136–7
DeLong, J. Bradford, 64–5
dementia, 143
Dementia Tax, 142
democratic people, 187
Deutsche Bank, 103, 105
Deutscher, Isaac, 243
Diamandis, Peter, 129, 135, 136
diesel vehicles, 105
digitisation, 40
Discorsi (Machiavelli), 95
disruptions. See also specific disruptions
energy and, 94–6
food, surplus and, 159–60
d.light, 109
DNA, 144, 147, 150, 151, 241–2
double helix model, 149
Doug, 7–8
Drucker, Peter, 51, 59–60, 79, 85, 232
dwarf planets, 130
E. coli, 148n
Earth BioGenome Project, 146
East Coast Main Line, 203–4
economic globalisation, 197–8
economies relocalisation of, 207–8 worker-owned, 207–8, 211–12, 219
egg whites, cellular agriculture and, 177–9
Ehrlich, Paul, 167 The Population Bomb, 166
Eisenhower, Dwight, 136n, 137
elderly care, 92
electoral politics, 195
electoralism, society and, 194–6
elite technocracy, 185–8
Elysium (film), 154–8
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 235
Endless West, 180
Endogenous Technological Change (Romer), 63
‘The End of History’ (Fukuyama), 15–17
The End of History and the Last Man
(Fukuyama), 16 energy consumption of, 99–100 cost of storage technologies for, 105 disruption and, 94–6 free, 99–101 future of, 105–6 insulation of, 113–15 minimising consumption of, 220 post-scarcity in, 94–116 renewable (See renewable energy) solar, 101–5 wind, 111–13 energy transition, politics of, 218 Engels, Friedrich The Communist Manifesto, 51–2 England, 114. See also Britain enlightenment, 187 environmental consequences, of Second Disruption, 96 An Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus), 163–4 ethnic people, 187 excess deaths, 114, 220 experience, power of, 46–8 exponential travel, 39–40 ‘extreme supply’, 37
‘fake news’, 24
Falcon 9 rocket, 121, 122, 156
Farage, Nigel, 29
farming, 167–8
feedback loop, 205
fertility rates, 139–40, 142
finance, socialising, 207
Financial Policy Committee, 229
Finless Foods, 172, 173
First Disruption, 10–11, 31–2, 72, 79, 94, 134, 149, 159, 237
‘First Machine Age ’, 32
Fisher, Mark, 17–18
FLAC. See Fully Automated Luxury Communism
food as information, 164–8
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