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		<title>Abundance Report: Solar 3D Printer Builds from Sand</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/07/13/solar-3d-printer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Markus Kayser &#8211; Solar Sinter Project from Markus Kayser on Vimeo. Markus Kayser has built a 3D printer that uses sun light to turn sand into 3D glass objects. Free energy making things from the free materials. He calls the device a Solar Sinter. The process works by spreading thin layers of sand then focusing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Income Inequality &amp; Shifting Identities – The Specialist &amp; The Omnivore</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/05/14/rising-income-inequality-shifting-identities-%e2%80%93-the-specialist-the-omnivore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 00:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rising Income Inequality &#038; Shifting Identities – The Specialist &#038; The Omnivore An excellent explanation of the effects of the transitions from economy to abundance. As technology increases, ownership of things that make things (physical capital) will be more important and relationships will eventually become the only scarce good. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>Force, Charity and Logic</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/04/06/force-charity-and-logic/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/04/06/force-charity-and-logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some people claim wealthy people must be forced to provide for the needy. Logic and evidence show that is false. Charity is always freely given, and that is often. This flow chart shows both freely given charity and forced redistribution of wealth. Before we begin what is &#8220;needy&#8221;. A person is needy if they do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ham boning robot, Abundance Report</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/02/11/ham-boning-robot-abundance-report/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/02/11/ham-boning-robot-abundance-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meat cutting is a dangerous, physically stressful, and tedious job. Replacing human meat cutters with robots is all around better if the humans have an income. The representative repeatedly says the robots can cut oddly shaped soft objects. He is making clear that cutting ham is not the only use. The robot can cut a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Z-type, typing practice shooter game</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/02/10/z-type-typing-practice-shooter-game/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/02/10/z-type-typing-practice-shooter-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Z-type is free fun game that builds your typing and spelling skills. The adrenaline from playing the fast paced game triggers your brain to subconsciously learn the spelling of the words. Play Z-type yourself http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/ Be Sociable, Share! Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>Prediction: Meaningful Image Resize, Key Technology</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/28/prediction-meaningful-image-resize-key-technology/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/28/prediction-meaningful-image-resize-key-technology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Meaningful image resize has larger importance than just intelligently resizing images to maintain the essential object. This is key innovation technology. Removing or adding non-essential portions of an image to decrease or increase the size while maintaining the objects in the image keeps the informational value. This is a form of data compression. This technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot Strawberry Picker, Abundance Report</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/25/robot-strawberry-picker-abundance-report/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2011/01/25/robot-strawberry-picker-abundance-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the USA picking strawberries is hard low paid work for migrant, often illegal alien, workers. Japan&#8217;s robot strawberry picker comes from a different mindset. Most post-industrialized nations complain about cheap foreign labor taking their jobs. Similarly people living in high income nations complain that automation is eliminating jobs, even jobs no one really wants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help build a 2.5 ton flaming interactive musical instrument</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/06/03/help-build-a-2-5-ton-flaming-interactive-musical-instrument/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/06/03/help-build-a-2-5-ton-flaming-interactive-musical-instrument/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Syzygryd a crowd funded project, Syzygryd is collaborative musical instrument, Syzygryd is a light show, Syzygryd is a flame thrower. You can make Syzygryd happen. Be Sociable, Share! Tweet]]></description>
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		<title>Details of Abundance Based Intellectual Property System</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/20/details-of-abundance-based-intellectual-property-system/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/20/details-of-abundance-based-intellectual-property-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My article Abundance Based Intellectual Property System is being discussed at TechDirt. The fundamental point is that R&#038;D is different from manufacturing and marketing. For a system to promote innovation it must reward those two different tasks separately. And the best system aligns all parties instead of pitting them against each other. Unfortunately the fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abundance Report: $2 million for a Virtual Horse</title>
		<link>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/18/abundance-report-2-million-for-a-virtual-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://markproffitt.com/2010/04/18/abundance-report-2-million-for-a-virtual-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 10:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mark</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abundance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://markproffitt.com/?p=634</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[World of Warcraft player demonstrate the ultimate level of Abundance, knowingly buying nothing. This is both the ultimate example of Abundance, Artificial Scarcity, and the how to find markets in an age of Abundance. Abundance occurs when capacity exceeds needs. This focuses on desires further up Maslow&#8217;s hierarchy. Innovation leads to Abundance which drives more [...]]]></description>
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