Uploaded July 2015 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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How does society function when no-one can earn money?

Original video:
youtube.com/watch?v=PPuK7qBOjgY

Will Work For Free (Maveric Media)
youtube.com/watch?v=0SuGRgdJA_c

Robots Will Steal Your Job, but that's OK (Frederico Pistono/TEDx)
youtube.com/watch?v=kYIfeZcXA9U

The Coming Singlarity (Ray Kurzweil/Big Think)
youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE

Abundance Is Our Future (Peter Diamandis/TED)
youtube.com/watch?v=BltRufe5kkI

Graph (not created by blogspot user, was originally in TIME magazine)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-728jh29xj0U/UsVVaacotYI/AAAAAAAAWzY/u5FPsIBx1pQ/s1600/Accelerating+Returns.jpg

Global Solar Capacity About To Hit 200GW (CleanTechnica)
cleantechnica.com/2015/07/11/global-solar-power-capacity-about-to-hit-200-gw

Lab-Grown Burgers Just Got A LOT Cheaper! (FW: Thinking)
youtube.com/watch?v=pXeAyoRsf-k

Graph of solar power production over time was created in freeware, Graphmatica. Year on x-axis, capacity by beginning of year in gigawatts (GW) on y-axis, formula is my own exponential curve of best fit:
y=1.35^(x-1998)
i.e. assumes 1GW produced by 1998, at 35% growth rate.
Professional estimates as to growth rate of solar capacity range from 30% (found in Peter Diamandis' book, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think) to over 60% (found in various articles on CleanTechnica).

Source of data inputted on graph:
treehugger.com/renewable-energy/solar-panels-are-going-glut-shortage-first-time-2006.html

The article seems to suggest what I said about an eventual slowing of the trend.