Includes bibliographical references and index.

Our grandest challenge --Building the pyramid --Seeing the forest through the trees --It's not as bad as you think --Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button --The singularity is nearer --
The tools of cooperation --Water --Feeding nine billion --
The DIY innovator --The technophilanthropists --
The rising billion --Energy --Education --Health care --
Freedom --Driving innovation and breakthroughs --
Risk and failure --Which way next?

Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast. In Abundance, space entrepreneur turned innovator Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, infinite computing, ubiquitous broadband networks, digital manifacturing, nanomaterials, synthetic biology, and many other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two hundred years. We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.