The New Abundance

A radical, utopian future is being debated by everyone from Google Deepmind to Gaza aid workers. The question is, how do you define it?

Abundance may not be something you are feeling right now. Between the painful economic slow down, (unless you are a London or New York estate agent/landlord, in which case your chips are in), the price of Chanel handbags, and all the impending taxes (right, they’re not going to raise taxes UNTIL THEY HAVE TO), abundance would seem an odd word to be bandying about right now. And yet it’s the hottest buzz word on the planet.

Whether its Google Deepmind boss Demis Hassabis talking about the promised land of ‘radical abundance’, (more on his London SXSW address in a minute), or the title of a new book by the America liberal thinkers Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, or the ‘small treats economy’ defined by Gen Z and their obsession with pistachio buns, you better be thinking about abundance and whether you have it. And if not, how you can get it.

Below the paywall:

• The Laneige peach tea lip mask defining abundance for Gen Z

• “A world where we have unlimited maximum flourishing of humanity - to the stars!” A glimpse of Demis Hassabis’s AI utopia

• “I have much developed my ability to prioritise. Important things: Love, Kindness, Meaning. Not important: Money, Status, Validation.” What three years in Gaza and a death sentence taught one aid worker