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2016 Postmortem

DetlefK

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5. I suggest the sci-fi-novel "Lord of All Things" by Andreas Eschbach

Reply to lostnfound (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 11:17 AM

Dec 2016

A guy has developed a super-technology that will allow anybody to live a life of luxury. Everybody would be equal and no human would ever have to worry about food and shelter again, because they would be for free.

Forever.

But first he needs investors that help him turn his technology into a mass-produced product. And as one of the billionaire-investors asked: Why would he help kick off a technology that would make money meaningless?

http://en.andreaseschbach.com/page11/page12/page12.html

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I suggest the sci-fi-novel "Lord of All Things" by Andreas Eschbach DetlefK Dec 2016 #5

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