K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology—the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. [...]

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Frank Whittemore on January 20th, 2013

Click here to access the article found on the Next Big Future website. Click here to access “Abundance – The Ted Talk” by Peter Diamandis.

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Frank Whittemore on July 14th, 2012

An abundant future is a theme we hear a lot about these days. However… Click here to read the entire report located on the Singularity Hub website. Click here to see all blog posts of mine that discuss “Abundance”.

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Peter Diamandis has always dreamed big… Click here to read the Forbes’ article. Like a lot of Baby Boomers, Peter became fascinated with space exploration as a child watching Neil Armstrong’s 1969 moon walk. Being older than Peter, I was actually working for GE in Daytona Beach, Florida for their Apollo Support Department – just [...]

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Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies… Click here to view the PBS news report. Click here to learn more about Peter Diamandis’ thinking on the subject of Abundance as documented in both his Ted Talk and his book. J. Craig Venter, [...]

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Take top thinkers from Silicon Valley and science, mix them with scientists, innovators and philanthro-capitalists, and you’ve got the Singularity University – on a mission to seek technological solutions to the world’s great challenges… Click here for some excellent in depth perspective from the UK. Click here to view the Singularity University website. Click here [...]

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Frank Whittemore on April 23rd, 2012

Click here to get right to their website. Click here to read an article found on the Reuters website. What does Wikipedia say? Click here to find out. Does greed come into play? Click here to learn what Forbes says. Planetary Resource was co-founded by Eric Anderson, a former NASA Mars mission manager, and Peter [...]

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Frank Whittemore on March 28th, 2012

Learn about Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig, The Stanford Education Experiment, Udacity and more… Click here for the complete report. Also, the book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler contains an entire chapter detailing experiments in and the future of education. Also, the book That Used to [...]

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Frank Whittemore on March 4th, 2012

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Frank Whittemore on February 21st, 2012

Today I sat down for breakfast. Turned on my Kindle Fire and immediately saw the new book “Abundance”, which I had preordered, was automatically downloading. Click here to access a book review written by Sam Harris titled “The World Is Getting Better, Argues New Book, ‘Abundance’”. Click here to learn more about Dr. Peter Diamandis’ [...]

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