Not so. Our future is so bright we both need to wear shades. We just have to get big government out of the frickin' way. Besides Diamandis's book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, I also recommend George Gilder's latest, Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capiltalism and How it is Revolutionizing Our World. Both books provide hope that America's experiment with Obamunism will be erased, with much greater things to come.
The technological door of opportunity is huge. We just have to pry it open.
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Another good ebook on this subject is
Collapsing Water and Energy Costs: How Bill Gates [Or You!] Can Create the Inventions That Spark the Next Industrial and Agricultural Revolution
This ebook was written two summers ago. So far two of its recommendations have been followed. The first is that
Bill Gates team at Terrapower take an interest in lftr Thorium reactors--which they did last year. The second is that an oil company take an interest in lftr thorium reactors. In this case
shell oil created an investors contest and sat on the panel that judged that an MIT lftr company called Transatomic had the best technology.
Collapsing Water and Energy Costs makes several more major recommendations and many minor ones--which by the look of it, will likely be followed in the next several years.