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Not even close. Our present culture is conditioned by centuries of scarcity that with our current technical capabilities ought to have disappeared by now.
However automation is set to explode in terms of sophistication and capability, and at the same time we are developing ever more efficient ways of collaborating and openly sharing knowledge. This means it will become increasingly unacceptable to let needless scarcity continue in the face of what is possible. New tools and thinking are emerging that could change everything.
Via the internet a new fluid grouping of minds is evolving that is adhoc, distributed, mutually sharing and potentially vastly more effective at problem solving and creative technical development than anything we have seen before. It is a new enlightenment. In some areas, notably software development and knowledge gathering, it is well under way – but this is just the beginning. These 'open' peer-to-peer activities are about to burst out into the physical world enabling us to do things both technologically and socially that were not previously possible.
At adciv.org we are exploring the emerging possibilities, focusing on concepts to take us to the next phase of civilisation which should be an ecologically sympathetic post-scarcity age where knowledge and tools are freely shared. It might sound far-fetched to the uninitiated but it's absolutely within our reach. This new era is coming at a rapid pace, so you might want to prepare yourself...
