Our future depends on optimists like Diamandis, and his new book, "Abundance," written with the journalist Steven Kotler, is an enthusiastic take on what's to come.
College basketball threw in something far more interesting Wednesday night with Temple toppling No. 3 Duke, exposing a lack of toughness in the Blue Devils that the Owls had in abundance, writes Mike Jensen in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Whatever the components of style are -- confidence, cool, grace, and don't forget black leather -- 'The Matrix' has it in abundance," writes Karen Haber in "Exploring the Matrix" (St. Martin's), a new collection of essays that probe the cultural influences of the film.
Multiply the atomic mass of each isotope by its percent abundance (written as a decimal).
"We work to increase our share in the American abundance," they write.
Not since the dictatorship that shook the country in the 1970s has there been such an abundance being written.
"Cheaper credit through monetary easing doesn't yield much in an era when cheap capital already exists in abundance," Mr. Alpert writes.
In Abundance, I wrote about my friend Rob McEwen, chairman of Goldcorp, who literally mined his data for gold bullion.
Several critics theorized about the effects of the shift from scarcity to abundance of written material in the media as a result of the technologies introduced by the Internet.
"There is venality in abundance here," he writes at one point, "and the general air of surrender, of helplessness, is the most heart-breaking thing about it.
"I had expected them to look like abundance itself," she writes, "and they looked instead like anxiety, because every time I came back there was another rotten one or two or three or dozen to cull".
