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# Glossary of Definitions

## A new lens through which to see the world

This glossary lays out the key terms that describe how disruption unfolds, why the old system is collapsing, and how a new one is emerging. Each definition is a reference point for understanding the transformation sweeping every sector of society.

These are the concepts you need to navigate the transformation reshaping how you see the world and your place in it.

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#### **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.

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Stanford University School of Medicine

> A masterpiece. A profoundly important and frame-changing book. Truly original. It reveals the shallowness of our current understanding of humanity.

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Robert Gibbins

Founder Autonomy Capital

> A bold and inspiring vision of humanity's future... I believe this book will spark meaningful global dialogues.

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Mukesh Ambani

Chairman, Reliance Industries

> This momentous idea will have far-reaching impact on civilization and humanity.

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Siri Jirapongphan

Former Minister of Energy, Thailand

> 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.

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Founder & CEO Beaverbrook Energy Ltd

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