Редактирование: Christopher Altman (раздел)

===  Next-generation government leadership in a post-scarcity economy ===
A recurring theme of interest has been the role of next-generation government leadership in a post-scarcity economy and the capacity for governance to adapt and evolve to meet the novel features of this new environment.<ref name=":21">[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a510097.pdf Leadership in the Era of the Human Singularity—New Demands, New Skills, New Response]. Kunstler, Barton. Department of Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC.mil). Office of the Director of National Intelligence. US Army War College for Strategic Leadership. The Proteus Monograph Series, Volume 2, Issue 4 (2008-10-01).</ref> Black Rock City provides the sole large-scale experimental test-bed on the planet for this question for two weeks per year—transforming from empty desert into analogue posthuman, post-scarcity society.<ref name=":23">[http://superconducting.blogspot.com/2012/09/synergy-strike-force.html Synergy Strike Force: Pentagon Field Operations for Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid]. The Next Generation of Government Leadership in a Post-Scarcity Economy. Altman, Christopher. Cohærence * and Quantum Technology (2012-09-24).</ref>:<blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid #ccc;" data-ve-attributes="{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;border-left: 5px solid #ccc;&quot;}">The collective of Black Rock City itself serves as a large-scale technology, behavioral psychology and social network test bed, providing the world’s only experimental incubator for the study of a post-scarcity economy, a subject of intense scrutiny to government leadership and intelligence organizations around the world who would seek to justify their continued existence through the wake of the transitions enabled by this technological convergence—as concurrent advances such as those in nanotechnology and three-dimensional printing make such antiquities of currency and corporations wholly obsolete. <br><br>Why go to the store to buy a computer, electronics, or pharmaceutical drugs when the open-source plans to manufacture and print them at the molecular scale with a nanoscale three-dimensional printer are widely available on the Internet? Witness the contemporary impact to the music and movie industries. In the 1990's major industry associations such as the RIAA and MPAA were embroiled in a losing power struggle to counter an existential threat to their foundations and their very existence—the threat of rampant music and Hollywood film piracy—enabled by widespread internet use and the advent of file sharing technologies. The spread of mature nanoscale manufacturing capabilities presents the same kind of existential threat to any producer of material goods—and by proxy, to the governments regulating that market. </blockquote>