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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 Index 271 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=281 | PRINTED_PAGE=272 surplus, disruptions and, 159–60 Food and Agriculture Organisation, 161 food banks, 24 ‘food stamps’, 24 Ford, Henry, 70–1 fossil fuels, 106, 107, 118–19, 188–9, 218–20, 239 Foxconn, 78 ‘Fragment on Machines’, 51 free energy, 99–101 free market economies, 227 Freedom Pass, 215 Frey, Carl Benedikt, 87 Friedman, Milton, 36, 225 From Marx to the Market (Łaski and Brus), 230–1 Fukuyama, Francis, 23, 198 ‘The End of History’, 15–17 The End of History and the Last Man, 16 Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) about, 12, 50–51, 237–39 as a beginning, 242–3 benefits of shift to, 186 capitalism, 51–3 climate change and, 189 communism, 53–6 information goods, 63–5 internationalism of, 197 leverage of anchor institutions under, 217 Luxury Populism and, 192–4 post-capitalism and information, 59–60 post-capitalism without communism, 56–9 productivity revolution, 60–3 role of central banks in, 228 Taylorism, 60–3 visionaries and, 239–42 gene editing, 150, 152 future, energy and the, 105–6 Galileo, 32 GDP, end of, 232–6 gene sequencing, 148–9 gene therapies, 149–54 General Motors (GM), 105–6 The General Problems of the Functioning of the Socialist Economy (Brus), 231 genetic information, 144–9 genetic inheritance, 149 geriatric care, 92 GES (Global Exploration Strategy), 125–6 global capitalism, 221–2 Global Exploration Strategy (GES), 125–6 Global North, 99, 101, 106, 162, 163, 218–19, 222, 228, 231, 234 global poverty, reduction of, 221 Global South, 99, 101, 106–11, 115, 148, 218–22, 231 global transportation networks, rise of, 34 global warming, 197 globalisation, economic, 197–8 globalism, against, 197–200 Glyph, 180 GM (General Motors), 105–6 Google, 85, 171 Gosplan agency, 226–8 Gou, Terry, 78 ‘grassroots’ campaigns, 190 Great Depression, 233 Great Recession, 24 Greece, 28 green movement, 238–9 green politics, 188–92 greenhouse gases, 174–5 Greenspan, Alan, 26 The Green Revolution, 164 Grenfell Tower, 206–8 Grundrisse (Marx), 51–2, 56–7, 61–3 Guttenberg Bible, 241 Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV), 205 272 fully automated luxury communism ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=282 | PRINTED_PAGE=273 Hayabusa spacecraft, 131 Hayek, F. A., 225 HDV (Haringey Development Vehicle), 205 healthcare Britain and, 213–14 post-scarcity in, 138–58 in UK, 215–16 United States and, 213–14 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 16 heme, 176–7 Henderson, Bruce, 46–7 Henderson Curve, 46–7 Hinkley Point C, 113 Hinton, Geofrey, 91 history, in 2008, 20–1 Hobbes, Thomas, 139 Holt, William, 44–5 Horse Manure Crisis, 73, 134 Houdini 6, 81 Human Genome Project, 144–5, 146 human rights, centrality of, 193–4 hurricanes, 97–8 Huxley, Aldus, 19 IBM, 80 Ibn Khallikan, 40–2 IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), 221 IDA (International Development Association), 221 IEA (International Energy Agency), 103, 105 ignorant people, 187–8 Illumina, 146 imitation, integration vs., 198 Impossible Foods, 175–7 India, 110, 166 Industrial Revolution, 33 industry, 32–6 inertia, measuring, 25–30 infectious diseases, 142–3 information about, 37–48 biology as, 39 food as, 164–8 Marx on, 49 post-capitalism and, 59–60 information goods, 63–5 information technology and robotics, 76 Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London, 214 integration, imitation vs., 198 internal energy insulation, 113 International Astronautical Congress, 119 International Bank for Energy Prosperity, 222 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 221 International Development Association (IDA), 221 International Energy Agency (IEA), 100–1, 103, 105 International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), 103–4 International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), 166 internationalism, 197–200 internet bandwidth, 45–6 Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), 119, 120 IPCC, 101 IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency), 103–4 IRRI (International Rice Research Institute), 166 Ishee, David, 9, 153–4 ITS (Interplanetary Transport System), 119, 120 Jain, Naveen, 127–8 Jameson, Fredric, 17n Japanese Space Agency, 131 JD.com, 89 Jennings, Ken, 80, 81 Jevons, William, 164, 167 Jevons Paradox, 164 Index 273 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=283 | PRINTED_PAGE=274 Kalanick, Travis, 84 Kalecki, Michał, 230, 231 Kasparov, Garry, 80 Kennedy, Robert, 233 Keynes, John Maynard, 51, 56–9, 243 ‘KIVA’ robot, 89 Kodak, 40–2 Kranzberg, Melvin ‘Six Laws of Technology’, 237 Kuiper belt, 130 Kurdi, Alan, 156–7 Kuznets, Simon, 233 labour, when capital becomes, 69–71 Labour Party, 229 Łaski, Kazimierz From Marx to the Market, 230–1 LEDs, 242 Lehman Brothers, 21 Leia, 4–5 Lendlease, 205 Leninism, 196 Leontief, Wassily, 75–6 Letter on the Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren, 56–7 Lewicki, Chris, 132 Lewis, Clive, 207 life expectancy, 139–40, 142, 166 lithium, 117, 118 livestock farming, 169–70 ‘lost decade ’, 26 Luther, Martin, 240–1 luxury populism electoralism and society, 194–6 against elite technocracy, 185–8 FALC and, 192–4 against globalism, 197–200 green politics and red politics, 188–92 towards internationalism, 197–200 Machiavelli, Niccolò Discorsi, 95 Madrid Protocol, 136 Malthus, Thomas, 167 An Essay on the Principle of Population, 163–4 market capitalism about, 197–8 emergence of, 39–40 market socialism, autonomy of publicly owned firms under, 231 Mars, 120 Martinelli, Luke, 226 Marx, Karl on capitalism, 16, 34–6, 35, 51, 54–5, 128, 199 The Communist Manifesto, 51–2 compared to Wyclife, 241 Grundrisse, 51–2, 56–7, 61–3 on information, 49 on mode of production, 195 on production, 60 on technology, 237 May, Theresa, 29, 141, 206 McAfee, Andrew, 93 McCauley, Raymond, 146 McDonnell, John, 207 meat cultured, 170–5 synthetic, 168–70 from vegetables, 175–7 medicine, automation in, 91 meganucleases, 150 Memphis Meats, 172, 173 Mendel, Gregor, 149 migration, globalism and, 197 milk, cellular agriculture and, 177–9 Millennium Project, 87–8 minerals, 117–18, 134–7. See also resources MinION sequencer, 148 M-Kopa, 109 mode of production, 195 modern welfare state, 213 molecular assembly, 180 Monetary Policy Committee, 229 Moon Express, 124, 125–6, 127, 130 274 fully automated luxury communism ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=284 | PRINTED_PAGE=275 Moore, Gordon, 42–4, 46 Moore’s Law, 41, 44–5, 81, 143, 145 Moravec’s Paradox, 81, 82 Mosa Meats, 172 M-Pesa, 109 municipal protectionism, 207, 212, 213, 216 music industry, 234–5 Musk, Elon, 119–21, 135 MX1, 125 MX9, 125 Myconius, Friedrich, 240 Napster, 154 NASA, 120, 122, 124, 126, 128, 131, 137 National Energy Investment Banks (NEIBs), 219, 221 National Health Service (NHS), 210, 213 nationalisation, 213 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), 38–9, 130–1 NEAs (near-Earth asteroids), 38–9, 130–1 NEIBs (National Energy Investment Banks), 219, 221 neoliberalism, 26–7, 228 neoliberalism, break with Carillion, 201–3 decarbonisation, 217–23 East Coast Main Line, 203–4 Grenfell Tower, 206–8 Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV), 205 Preston Model, 208–11 Universal Basic Services (UBS), 213–17 worker-owned businesses and banks, 211–12 New Labour, 207 Newcomen, Thomas, 33 Newton, Isaac, 32 NHS (National Health Service), 210, 213 nickel, 118 Nigeria, 107–8 Obama, Barack, 2, 9, 21, 128 Of-Grid, 109–10 One Planet Tax, 222 Orwell, George, 19 Osborne, Michael, 87 OSIRIS-REx study, 131 ouroboros, 205 Outer Space Treaty (1967), 127, 136 outsourcing, 202–4, 207, 217 ‘Oxi’ vote, 28 Passivhaus, 114 ‘peak copper’, 118 peak horse, 72–4 peak human, 74–8 PECO engine, 125 Perfect Day Foods, 178 Peter, 5–6 PETMAN, 82–3 petrol vehicles, 105 phenylketonuria (PKU), 147, 147n Philips, 77–8 phosphorus, 118 photography, 402 photosynthesis, 168 photovoltaic (PV) cells, 47, 102–15 PKU (phenylketonuria), 147, 147n Planetary Resources, 129, 130, 132, 135, 136–7 Podemos party, 27–8, 30 political transformation, vehicles for, 194 politics of anti-austerity, 201 of energy transition, 218 green, 188–92 red, 188–92 relationship between technology and, 237 population, 139–40 The Population Bomb (Ehrlich), 166 populism, 187–8. See also luxury Index 275 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=285 | PRINTED_PAGE=276 populism Post, Mark, 170–2, 175, 176 post-capitalism information and, 59–60 without communism, 56–9 poverty, 24–5 Preston Model, 208–11, 213 private space industry, 120–1 privatisation, 202–4, 207, 209–10 production, mode of, 195 productivity paradox, 233 productivity revolution, 60–3 progressive procurement, 207 property-owning democracy, 25 prototype politics, 198 PV (photovoltaic) cells, 47, 102–5 radical politics, revival of, 27–8 railway lines, 33–4 realism, capitalist, 17–9 red politics, 188–92 Rees-Mogg, Jacob, 206–7 Reformation, 240, 241 regeneration, 207 Reither, Walter, 70–1 Relativity Space, 123, 124 renewable energy about, 104, 108 financing, 219–20 generating and storing, 218–19 green movement and, 238–9 transitioning to, 218–19 renewables, 106 ‘Reopening the American Frontier: Exploring How the Outer Space Treaty Will Impact American Commerce and Settlement in Space ’, 129 Resolution Foundation, 58 resources asteroid mining, 119–20 globalism and, 197 post-scarcity in, 117–37 private space industry, 120–1 space, 119–37 Ricardo, David, 69, 233 rice production, 161–2 Richards, Bob, 124 Rifkin, Jeremy, 79 Rio Earth Summit, 98, 197 robots about, 78, 133 Atlas, 82–3, 132 da Vinci surgery robot, 90 information technology and robotics, 76 ‘KIVA’, 89 rise of, 80–2 Rocket Lab, 121, 122, 123 Romer, Paul, 63–5, 199–200 Roosevelt, Franklin, 194 Rutter, Brad, 80 Sanders, Bernie, 29, 30 Saturn V, 120, 122 Saudi Arabia, 220–1 Schumpeter, Joseph, 36 Scottish National Party, 28 Second Disruption, 11, 32–6, 72–4, 79, 94, 96, 106, 134, 139, 141, 163, 188, 190, 192, 198, 201, 208, 217, 232–3, 236, 238, 241 Selden, Mike, 172, 173 self-regulation, consequences of, 206 ‘Sermon on Indulgences and Grace ’ (Luther), 241 Silicon Valley, 196 ‘Six Laws of Technology’ (Kranzberg), 237 Skelton, Noel, 25 Smith, Adam, 69, 233 ‘Social Prosperity for the Future ’, 214 socialised capital market, 230–2 socialism, 191 society, electoralism and, 194–6 soil fertility, 118 ‘solar home’, 113–14 solar power/energy about, 101–5, 107 Global South and, 106–11 276 fully automated luxury communism ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=286 | PRINTED_PAGE=277 in Saudi Arabia, 220–1 Solow, Robert, 233 Sondergaard, Peter, 87 space asteroid mining, 133–4 falling costs of, 122–4 mineral wealth in, 134–7 Moon Express, 125–6 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), 130–1 Outer Space Treaty (1967), 127 as private industry, 120–1 private sector, 132–3 SPACE Act (2015), 2, 9 Space Launch System, 120 Space Shuttle programme, 122 SpaceX, 119–21, 122, 133–4, 156 speculative economy, repressing the, 229–30 Sputnik, 137, 153 state socialism, 213 steam engine, 93, 95, 149, 164, 201, 238 steam power, 33 Summers, Larry, 64–5, 116, 199–200 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, 24 surplus, food, disruptions and, 159–60 sustenance about, 178–9 cultured meat, 170–5 egg whites, 177–9 food, surplus and disruptions, 159–60 meat from vegetables, 175–7 milk, 177–9 planetary limits, 160–4 post-scarcity in, 159–81 synthetic meat, 168–70 wine, 177–81 synthetic meat, 168–70 Syriza, 28, 30 TALEN (transcription activator-like efector-based nucleases), 150 Taylor, Frederick, 60–3, 85 Taylorism, 60–3 technological unemployment, 86–8 technology Marx on, 237 relationship between politics and, 237 Technology and Unemployment report, 53 Terran 1 rocket, 124 Tesla, 84, 85, 106 Thatcher, Margaret, 206–7 Third Disruption, 11, 37–48, 70, 79, 82, 92, 116, 143–4, 148, 156, 171, 185–8, 192–6, 201, 212–4, 217, 221, 226, 232, 234, 236, 238, 241–3 3-D Magnetic Recording technology, 45–6 3-D printing, 122–4, 127 Tithebarn project, 208 transatlantic telegraph cable, 34 transcription activator-like efectorbased nucleases (TALEN), 150 transportation, in UK, 215 travel, exponential, 39–40 Trump, Donald, 21, 24, 29, 30 Trussell Trust, 24 Turnspit dog, 72–3 Uber, 84, 85 UBI (Universal Basic Income), 224–6 UBS (Universal Basic Services), 207–8, 213–17, 224, 226, 236 UK ageing in Britain, 141–4 healthcare in, 215–16 transportation in, 215 UKIP, 28 unemployment, 26 unfreedom, 214 unions, in Britain, 211–12 Universal Basic Income (UBI), 224–6 Universal Basic Services (UBS), 207–8, 213–17, 224, 226, 236 University College London, 90 US Department of Agriculture, 178 US Food and Drug Administration, 153 Index 277 ## PDF_PHYSICAL_PAGE_INDEX=287 | PRINTED_PAGE=278 US National Institute of Health, 147 US National Space Council, 129 US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, 129 utopia, from crisis to, 48–9 V2, 137 Valeti, Uma, 173 vegetables, meat from, 175–7 Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days, 33 von Braun, Wernher, 120, 128 voting, 195 wage-labour, 35 Wagner, Erika, 135 Wales, 114 Watson (computer), 80 Watson, James, 144, 149 Watt, James, 33 Watt’s steam engine, 93, 95, 149, 201, 238 The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 69–70 wheat production, 161–2, 165 Whole Foods Market, 88 Wikipedia, 235 wind power/energy, 111–13 windfall tax, 230 wine, cellular agriculture and, 177–81 work, future of, 92–3 worker-owned cooperatives, 209–10 worker-owned economy, 207–8, 211–12, 219 World Bank, 221, 222 Wyclife, John, 239–41 Xplorer, 132 Yang (factory worker), 1–2 ZFNs (zinc finger nucleases), 150 zinc, 118 zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), 150 Žižek, Slavoj, 17n 278 fully automated luxury communism