Innovation Opens Doors to Self-Sufficiency & Dematerialization
TREND #4

Since the 1960s, we’ve seen the Malthusian “Limits to Growth” mindset repeatedly discredited by real world progress. Why? Because innovation continues to let us do more with less. In the process, mankind has moved ever-closer to what the Trends editors call the dematerialization frontier; that’s the point beyond which a civilization consumes finite resources at a declining rate, even as wealth continues .....

Since the 1960s, we’ve seen the Malthusian “Limits to Growth” mindset repeatedly discredited by real world progress. Why? Because innovation continues to let us do more with less. In the process, mankind has moved ever-closer to what the Trends editors call the dematerialization frontier; that’s the point beyond which a civilization consumes finite resources at a declining rate, even as wealth continues .....