Unscarcity
A Blueprint for Humanity’s Next Civilization
By Patrick Deglon, Ph.D.
From Maria's pink slip to the MOSAIC of Commons, Unscarcity is the instruction manual for crossing the labor cliff without burning the world. It fuses physics, AI strategy, and civic design into a plan you can interrogate and implement.
:What you'll learn
- The Foundation: turning food, shelter, energy, and care into infrastructure so survival stops depending on payroll.
- The Ascent: an Impact economy that decays, granting access to scarce frontiers through contribution instead of money.
- The MOSAIC: Data Mesh-inspired governance where Commons stay autonomous yet interoperable.
- Spark & Service: how Residents earn protection and Citizens earn a vote - humans, AI, and hybrids included.
- The EXIT Protocol: a graceful path for incumbents to join abundance without fueling revolt.
Chapter guide
1. The Foundation
Automation and fusion make essentials abundant; the system treats them like infrastructure, not commodities.
2. The Ascent
Meaning after money: Impact replaces income, decays over time, and opens genuinely scarce frontiers.
3. MOSAIC of Commons
Federated governance - boundary protocols, proof-of-diversity, and transparent ledgers keep autonomy without chaos.
4. Residents & Citizens
Spark Threshold for existence rights; Civic Service for influence rights. Consciousness earns residence, stewardship earns a vote.
5. Education of a Citizen
Guild-style learning and purpose missions replace factory schooling to prepare Commons stewards.
6. The Cognitive Field
Consent-first neural commons: shared memory and simulation with personal firebreaks and entropy injectors.
7. The EXIT or the Fire
A plan to convert today’s capital and power into tomorrow’s Impact - before panic sparks revolt.
8. Geopolitics of Abundance
Resilient alliances, transparent AI counsel, and supply webs that outlast shocks.
9. The Next Thousand Years
Long-term stewardship: building institutions that outlast us, seeding abundance across generations.
Research & Companions
Each chapter has a companion note plus research on the Baseline, Impact, MOSAIC, Spark, and EXIT.
Start with the Preamble
Read or listen to "The Paradox" - the opening essay that frames Maria, Adewale, and the choice between Star Wars and Unscarcity.
About the author
Patrick Deglon, Ph.D.Patrick is a Swiss-American physicist and technology leader whose career spans CERN, Google, and global AI innovation. He founded Blue Fermion, a California-based AI product lab, and writes at the intersection of science, ethics, and the systems that shape humanity's future.
Unscarcity distills decades of engineering rigor, civic experimentation, and AI strategy into a field manual for designing societies beyond material shortage.
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