The Zero Marginal Cost Society*: A Personal Timeline and Three Cases（2015-2019）
This post reflects on a book published in 2015, revisited from the perspective of 2024. The Zero Marginal Cost Society (2015) presents a sweeping vision: Humanity, in order to preserve a clean and sustainable planet, must transition from centralized production to distributed production. We must build highly efficient energy networks, logistics networks, and information networks (the internet), eliminate inefficient labor and unnecessary intermediaries, integrate production and consumption, and embrace open collaboration and shared resources. The goal is to maximize resource utilization, minimize environmental depletion, shift from ownership to access, and prioritize collective ecological well-being over private accumulation. ...