Abundance

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think is a 2012 manifesto by futurist Peter Diamandis and science writer Steven Kotler arguing that exponential technologies—including artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology—combined with human ingenuity and entrepreneurship, can solve humanity's greatest challenges and create unprecedented material prosperity. The book surveys technological progress across energy, water, food, health, education, and freedom, demonstrating how scarcity mindsets have historically underestimated human problem-solving capacity. Diamandis and Kotler contend that the convergence of exponential technologies with crowd-sourced innovation and DIY entrepreneurship is democratizing access to tools once available only to governments and large corporations. Abundance became influential in Silicon Valley and futurist circles, shaping discourse around technological optimism and the potential for technology to address global poverty, disease, and resource constraints. The book has been criticized by some for underestimating systemic barriers, inequality, and environmental limits, but remains a canonical text in techno-optimist and transhumanist thought.