Ending the Age of Scarcity

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By Nafeez Ahmed, Director of Global Research Communications at RethinkX: The energy, transport, food, information, and materials sectors are all undergoing rapid technological disruption.

Each of the five foundational sectors that together define a civilization – energy, transport, food, information, and materials – is undergoing rapid technological disruption. These upheavals signal the twilight of today’s dominant extractive industries, which are entering an economic death spiral, auguring higher unemployment, deeper inequality, and civil unrest.