Stellar: A world beyond limits, and how to get there.

Conceptually this reminded me of Buckminster Fuller's "Utopia or Oblivion"This book is predicated on two ideas 1. that society is a complex adaptive system and 2. that cost curves (also known as Wright's law which observes that as the production volume of an item increases, its cost fall and quality improves more quickly as the industry learns to improve the process) for AI (cost/performance 10x per year), solar (cost drop 82% over the last 10 years), wind (69% cost drop over 10 years), batteries (87% cost drop over 10 years), bio-reactor grown goods (99.9%+ drop over 10 years), transportation as a service (miles of self driving from 0 to billions over 10 years), and humanoid robotics (from millions per unit towards 20k-ish over 10 years) will continue (for another 5-20 years).If author Tony Seba wasn't already correct in his predictions from 10+ years ago this would sound like pure fantasy...but he has been correct.The challenge when reading this is that everyone reading this has lived their entire lives in what the book describes as an "extractive" system. The foundation of the systems around us (energy/food/labor) is extractive and has been since we transitioned from hunter-gatherers to agriculture. Since the beginning of agriculture we've burned wood/coal/petroleum/natural gas for heat/steam/electricity and consumption patterns have driven us towards hierarchical social structures. These define our current "normal".With the set of technologies defined above we move beyond "extractive" to what was described in "Cradle to Cradle" (Michael Braungart, William McDonough) as fecund or abundance. There is plenty of energy (solar and batteries), labor (robots and AI), food and building materials (vertical agriculture + robots and/or cultivated/precision-fermentation grown), etc created in a non-extractive system to supply more than enough for everyone. The analogy is humanity moving from a caterpillar to a butterfly. This change in state would bring changes to society, psychology, etc. Not perfect but an entirely different set of problems than we have now.The book goes on to suggest that although the technological change is near certain, the systemic changes needed are less certain. Vested interests could shape the use of these new technologies within the framework of "extraction" and deny "abundance" for a continuation of extractive/hierarchical systems.

This is the most inspiring and illuminating book I have read in a long time. In the end I am left smiling and feeling empowered to live my life in a way that cultivates a world that servers humanity, other beings and the earth as a whole. This book has a comprehensive view of human evolution since what we call civilization began around 10,000 years ago and a road map to a transformation to a whole new, and very wholesome, future, for all. Highly. Recommended.

Best one stop shop for the best summary of our situation for Civilization on Earth. Draws from other great philosopher / Scientist ‘s like Rokstrum‘s Breaking Boundaries and the real implications and potential of RENEWABLES to recreate the world 🖖

I love Tony Seba's unbelievable insight to future disruptions that have already started, but I'm only 25 pages in and there's barely 2 pages of content, as if the writer gets paid by the word with paragraph after paragraph basically redundant, making it a little painful to read.Fortunately I've seen enough of his videos to know not to judge this book on what I've read so far, and that there's so much more to this story.

Stellar lays out a transformative vision for a tribe of abundance globally for humanity in the coming decades if we simply devote our resources to ignition of our Stellar abundance.

I hate books that keep repeating the same things across many chapters. This book does that. Tony Seba, one of the authors, explains this book well in a YouTube interview. That interview was much more enjoyable to watch than reading this book

Good primer for the coming transition to an automated world.

A compelling and realistic ‘eco-shift’ vision for human civilizational maturity that replaces our current destructive linear extractive take-make-waste ‘economic GROWTH’ system with a circular regenerative wasteless ‘ecologic BALANCE’ system built upon a ubiquitous distributed solar/wind+battery clean energy foundation - where ENERGY (the lifeblood of civilization) is drawn from clean, inexhaustible natural FLOWS from above (sun, wind) and no longer from polluting, depleting resource STOCKS from below (fossil fuels). Inspiring. And eminently doable!