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I truly believe that we are witnessing a transition from a world where scarcity ruled to one where abundance does. You don’t have to take my word for it. Just check out Chris Andreson’s new book Free (embedded below)… it is about exactly that.

Some would argue that it isn’t true. Natural Resources like fossil fuels are scarce. Fresh water is scarce. Arable land is scarce. That is all true.

But consider the world that we are moving in to. Fossil Fuels are energy for the last century. For this century Solar, Wind, and Hydrogen will be our source of energy. Fresh water will present a larger problem but one that we will be able to overcome. Genius minds inventing serious technology are already moving to make that a reality. The problem of a burgeoning population being supported by less and less arable land is a serious issue. But the solution to that lies in the creation of sustainable cities (cities where urban gardens are grown on rooftops) and increasingly effective genetic engineering.

Writing this remind me of a quote by William Gibson

“The future is already here. It just not evenly distributed.”

We are living in an age of abundance. If you are reading this post then you have already experience what I am talking about. Think about the steps that you took to get here. Perhaps you googled something. Which generated a list of a million and one pages of information for you to browse through. And you clicked on a link which just happened to be the link to this article. When you are finished here you will google something else. Or you will follow one of the links that I have placed here in my blog. Or you will spend the next few hours reading Free.

The best part… it is all free.

Information entered an age of abundance with the birth of the internet. But only recently have we begun to see the truly powerful effects that this has and will continue to have on society. It is utterly transformative and we are only at the beginning, but already monoliths of the past in the Music, Film, and Publishing industries have begun to tetter because of it.

As the future becomes more evenly distributed we will continue to see profound changes  in the way our society functions.

I don’t know about you… but I am excited.

FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson