Physics Causing Abundance, Possibly a New Science
I suspect there is a physical constant at the core of abundance. I believe the constant is related to the relationship between the amount of information and the amount of matter involved in providing a good. This could be a huge break through for science and economics.
I don’t have the resources to explore this idea so I’m tossing it out there for someone else to develop. All I ask is you credit me with the concept. If someone wants to provide the resources I would gladly do the research.
Many people have heard of Moore’s Law or at least the effect. The number of components that fit on to a microchip doubles every 18 months. That means every 18 months new electronics such as computers are twice as powerful as the previous generation. Moores Law has been functioning consistently since the 1970’s.
Ray Kurzweil has a presentation where he points out computers aren’t the only thing with the doubling effect.
Almost all technology has some doubling. The rates of doubling are different for each technology but each one has a consistent doubling rate. So why is the rate consistent?
Innovation is an information processing activity. You analyze desires, which are information, then use information to affect something physically resulting in the desire being satisfied. There is a material component and an informational component to innovation. In fact everything in the universe has an informational component. Read more
Elephant Painting, example of Free and innovation
This article will introduce a concept that my next book covers in great detail. It is the biggest problem facing society and the most wonderful opportunity. It’s called Free.
While I was in Thailand I spent two days at Maesa Elephant Camp learning to be a mahout (elephant driver). It was one of the most magical experiences of my life. Interacting with the elephants, the scenery and the way the staff treated us was amazing. One of the things I got to do was make a painting with an elephant.
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Mark Frazier with Kong Kham Painting at Maesa Elephant Camp
Many of these elephants used to work in the timber industry. The need for elephants for logging has dropped so these elephants and the mahouts were out of work. This is an example of how technology advances and makes things free. Elephants once were the cheapest way to harvest logs in terms of time and materials. But now new technology makes it even easier. People used to pay mahouts to ride elephants but they no longer get paid to do that. That is the negative side.
The positive side is timber is much cheaper now so people in general have extra resources to use on other things. And that leads us to the positive effects of Free.
When the real cost, in time and materials of a product or service drop to the point where people don’t put much thought to the cost it is treated like Free. Think of a buffet. People will try a dish they might not because it costs them nothing. And of course the only way that a buffet can work is if the scale of sales make the individual costs cheap enough to let everyone take as much as they want. This is relative Free. An example of absolute Free is a by product of another process. If you were going to throw it away it is free.
Now that no one would pay mahouts to ride elephants some innovation was needed. The solution, charge people to ride elephants. This exact same thing has happened with many industries. Now that people have extra leisure time because the products are so much cheaper they value experiences. They are willing to pay to do something in the old way just to have fun.
After spending two days riding elephants I can assure you that doing it all day every day for a job is not fun. You would have to pay me to do that, but I was more than happy to pay to learn how to ride elephants and enjoy being with them for two days. It was fabulous. A once in a life time experience.
Borders Personal Publishing Beta Test
Borders Books new concept store in Ann Arbor has several innovations. My next book will be part of a Beta test for one of those innovations, Borders Personal Publishing Service. http://publish.bordersstores.com And I would like you to be part of this test. I want the readers of my blog to suggest things to cover or questions to answer in my next book, “Free. How to Thrive in the New World of Abundance”. When the book is published I’ll be making appearances at Borders to talk about Predictive Innovation & Abundance.
Borders Publish Yourself allows you to have your book printed and listed for sale at every Borders store plus others such as Amazon and even Barnes and Nobles. The books are printed on demand through Lulu.com, the leader in on demand publishing. I’ve already published one book using Lulu. The great thing about all of this is how quickly you can complete a project. Instead of waiting months for a traditional publisher to print your book Lulu can print your book the same day and ship it to you overnight. This is exactly the reason I used LuLu to publish Ron Paul Revolution: History in the Making. The content was fresh and it needed to get out while the topic was hot. As a result I beat Ron Paul to market with his book.
Low upfront cost. Traditional book publishing and even self publishing services required printing thousands of copies. Print On Demand allows you to print as few as one book. This fits very well into the long tail. Now that people are able to publish books that might not have large audiences those books can now be sold. The market goes from 0 to 100s and maybe 1000s. Perhaps your market is bigger than you imagined. Until you can get it published you will never know. Abundance makes things possible that weren’t before.
Borders Publish Yourself offers three levels of service plus a selection of individual services.
| Service | ISBN | Standard | Premium |
| ISBN Registration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Interior Page Design & Formatting | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free Proof Copy of Your Book | No | Yes | Yes |
| Self-Publication Guide | No | Yes | Yes |
| Editorial Evaluation | No | No | Yes |
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