the logic of exponential intelligence, page-13

Following on Thorburn,the laws are or have been there all the time.It will be the value of the product that will dictate its cost that would make sense in the present economic sense as applied today.

It's when a technological invention such as free energy what ever that will be makes oil based products redundant,or perpetual motion for transport.

Wasn't the thought of inventing and producing during the Industrial revolution that the incentive was empire building and an individual getting super rich?.

Or was it the renaissance of a new thought in science like Newton,Voltaire Currie and Lister and hundreds of like minded new thinkers that kick started a quantum leap in the new market economy's?