{"id":5365,"date":"2014-10-05T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T13:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social-ecology.org\/wp\/?p=5365"},"modified":"2015-03-24T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T01:15:20","slug":"scarcity-post-scarcity-scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social-ecology.org\/wp\/2014\/10\/scarcity-post-scarcity-scifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarcity and Post-scarcity in SciFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISE Board member Blair Taylor draws our attention to an <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/post-scarcity-societies-that-still-have-scarcity-1640882232\" target=\"_blank\">amusing illustrated review <\/a>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.\u00a0 Might this say more about the limits of our imagination than any inherent tendency toward scarcity in human societies?<\/p>\n<p>See <a 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