{"id":3787,"date":"2012-04-21T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3787"},"modified":"2012-04-21T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T05:10:39","slug":"why-our-future-will-be-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/why-our-future-will-be-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Our Future Will be Amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/041912_0731_WhyOurFutur1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"515\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ronald Bailey had the chance to sit down with the authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1451614217\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=centives-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1451614217&amp;adid=0F7WWKT0P8R6S6K5TKQ1&amp;\"><em>Abundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think<\/em><\/a>. Some of the things they talked about included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our future looks set to be pretty amazing with technology improving the standard of living for everybody.<\/li>\n<li>The reason why we&#8217;re so often pessimistic and afraid of the future is because we&#8217;ve evolutionary evolved to be scared and focus on negative information.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>There are three tiers of challenges that have to be overcome before we enter a period of global abundance. They are:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Water, food, and shelter.<\/li>\n<li>Energy, education, and information.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom and healthcare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Luckily the solutions to these problems multiply \u2013 providing clean water, for example, helps solve a lot of diseases.<\/li>\n<li>Technology spreads exponentially. From being a luxury product in the 90s, there are 5.6 billion mobile phones in the world today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read about the way to overcome the three tiers of obstacles, a take on the Green Revolution, and the role that entrepreneurship has to play, click <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/07\/a-more-better-future\/print\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2012\/02\/07\/a-more-better-future\/print\">Reason<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2012\/03\/the-future-may-be-better-than-we-think.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Bailey had the chance to sit down with the authors of Abundance: Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think. Some of the things they talked about included: Our future looks set to be pretty amazing with technology improving the standard of living for everybody. The reason why we&#8217;re so often pessimistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/041912_0731_WhyOurFutur1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3787\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}