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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 do with it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age

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>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.

Yea, 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.

Excellent 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".

It's something that has arrived gradually without much fanfare as there don't seem to have been any qualitative leaps forward so far.

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