10.29.2003
"The problem with abundance"
From Globetechnology:
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What do traffic jams, obesity and spam have in common?Obvious ideas once they are laid out in front of you, but not necessarily obvious ahead of time. Think "long-term effects" from "short-term actions".
They are all problems caused by abundance in a world more attuned to scarcity. By achieving the goal of abundance, technology renders the natural checks and balances of scarcity obsolete.... {snip}
Any technology which creates abundance poses problems for any process which existed to benefit from scarcity.
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