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| Part One: Perspective |
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Chapter One Our Grandest Challenge |
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Chapter Two Building the Pyramid |
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Chapter Three Seeing the Forest Through the Trees |
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Chapter Four It's Not as Bad as You Think |
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| Part Two: Exponential Technologies |
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Chapter Five Ray Kurzweil and the Go-Fast Button |
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Chapter Six The Singularity Is Nearer |
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| Part Three: Building The Base Of The Pyramid |
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Chapter Seven The Tools of Cooperation |
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Chapter Nine Feeding Nine Billion |
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| Part Four: The Forces Of Abundance |
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Chanter Ten The DIY Innovator |
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Chapter Eleven The Technophilanthropists |
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132 | (8) |
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Chapter Twelve The Rising Billion |
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140 | (15) |
| Part Five: Peak Of The Pyramid |
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Chapter Fourteen Education |
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Chapter Fifteen Health Care |
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189 | (16) |
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| Part Six: Steering Faster |
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Chapter Seventeen Driving Innovation and Breakthroughs |
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Chapter Eighteen Risk and Failure |
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Chapter Nineteen Which Way Next? |
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236 | (5) |
| Afterword: Next Step-Join the Abundance Hub |
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| Reference Section Raw Data |
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| Appendix: Dangers of the Exponentials |
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| Notes |
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| Acknowledgment |
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| Index |
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