A growing chorus of technologists and futurists now argue that scarcity is ending. The future may be post-old-scarcity but it will not be post-scarcity.

S ome years ago, an academic friend fell under the spell of Angela Duckworth’s work on grit. Hearing her argument only secondhand, I initially found it militaristic and anti-creative. Now, having ...

Bitcoin is obviously scarce. And it seems to be becoming scarcer over time. But, perhaps due to the current bull run, doubts about both of these propositions are seemingly on the rise among bitcoin ...

Perception plays a huge role in how we experience the world around us. In other words, through the lens of scarcity, we might think that there’s never enough for everyone, there’s no opportunity, and ...

How well equipped are we as a civilization to overcome resource scarcity in the future? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

One of the most alluring dreams in science fiction is the post-scarcity society — a place or time where nobody goes without, because technology has improved. But when you dig deeper, most ...

Ram Charan is a counsellor to CEOs and a terse writer of business books that capture the important issues managers are – or should be – grappling with. In his latest book, Global Tilt, he begins not ...

Economics is the study of how we use our limited resources (time, money, etc.) to achieve our goals. This definition refers to physical scarcity. In a recent book titled Scarcity, Mullainathan & Eldar ...