Abundance

Abundance is a key piece of Klein and Thompson’s titular book. Klein and Thompson define abundance as a “state in which there is enough of what we need to create lives better than what we have had” (20). They do not mean abundance of “the goods that fill a house,” but instead “what’s needed to build a good life” (19). Instead of falling into the trap of consumerism that proselytizes the benefits of buying more and more material goods, Klein and Thompson advocate for an abundance centered on communal resources that make the world a better place. They seek to utilize abundance to solve the housing crisis by building more affordable housing and combatting the artificial scarcity caused by difficulty accessing public funding and overly extensive rules and regulations; they seek to utilize abundance to mitigate the climate crisis by investing in green energy infrastructure to make abundant green energy; and they seek to change the field of scientific innovation by making government resources more plentiful.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined by IBM as “technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy” (Stryker, Cole and Eda Kavlakoglu. “What is artificial intelligence?” IBM, 9 Aug.