“Finite players play within boundaries; infinite players play with boundaries.”

Must progress come to an end – either in catastrophe or in some sort of completion – or is it unbounded? The answer is the latter. That unboundedness is the ‘infinity’ referred to in the title of this book. Explaining it, and the conditions under which progress can and cannot happen, entails a journey through virtually every fundamental field of sc... See more

A system predicated on perpetual growth cannot be reconciled with a finite planet.