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Scarcity will change but never go away. If we "upload" ourselves, how many copies will we be allowed to make? How fast will we be allowed to process? Even if we don't upload, and continue physically, how much real estate will we be allowed to live in? In more general terms, how much energy will we be allowd to consume? Unless we're talking magic there should continue to be a form of scarcity.
Charlie Stross' Accelerando shows a few possible levels of scarcity in a far future.
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