Unscarcity

We have the tools to build abundance. What we lack is the operating system to run it.

One in four jobs will transform by 2030. Nearly 40 percent of today's core skills are on track to change. AI and automation are already reshaping healthcare, finance, creative work, and manufacturing. The future of work isn't coming. It's here.

When automation displaces millions of workers, who buys the products? When a humanoid robot works for 69 cents an hour, what happens to human labor? When AI writes code, diagnoses disease, and composes music better than we do, what do eight billion people do with their lives?

Our economy runs on a loop. People work, earn wages, spend those wages, and companies use the spending to pay more workers. Break the wage step and the whole mechanism seizes. Not just for the unemployed. For everyone. Robots can produce infinite goods, but robots don't buy groceries.

Most books about AI and the future of jobs offer warnings without exits. Unscarcity offers a blueprint. Not utopia, not dystopia, but an engineering manual for civilization's next chapter: the 90/10 Framework, where abundance covers life's essentials as a right and contribution, not capital, earns a voice on the frontier. A federated network of self-governing communities replaces the nation-state-or-corporation binary and honors radically different ways of life.

What you'll find inside:

• How to guarantee access to food, housing, energy, and healthcare without creating dependency or tyranny
• Why purpose, not money, becomes the currency of a post-labor economy
• How AI can serve as referee and registrar, not ruler, with safeguards that keep abundance from collapsing into chaos or cartel
• A realistic transition path that doesn't require revolution, collapse, or a billionaire messiah. The billionaires get an exit ramp, not a throne.

A blueprint that documents its own failure modes, paired with a living companion site where every claim is sourced, updated, and open to challenge.

Written by a CERN physicist turned Google technology leader, Unscarcity pairs rigorous systems thinking with human-centered storytelling. Through characters navigating digital transformation and economic disruption firsthand, the book shows what life looks like when survival is solved and purpose becomes the question that remains.

This book is for the people building the disruption and the people living it. Engineers and founders who want to know whether their work will help or harm. Policymakers who need a framework, not another warning. And anyone, parent or professional, whose career advice has stopped making sense.

If Sapiens explained how we got here, Unscarcity maps where we go next.

The transition is coming whether we are ready or not. The question isn't whether your job will change. It's whether you'll understand why, and what comes after.

Liberty as the foundation. Contribution as the ladder. This book is the manual.