The document provides an overview of abundance and prosperity through simple strategies. It discusses how current explanations of scarcity, competition, and profit maximization no longer fully explain our reality given technological advances and abundance of resources like food, water and energy. It argues we should move from profits to benefits and sharing access, ideas, skills and passions. The future may see changes like collaborative innovation, distributed manufacturing and networked co-creation instead of traditional corporate models. Overall, the document advocates awakening to a new age of abundance through cooperation and sharing rather than competition.

1. Awakening
the Age of
Abundance
Simple Strategies for a Prosperous Planet
Ray Podder

2. Abundance?

3. $300,000
ACCESS TO
EXTRAVAGANCE
FOR ALL?
$2,400
$1,000

4. $1BILLION
ACCESS TO
EXTRAVAGANCE
FOR ALL?

5. WORK HARD, GET
ORGANIZED, GET
EDUCATED AND
WORK SMARTER?

6. THIS HARD?
200,000,000+
CHILDREN MUST WORK JUST TO EAT!

7. $ 1.36/HOUR
+BENEFITS UNKNOWN PER WORKER
THIS
ORGANIZED?

8. THIS
EDUCATED?
74.2% LITERACY YET 68.7% INDIANS
LIVE ON LESS
THAN $2/DAY

9. THIS SMART?
2012 GLOBAL PUBLIC DEBT1
-$48,747,641,930,769
2012 U.S. Account Balance (What the U.S. Owes the World)2 Each Employed Person in the U.S. owes3 How long it will take us to pay off4
-$561,000,022,016 $11,890,000 283 Years!
1. As of 5:15 PST 8/31/2012 | Source: Economist.com | 2. Source: Index Mundi 3 & 4. Factoring in per capita income of $47,200, Per capita public debt, 9.7% unemployment and assuming 0% inflation! | Source: Index Mundi

10. HOW’S THAT
WORKING
OUT?
$0.16/day MITA SLIM $4,583,333.33/day

11. We live the reality of our explanations

12. FROM THIS...

13. THIS IS EASY
TO PROJECT...

14. THIS NOT
30,000 + SO MUCH...
OBESITY
DEATHS/YR
118, 612 27,476
TONS WASTED TODAY PEOPLE DIED
OF HUNGER TODAY
Source: worldometers

15. THIS WOULD
BE GREAT...
25% GLOBAL GDP
PROPOSED FOR SPACE COLONIZATION 2012-2030

16. IF WE COULD JUST
IGNORE THIS?
4 BILLION
SLUMS WORLDWIDE

17. WE KNOW THAT
OUR PERSONAL
BAD DECISIONS
AFFECTS MORE
THAN US. YET...
“That looks kick ass!”
—FORMER BFF

18. WE’VE BEEN
MAKING THEM
FOR AS LONG AS
WE CAN
REMEMBER...
WHY?
POLITICS SCIENCE ECONOMICS
1700s 1800s ???

19. We think with the ideas we have

20. still explaining our reality with old ideas?

21. We Assume
1. Resources are scarce?
2. Grab it before it’s gone?
3. Everything has a price?
Image Courtesy: oildrum.com

22. FOOD WATER ENERGY
Source: worldometers
FOOD WASTED IN THE U.S.A. ANNUAL WATER CONSUMPTION SOLAR ENERGY FALLING TODAY
118, 612 3,310,048 3.2 TRILLION MWh
TONS WASTED TODAY BILLION LITERS / YEAR WHEN WE USE 3.7 MWh/D
27,476 PEOPLE DIED 813,018,535 PEOPLE 281,224,798 MWh
OF HUNGER WORLDWIDE TODAY WITHOUT ANY SAFE DRINKING WATER NON-RENEWABLES USED TODAY
102% 4.3%
441 GALLONS = 9 BILLION
OF WATER REQUIRED 8X GALLONS OF WATER
TO PRODUCE JUST CONTAMINATED FROM
1 POUND OF MASS FRACKING EVERYDAY
PRODUCED MEAT 25% IN THE U.S. ALONE!!!

23. IT’S NOT LIKE
WE DON’T
HAVE THE
TECHNOLOGY...

24. 1884
FIRST WORKING
1904
FREE WIRELESS
1931
ELECTRIC DRUG
ELECTRIC CAR ELECTRICITY FREE CURE-ALL
GLOBAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE
EXPENDITURE ESTIMATED FOR THE
CURRENT DEMAND OF 14TWh+/YEAR
$550 1964 1983 2008
?
SUNLIGHT+WATER = WATER & SOIL FREE SINGLE ELECTRON
UNLIMITED ENERGY FOOD GROWERS TRANSFER NANO-GLASS
BILLION / YEAR
NOW
SELF-REPLICATING
NOW
BIOLOGY INSPIRED
NOW
DIY WATER POWERED AIR
WATER CAPTURE CAR DEVELOPED BY A 16
NANO-MATERIALS FOR ADVANCED YEAR OLD KID...
SYSTEMS TO GROW
BATTERIES AND DISTRIBUTED FOOD IN THE DESERT
DESKTOP MANUFACTURING... AND MORE...
Source: IAEA.org

25. IS THIS THE BEST
EXPLANATION WE
COULD COME UP
WITH?

26. WE’VE BEEN
SOLVING FOR
SCARCITY FOR
A WHILE...

27. SOLVING FOR
AUTOMATION...

28. SOLVING FOR
INFORMATION...

29. SOLVING FOR
CONNECTION...

30. Network = Net Worth
SOLVING FOR
TALENT & IDEAS...

31. SO WHY THIS?
Eco Friendly 25%
less plastic bottle
Image Courtesy: Flickr

32. OR THIS?
Image Courtesy: The Atlantic

33. AND THIS?
Image Courtesy: Flickr

34. GLORIFYING THIS?

35. WHAT IF WE STOPPED CULTIVATING STEALING &...
Image Courtesy: Gettyimages

36. S T A R T E D
S H A R I N G
I N S T E A D ?

37. WE ARE...

38. Sharing
Access

39. SHARING IDEAS

40. SHARING SKILLS

41. SHARING SMARTS

42. SHARING PASSIONS

43. MOVING FROM...
Profits to Benefits
Source: Shutterstock

44. OLD
PRE INTERNET
R&D +
MANUFACTURING
UNIVERSITY +
NON PROFIT R&D EXPECTATIONS
SUPPLIERS &
WORKFORCE
INVESTMENT
INSTITUTIONS FOR PROFIT
CORPORATION
Opacity
INVESTMENTS Blind spots for each entity
Secrets Protect Interests
MARKETING
Contracts
FEEL GOOD & ADVERTISING Mistrust & Manipulation
PHILANTHROPY
Donations
LOGISTICS &
SUPPLY CHAIN
High Margins
Unforeseen Risk Mitigators
Research
Ownership Equals Cost Controls
Increasing Overheads per Entity
Innovations
Products
MASS MARKET
CONSUMERS
DISTRIBUTION
Consistency
& RETAIL Capital Controls Value Chain
Reports Barriers Keep Out Competitors
Consistency “Feels” Stable

45. POST INTERNET
NEW
3RD PARTY R&D +
MANUFACTURING &
REALITIES
???
2-WAY CROWDSOURCED
EDUCATION + INNOVATION
NON PROFIT R&D
Overshooting Capital
Requirements to
Justify Valuation.
Overhyping Exit
Opportunity to
FREE AGENT maintain Credibility
SUPPLIERS &
WORKFORCE
Cost of Market Valuation
MICRO-EQUITY
SHAREHOLDERS
CROWDFUNDING
+INSTITUTIONAL AGILE/MOBILE
FOR PROFIT EMERGENCE Value Lost to Long Tail
INVESTORS
CORPORATION OF ADDITIVE
MANUFACTURING
Connectivity
CONTRACTS Suppliers & Workers are Free Agents
Privacy & Patents Opened & Shared
SOCIAL MEDIA & BIG DATA
Investments + CROWDSOURCED Collaboration is Advantageous
EMERGING SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Donations
ENTREPRENEURS
+ TRADITIONAL
PHILANTHROPY
HELD TO HIGHER
LOGISTICS &
SUPPLY CHAIN
Low Margins
ACCOUNTABILITY + Duplication is Increasingly Easier
Research DISTRIBUTED
RETAIL Ownership Becomes a Liability
Low Quality Copies Erode Value
Innovations
Products
NETWORKED
CO-CREATOR
Disruption
CO-INVESTOR Lower Cost for New Entrants
CO-PRODUCER
Reports CO-PROMOTER Network Value is Capital Agnostic
CONNECTED
PROSUMER Enforcement is Difficult & Expensive

46. CHANGES
BELOW THE
SURFACE...

47. CHANGES
EVERYWHERE

48. “
I know that most men—not only those considered
clever, but even those who are very clever and capable
of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical,
or philosophic, problems—can seldom discern even
the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as
obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they
have formed, perhaps with much difficulty—conclusions
of which they are proud, which they have taught to
“
others, and on which they have built their lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
Opening to Ch 14. Translation from: What Is Art and Essays on Art (Oxford University Press, 1930, trans. Aylmer Maude)

49. THE REAL SCARCITY
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Mycellium: Image Courtesy:

50. TRUST WE CAN RE-ESTABLISH IT AGAIN...

51. THIS IS
JUST THE
REACH OF
ONE!

52. OUR POWER IS
BEYOND ROLES...

53. “
“
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

54. AWAKENING TO ABUNDANCE

56. 1. Selfless Sovereignty
Get informed and inspired by others in
Accounting for the Next the network to form key purpose questions
Multidimensional value
to be expressed and manifested in collaboration)
quintuple bottom line 2. Positive Sentiments
why Define and communicate your vision with
Self Sovereignty = Empowerment collaborative partners & patrons to
co-create directives for action)
Contextual Accounting how
The conceptual framworks below are not valued uniformly for every
interaction we encounter. Instead, they are powerful markers to define
3. Equity & Sustainablity
Realize your dream with collaborator individuals
the total human scale value in proportion to their impact within a defined
context. For example, the dimension of wealth is more important in food
what and organizations proceeds from activity using
a common framework for action)
production, whereas the dimension of beauty is more important in travel
services, or the dimension of truth is more important scientific ventures.
Wealth Truth Beauty Values Power
Activities that contribute directly Activities that inform the most Activities that attract the Activities that influence the Activities that create the
to production and consumption predictable path of action for participation and enjoyment behavior of individuals and choices that influence the
of resources.The economic model results. The ideas that explain of the quality of life by its groups within a societal likelihood of manifesting
uses reality better than the previously elegance and magnetism context, often geospecific contextually favorable
thisdimension accepted, yet incomplete and geneospecific in nature actions in the future.
as the primary driver, but explanations in retrospect. Focused on the elegance
and simplicity of the things Addressing the unifying Creating power for those
Focued on productive Focused on the non-physical that resonate intrinsically value for all life. who share versus those
prosperity for all people. phenomena. with natural flow. who hoard.
Wealth units Truth units Beauty units Values units Power units
Instances of consumption Instances of predictability Instances of liking & sharing Instances of filtering & vetting Instances of direct influence
© GROW 2012. CONFIDENTIAL

57. “
“ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not
everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

58. RECONNECTING
TO REAL MATTERS

59. FRIENDS
FREEDOM
JOY

60. TRUTH

61. B E A U T Y

62. WONDER

63. EXCITEMENT

64. ADVENTURE

65. KINDNESS

66. INSIGHT

67. WISDOM

68. PEACE

69. LOVE
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70. THANK YOU
Ray Podder
thisisgrow.org
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