Post-scarcity/More post-scarcity thinking

• 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