Fundamental resources/Intro

So what have we got to work with? Mankind's fundamental resources are material, energy, intelligence and information. In reality they are all so enormously abundant that it's incredible to think that there are people in this world who are still going without the basic human necessities.

In the past a lack of technology could be considered a significant cause of scarcity but that is certainly not a reason any more. It is the way that we currently employ our resources that is inefficient and wasteful – there is no actual lack of material or energy available to us. Current financial mechanisms tend to encourage artificial scarcity and create friction which is the major reason that resources might appear restricted or limited; however emerging methods of co-operation and advanced automation have the potential to unlock them for the benefit of all.