What Will a Post Scarcity World Look Like?

”A world where no child goes to bed hungry and there are no poor people.” A paraphrase of how Gene Roddenberry described the future Earth of “Star Trek: The Next Generation." Some futurists think we may actually be getting close to producing something close in the real world. 3D printer technology is already moving manufacturing of many products from the factory into the home and will do so even more as the technology is perfected and costs come down. Many predict that this technology will, eventually, merge with the ability of the scanning tunneling electron microscope to move individual atoms. An atomic scale printers capacity to create will be limited only by the availability of the correct raw materials, the power supply, and having a pattern to work with.
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