eight easy steps]''. Many abundance concepts covered using known technology in this interesting take on the steps required to feasibly colonise space | * '''Marshall T. Savage''' - Author of ''[http://www.amazon.com/Millennial-Project-Colonizing-Galaxy-Eight/dp/0316771635/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251836768&sr=8-1 The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in eight easy steps]''. Many abundance concepts covered using known technology in this interesting take on the steps required to feasibly colonise space | ||
* {{wp|Rob_Levin|'''Robert Levin'''}} - ''[http://www.openverse.com/~dtinker/agalmics.html Agalmics]'', an essay on the marginalization of scarcity | * {{wp|Rob_Levin|'''Robert Levin'''}} - ''[http://www.openverse.com/~dtinker/agalmics.html Agalmics]'', an essay on the marginalization of scarcity | ||
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- Jacque Fresco
- The Venus Project. Visionary designer and engineer. See also Future by Design which is a documentary film about Jacque. He is an advocate of a 'Resource-based economy'.
- Buckminster Fuller - Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI.org). Visionary designer and engineer.
- "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 (2007 update here) and prophet of molecular nanotechnology. He describes molecular assemblers as "engines of abundance". (NB: advanced molecular nanotechnology is not actually required to realise post-scarcity which can be based on macro-scale technology that exists already.)
- 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
- Marshall T. Savage - Author of The Millenial Project: Colonizing the Galaxy in eight easy steps. Many abundance concepts covered using known technology in this interesting take on the steps required to feasibly colonise space
- Robert Levin - Agalmics, an essay on the marginalization of scarcity
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