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- Framtiden är oviss
- Imagine what the world might be like if we were really good at making things – better things – cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. What if ultra-efficient solar arrays cost no more to make than cardboard and aluminum foil and laptop computers cost about the same? Now add ultra-efficient vehicles, lighting, and the entire behind-the-scenes infrastructure of an industrial civilization, all made at low cost and delivered and operated with a zero carbon footprint.
If we were that good at making things, the global prospect would be, not scarcity, but unprecedented abundance – radical, transformative, and sustainable abundance. We would be able to produce radically more of what people want and at a radically lower cost – in every sense of the word, both economic and environmental.
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Imagine a world where the gadgets and goods that run our society are produced not in a far-flung supply chain of industrial facilities, but in compact, even desktop-scale machines. Imagine replacing an enormous automobile factory and all of its multi-million dollar equipment with a garage-sized facility that can assemble cars from inexpensive, microscopic parts, with production times measured in minutes. Then imagine that the technologies that can make these visions real are emerging – under many names, behind the scenes, with a long road still ahead, yet moving surprisingly fast. (s ix-x)