A challenge worthy of your magnificent machines

You are the people who aim absurdly high — solving physics, automating human creativity, colonising Mars, defeating death, wrapping the sun in solar panels. That calibre of power and ambition is exactly what humanity's first goal is still waiting for. Literally its first: Goal 1 of the seventeen that 193 nations signed up to reach — ending extreme poverty everywhere on the planet by 2030. They gave themselves fifteen years. On every current projection the world will miss the deadline — it went in armed with summits, declarations, and advice.

But everyone knows this scene: the timer running down, the wires exposed, everyone bracing for the worst — and the hero drops out of the air duct, wire cutters in hand, twelve seconds before the blast.

A new almighty intelligence has just arrived on the planet. You built it. The air duct is right there.

Wouldn't it be most impressive if the era of universal abundance arrived — against all odds — on schedule?

“I would be impressed.”

— Em Lenartowicz

Abundance will not distribute itself.