Unscarcity
A Blueprint for Humanity’s Next Civilization
By Dr Patrick Deglon
In a world obsessed with scarcity—of money, time, and meaning—Unscarcity offers a radical reframe. Patrick Deglon, a physicist turned AI strategist, maps what happens when automation, fusion power, and planetary-scale intelligence dissolve material limits.
What does purpose look like after work? Who governs when AI can coordinate better than bureaucracies? How do we measure value when cost disappears? This blueprint blends systems thinking, ethics, and futurist engineering into a toolkit for designing resilient, meaningful societies.
What You’ll Learn
- The 90% Baseline & 10% Frontier: How to guarantee food, housing, healthcare, and education as infrastructure while keeping ambition alive through earned access to frontier tech.
- Merit without Money: Civic standing that cannot be bought, inherited, or hoarded—tracked only through contribution and allowed to decay over time.
- AI as Referee, Humans as Conscience: A governance mesh where transparent AI coordinates logistics while people set values and retain override power.
- The CORE-5 Safeguards: Five unbreakable rules to prevent tyranny in a world of abundant intelligence and energy.
- Transition Playbooks: Dual-track pathways to build the new alongside the old—pilot cities, open blueprints, and civic observability borrowed from Demeterics.
Who It’s For
- • Technologists & AI builders
- • Policymakers & civic designers
- • Urban planners & economists
- • Investors weighing post-scarcity bets
- • Researchers of ethics & consciousness
- • Curious citizens shaping what comes next
Formats & Launch
- Hardcover: Amazon (launch)
- Paperback: Amazon
- Kindle: Amazon Kindle Store
- Audio: Preamble available now on Spotify; full narration follows print launch.
Join the launch list to be notified when pre-orders open and when the hardcover ships.
Hear the Preamble Chat with the Unscarcity CopilotListen: Preamble on Spotify
Preview the book with the opening essay “A Civilization Worthy of Its Tools.”
About the Author
Patrick Deglon, PhD, is a Swiss-American physicist and technology leader whose career spans CERN, Google, and global AI innovation. He writes at the intersection of science, ethics, and the systems that shape humanity’s future.
Unscarcity distills decades of engineering rigor, civic experimentation, and AI strategy into a field manual for designing societies beyond material shortage.
Free Preamble
A Civilization Worthy of Its Tools — available now as an audio-first preamble.
Listen on Spotify