Over the last few months, the “abundance manifesto” book has been coming into shape.
Thanks to many useful discussions with supporters of the Transpolitica vision, the book now bears the title “Sustainable Superabundance: A universal transhumanist manifesto for the 2020s and beyond“. The basic framework has evolved through many iterations.
The goal remains that the book will be short (less than 100 pages), easy to read, and contain compelling calls-to-action.
Of the twelve chapter in the book, seven are essentially complete, and the other five are at various stages of preparation.
This list contains links to copies of the chapters that are essentially complete, along with placeholders for links to the remaining chapters:
- Advance!
- Superabundance ahead
- Beyond technology
- Principles and priorities
- Abundant energy
- Abundant food
- Abundant materials
- Abundant health
- Abundant intelligence
- Abundant creativity
- Abundant democracy
- Engage?
For convenience, a more detailed table of contents for the first seven chapters is appended below.
Feedback
Supporters of Transpolitica are invited to read through any parts of this material that catch their attention.
The best way to make comments on the content is via this shared Google document.
Once the book nears publication, a number of existing websites and communities will be restructured, to more usefully coordinate positive concrete action to accelerate the advent of sustainable superabundance.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Detailed table of contents
- Advance!
- Time for action
- Superabundance ahead
- An abundance of energy
- An abundance of food and water
- An abundance of material goods
- An abundance of health and longevity
- An abundance of all-round intelligence
- An abundance of creativity and exploration
- An abundance of collaboration and democracy
- Time for action
- Beyond technology
- Beyond present-day politics
- Beyond present-day democracy
- Beyond lowest common denominator voting
- Beyond right and left
- Beyond the free market
- Beyond corporate financing
- Beyond predetermined exponentials
- Principles and priorities
- Nine core principles
- Technocracy
- Science
- Transhumanism
- Religion
- Singularity
- Exponential urgency
- Technological determinism
- Techno-optimism
- Precaution and proaction
- Diversity and inequality
- Diversity accelerating
- Coexistence
- Human-like minds
- Re-engineering natural ecosystems
- Beyond hubris
- Taking back control
- Abundant energy
- Anticipating climate chaos
- Taking climate seriously
- Technology is not enough
- Steering short-term financials
- A battle of ideas
- Beyond greenwash
- A role for nuclear energy
- A role for geoengineering
- A wider view of environmental issues
- Abundant food
- Population, onward and upward?
- The legacy of Malthus
- Necessity and innovation
- In praise of biochemical innovation
- More waves of innovation ahead
- Towards feeding one hundred billion people
- Risks posed by biochemical innovation
- The move from harm to ruin
- Rapid response
- Beyond the profit motive
- Abundant materials
- Approaching nanotechnology
- Tools that improve tools
- Waves and transitions
- The fabrication of integrated circuits
- 3D and 4D printing
- New materials
- Quantum computing
- Nanomedicine
- Six answers to scarcity
- Risks posed by nanotechnology
- Beyond the profit motive
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