Steven Kotler
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Abundance
Abundance asks whether technology can turn contextual scarcity into broadly shared conditions for possibility, not universal luxury. It traces a chain from exponential tools and cooperation to water, food, energy, learning, health, freedom, and innovation, while testing the access, governance, and safety conditions that determine whether technical promise becomes lived progress.
12 chapters
Bold
Bold examines how exponential technologies and internet-enabled crowds change who can build, fund, and solve problems at global scale. It asks which habits make ambitious action credible, then maps platforms, communities, crowdfunding, and incentive prizes as ways to distribute expertise and risk—while stressing that abundance depends on deliberate, ethical choices.
9 chapters