Here’s Robert Samuelson’s column in today’s WAPO. And here’s the home page for Abundance, the book that my friend Steve Kotler wrote with Peter Diamandis about a year ago.
What’s really interesting to me is that these two totally opposed word views are merrily co-existing in today’s memeosphere. Because they can’t both be correct…
Or can they?
From Newsweek Magazine, it’s here. My sense is that colleague Tyler Cowen would agree with him and that Peter Diamandis and Steve Kotler would disagree.
My own take is that we are definitely not condemned to reliving the 1930’s and that technology does have the potential to really change things for us in a positive way.
But I’m far from sure that there are engineered solutions to our profound problems and I remain convinced that human beings are flawed enough to really screw things up for the future.
Link is here. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think is Steve’s latest excellent book in collaboration with Peter Diamandis. All I can say is that Steve is an enormously talented author and a great friend–buy his book!
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