· 'History is a race between education and catastrophe.' - H. G. Wells · 'Because of the interconnectedness of all minds affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take.' - Willis Harman · 'Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.' - James Russel ‘Let’s be optimistic Pessimism is for better times.'
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Sustainable Abundance is not a forecast, but a possibility, a scenario that will follow the same format as the other scenarios described in Chapter 4. It assembles all the pieces of the puzzle identified up to this point. Sustainable Abundance will be explored through 'A Visit to the Stanford Campus'. This story highlights the role of three overlapping waves - a Value-Shift Wave, an Information Wave and a Money Wave - in creating Sustainable Abundance. In conclusion, the relationships between Sustainable Abundance and the other scenarios outlined earlier are analysed. A Visit to the Stanford Campus The other day, I was fiddling with some of the unfamiliar handles of the Time-Compacting Machine (Chapter One), and suddenly something quite unexpected happened. I ended up doing some accidental time travel to the campus of Stanford University on the first day of the academic year. Here is a report of what I found. A Time Travel Report