Our grandest challenge -- Building the pyramid -- Seeing the forest through the trees -- It's not as bad as you think -- Ray Kurzweil and the go-fast button -- The singularity is nearer -- The tools of cooperation -- Water -- Feeding nine billion -- The DIY innovator -- The technophilanthropists -- The rising billion -- Energy -- Education -- Health care -- Freedom -- Driving innovation and breakthroughs -- Risk and failure -- Which way next?
Summary: The authors document how four forces--exponential technologies, the DIY innovator, the Technophilanthropist, and the Rising Billion--are conspiring to solve our biggest problems. "Abundance" establishes hard targets for change and lays out a strategic roadmap for governments, industry and entrepreneurs, giving us plenty of reason for optimism