ISE Board member Blair Taylor draws our attention to an amusing illustrated review of images of post-scarcity in science fiction, and the ways in which the narrative seems invariably pulled along by the introduction of a uniquely scarce essential need. Might this say more about the limits of our imagination than any inherent tendency toward scarcity in human societies?
See http://io9.com/post-scarcity-societies-that-still-have-scarcity-1640882232.
