Fill in the Blanks Abundance is our futureOnline version Video activity - transcript by Bia Aguiar 1 gold mentality possibility utensils everybody aluminum scarcity technology valuable worth cheap left force When I think about creating abundance , it's not about creating a life of luxury for on this planet ; it's about creating a life of . It is about taking that which was scarce and making it abundant . You see , is contextual , and technology is a resource - liberating . Let me give you an example . So this is a story of Napoleon III in the mid - 1800s . He's the dude on the . He invited over to dinner the king of Siam . All of Napoleon's troops were fed with silver , Napoleon himself with utensils . But the King of Siam , he was fed with utensils . You see , aluminum was the most metal on the planet , more than gold and platinum . It's the reason that the tip of the Washington Monument is made of aluminum . You see , even though aluminum is 8 . 3 percent of the Earth by mass , it doesn't come as a pure metal . It's all bound by oxygen and silicates . But then the of electrolysis came along and literally made aluminum so that we use it with throw - away .
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