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The Diamond Age Even more than Star Trek, this novel caused me to think about a post-scarcity world. If we could have anything and everything, what should we d
by iNate2000 10y ago
The Diamond Age
Even more than Star Trek, this novel caused me to think about a post-scarcity world. If we could have anything and everything, what should we do with it?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>If we could have anything and everything, what should we do with it? Really? I always thought of The Diamond Age as being about class conflict and social hierarchy in a partially post-scarcity world.
- db48x 10y agoYea, there'd be less scarcity in that one if it weren't for all the DRM. Possibly a lot more anarchy though. I think the agrarian-nanotech society that Dr X wants would be hard to establish and harder to maintain.
- timmytokyo 10y agoExcellent book about nanotechnology, which is something we don't really seem to hear about much anymore. I remember when it was going to be "the next big thing".
- jbpetersen 10y agoIt's something that has arrived gradually without much fanfare as there don't seem to have been any qualitative leaps forward so far.