We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term future, where exponentially growing technologies and three other powerful forces are conspiring to better the lives of billions… An antidote to pessimism…” (link)

“Generally humanity hates change. We love waking up in morning and knowing that the world is the same way it was the night before.. But, what’s really going on is that the rate of change is moving so rapidly that there is the seeds of revolution being planted in all kinds of ways…

“Whether it’s robots that’ll be coming online that can displace massive numbers of jobs, or artificial intelligence coming online that can displace jobs or create new opportunities, whatever it might be, huge change coming that people don’t like. So that’s the resistance that people have to the predictions being made, because if they’re true, it disrupts their comfortable way of living.” (link)