Post-scarcity/More post-scarcity thinking

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"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 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg - Author of Engines of Creation (v2.0 update: [1] - currently US only) and prophet of molecular nanotechnology. He describes molecular assemblers 11px-Wikipedia_logo.jpg as "engines of abundance". (However the advanced nanotechnology he describes is not actually a requirement in the development of a post-scarcity society).