You may have heard various tech voices say that we are headed to an age of abundance. This idea may seem cuckoo, but it is worth understanding where it comes from.

Back in 1999, Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun (think of it as the NVDA of its day), while pitching 'the network is the computer,' said that one day our light bulbs will be connected to the web. I remember thinking no way, because of price and size, and why would we want that anyway? Yet here we are. They are not only connected, they are smart. The tech bros can extrapolate the technology line and have a fairly accurate perception of the future.

Today we already have 'software abundance': with modern tools you can dream and build any software in the blink of an eye. Your dreams, your curiosity, your ideas are the constraint, not the tokens. If one lives in this world day to day, it is natural to extrapolate to the physical world. It will take time, like self-driving did, but the direction is clear. AI, robots, cheap energy imply abundance.