About Stellar

A world beyond limits and how to get there

A bold re-examination of the past, present, and future of humanity

Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define our times.

Stellar uncovers the root causes of today’s biggest challenges, from war and economic instability to inequality and environmental collapse. It reveals why solutions to these issues are little more than band-aids, why our political and economic structures are failing, and how to unlock humanity’s full potential.

Stellar reimagines what’s possible - a world that gives rather than takes from both people and planet. A Stellar World where today’s pressing issues simply dissolve, where humanity can thrive, free from fear, scarcity, and despair.

Meet the authors

James Arbib is a technology investor and the founder of Tellus Mater, an independent philanthropic foundation dedicated to exploring the impacts of disruptive technology and its potential for solving some of the world’s most challenging problems.

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

James and Tony connected through their individual quests to answer the same two fundamental questions: How can we collectively solve the world’s problems? And what will the impact of rapid technological change be on society?

More About the Authors

X-Flow

X-flow (n): The constant flow of inputs of land, labor, and capital needed to produce useful outputs in the extractive production system. These inputs are external, excludable, extractive, and depleting.

Growth Imperative

Growth imperative (n): The need to maximize growth, over the timescales that matter competitively (economically, technologically, militarily, and geographically), which results from the competitive dynamics that stem from a production system that needs a constant flow of scarce inputs.

Extractive Technology

Extractive technology (n): Technology that requires a constant flow of finite, scarce materials and labor to produce useful outputs, with toxic outputs as an inevitable by-product.

Extraction

Extraction (n): The era when civilizations emerged built around the need to maintain a constant flow of inputs (X-flow) into a production system.

Stellar Technology

Stellar technology (n): Technology that produces useful output with no extractive flow of inputs and no toxic outputs.

Stellar System

Stellar system (n): A system (business model, value chain, market structure/regulatory framework, ownership model) based on Stellar technologies.

Radiance

Radiance (n): The capacity to use the super production of energy and labor inherent in a Stellar production system to help restore the destruction of extraction.

Ignition Point

Ignition point (n): The point at which Stellar technologies have enough super production embodied that they can produce output with no further extractive input. The system becomes capable of sustaining itself indefinitely and increasing its output.

Stellar World

Stellar World (n): A society organized around a production system based on Stellar technologies, where land, labor, and capital are embodied in the system. People and planet transcend the system of production.

Rupture Point

Rupture point (n): The point at which the negative feedbacks keeping a system stable break down. Change becomes inevitable.

Chimera

Chimera (n): A compromised product, “solution,” or system that arises from placing Stellar technologies within extractive organizing structures.

Band-aid

Band-aid (n): An intervention to staunch or redirect the X-flow. Not a cure. (Might have some benefit in buying time, alleviating symptoms, or preventing collapse temporarily.)

A true masterpiece of our time. This book is urgently needed right in this critical moment.

James Ehrlich

Stanford University School of Medicine

New energy technologies offer a future of energy abundance and prosperity. Stellar outlines that we can get there, if we want it. There's all to fight for.