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Abundance, plenty, and well supplied are global desires

Here are interesting word units dealing with abundance, abounding, etc.; starting with this word family of undu- words plus links to related links.

There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example, that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.

-Bat Masterson

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

-Ambrose Bierce

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

-Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Age of Abundance

Technology is driving us toward an era of exhilarating freedom and economic opportunity.

  • Currently, thanks to the exponential growth rate of technology, we are on the edge of a much better tomorrow.
  • We are now living in a world of information and communication abundance.
  • The most significant change of the next decade should be the dramatic increase in worldwide connectivity via the Internet.
  • Three billion new minds are about to join the global brain. What will they dream? What will they discover? What will they desire?
  • These are minds that the rest of society has never had access to before. Their collective economic and creative boost should unleash the most powerful abundance force of all.
—Excerpts from "Age of Abundance" by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler;
presented in Discover magazine (Science, Technology, and the Future);
April, 2012; pages 46-50.

The BIG question is, will there be enough abundance of food, water, and other resources; PLUS peaceful co-existence throughout the world so people can actually enjoy the abundance of technology?

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