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@Gale Pooley, this is the power of superabundance. The more ideas we create, the more effectively and efficiently we can use the limited atoms that we have available to us.

The more our technology advances, the more we evaporate the physical world

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We’re not evaporating the physical world, we’re “intelligizing” the physical world. We’re making atoms smart with our knowledge discovery, creating, sharing, and consuming. We don’t evaporate keys on the piano when we create new songs, we find valuable new combinations. Thanks for reading and commenting my friend.

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Jun 5Liked by Gale Pooley

The smartphone touch screen made the keyboard found on BlackBerrys, for example, redundant. That is what I mean by evaporating the physical world.

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Agreed. We’re replacing atoms/energy with smarter atoms/energy.

Physical pianos with digital keyboards. The idea is what do we need to get the same utility?

Sometimes we trade one kind of material for another, or replace atoms with electrons. Or figure out how to make atoms/ energy do more work/thinking.

All comes back to allowing people the freedom tfto discover and share valuable new knowledge. This is the definition of innovation.

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With communication we went from atoms to electrons to photons.

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