A review by iggymcmuffin
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Steven Kotler, Peter H. Diamandis

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In which the author argues that technophilanthropists, inventors, and entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezo will save the word by doing what we’re already doing by relying almost exclusively on the testimony of those same technophilanthropists, inventors, and entrepreneurs. Also selling stuff the world’s poorest billion. And almost every real world example of abundance creation which author cited has turned out to be a pipe dream. One example was a company town in Middle East (Masdar City: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-14/the-reality-of-abu-dhabi-s-unfinished-utopia) that was supposed to be the green carbon neutral city of the future. The project was proposed and never went anywhere. Another example is Theranos (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020116/theranos-fallen-unicorn.asp), which has turned out to be a complete fraud.

I get that there’s a market for books saying everything is fine, keep the status quo... but ugh.