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Or perhaps this would unleash some sort of economic problem, whereby very few of us would be able to earn a living in this new world and that the abundance that we thought we craved would in fact be a curse in disguise. What I want to do is to talk to you very simply and plainly about the problems that we currently face that almost no one is willing to discuss, and that is that we have a world [[Embedded Growth Obligation|largely built for rapid growth]] in which that kind of broad growth is no longer found easily, simply by looking with better instruments, with more patience, and more detail at the world in which we live.  

Further, I think we're going to explain a lot of our theorizing, some of which has been covered in the annual Edge essays for [https://www.edge.org/memberbio/eric_r_weinstein edge.org], in which, effectively we've engaged in a 10 year strategy. I've always wondered, 'What would be the best way of sneaking a weapon through airport security?' Even though I've never attempted to do anything like that, I always thought that the best way of doing it would be to do it in pieces, where each piece is not entirely understandable as being part of something that is being screened for. Well, that's what I chose to do in the edge essays that we'll be discussing. I think the first essay I wrote was called [https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11861 Go Virtual Young Man], which was in response to what I was just learning about in terms of Bitcoin.