Just last year, Caltech made history with their Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1). This little 50-kilogram prototype did something remarkable, it actually beamed power from space to Earth for the first time ever. China? Oh, they're thinking big. Really big. We're talking about a one-kilometer-wide orbital solar array by mid-century, capable of delivering multi-gigawatt power to Earth. Their roadmap includes a 10 kW trial satellite by 2028, scaling up to a commercial 2 GW space power station by 2050.

Fusion energy is no longer "50 years away." With over $7 billion in private funding and companies like Helion promising grid power by 2028, we're standing at the edge of an energy revolution. Imagine electricity at $0.001/kWh, making energy-intensive processes viable, reshoring manufacturing, and enabling entirely new industries. The 2025-2035 decade will determine winners and losers in tomorrow's energy economy. For business leaders, the mandate is clear: be urgently optimistic and actively prepared for a world of energy abundance.

Solar electricity costs have plummeted 90% in the past decade, while battery prices hit record lows in 2024. We're witnessing something extraordinary: energy shifting from scarce to abundant, with costs approaching zero. This isn't just about cheaper power bills. It's about reimagining entire industries, creating new business models, and transforming how we think about manufacturing, transportation, and even food production. The companies that grasp this shift now will thrive in the coming energy abundance era.

The old business playbook is dead. We're witnessing a seismic shift from scarcity to abundance, powered by plummeting costs in AI, renewable energy, and digital infrastructure. When marginal costs approach zero, traditional moats evaporate. Airbnb added 700,000 rooms without owning any. WhatsApp reached a billion users with 55 engineers. The winners? Companies building on trust, community, and experience. The losers? Anyone still hoarding resources in a world where abundance is the new reality.

We're entering an unprecedented inflection decade where three massive forces converge simultaneously: AI becoming as cheap as electricity, energy approaching near-zero cost, and aging being treated as a solvable problem. Companies like Microsoft are already buying fusion power that doesn't exist yet. Half of today's S&P 500 might vanish by 2035. The convergence isn't coming - it's here. Position yourself at the intersections, embrace exponential thinking, and don't bet against human ingenuity when constraints disappear.

Imagine waking up in a world where nobody goes hungry. Where getting sick is rare. Where work means doing what you love, not what you must. This isn’t a fairy tale. It’s what happens when we automate the right things in the right way. To reach this future, we need to build seven major systems. […]