We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundanceampmdashand they are profoundly deflationary.ampnbspOur economic systems were built for a pretechnology era when labour and capital were inextricably linked an era that counted on growth and inflation an era where we made money from inefficiency. That era is over but we keep on pretending that those economic systems still work.ampnbspThe only thing driving growth in the world today is easy credit which is being created at a pace that is hard to comprehendampmdashand with it debt that we will never be able to pay back. As we try to artificially drive an economic system built for the past we are creating more than just economic trouble.ampnbspOn our current path our world will become profoundly more polarized and unsafe. We need to build a new framework for our local and global economies and soon we need to accept deflation and embrace the abundance it can bring. Otherwise the same technology that has the power to bring abundance to us and our world will instead destroy it.ampnbspIn this extraordinary contrarian book Jeff Booth a leading mind and CEO in ecommerce and technology for 20 years details the technological and economic realities shaping our present and our future and the choices we face as we go forwardampmdasha potentially alarming but deeply hopeful situation.