| From the Desk of Don Yocham:
In an unconstrained world, everyone can achieve their optimum.
You love steak, but so does everyone. No problem. No constraints mean all the steak you could want exactly as you want it.
You want to be a professional ballet dancer though you lack the physique and talent. You're in luck because an unconstrained world means you can find enough people willing to pay to watch you dance.
You fell in love with Cindy in college, but she fell for another man. Thankfully, unlimited Cindys (the one you fell in love with, not just any girl named Cindy) means you can find a Cindy that loves you back.
This is all absurd, of course. But it highlights the unavoidable fact that we live in a world with sharp boundaries within which we determine what goals we wish to pursue. Plus, we can't all have the same goals.
This is all well and good because, to my way of thinking, limitless living doesn't qualify as life.
Scarcity will always be with us one way or another. For anything to have any meaning, we need limits like we need water and air. And should technology somehow manage to eliminate one constraint, others will crop up to fill the void.
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