Why It Still Feels Like Recession To 95% Of America

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28. Resources are a function of technology.

A household with reasonable molecular manufacturing capability (nanotechnology) and an input of energy (solar is fine) is self sustaining. It's perfectly capable of taking whatever atoms it has in it's supply and rearranging them into whatever is needed - food, housing, transportation, etc...

It's also perfectly capable of recycling those atoms with 100% efficiency into whatever new forms that are needed, so you can eliminate all waste and pollution at the same time.

This future is about 40 or 50 years out. This household will be able to provide everything it wants or needs for itself for pretty much no costs. The only thing that would cost anything in that world would probably be rare elements, information (media, new product designs, art, etc...), and maybe access to the web (or its future equivalent) unless that isn't also provided for free at that point as well.

Beyond that... we have all of space to start expanding into, which nanotechnology will also enable in a cheap efficient manner. The world will change more over the next 3 or 4 decades then it has over the last 3 or 4 centuries due to exponentially accelerating technology curves.

[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Raymond_Kurzweil#2029[/link]