The classical factors of production—land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship—provide a compact framework for analyzing scarcity and growth. This paper uses that framework to argue that a converging “Tech Stack” (advanced AI, robotics, abundant energy systems, and lower-cost space transportation) could relax several binding constraints on each factor, with important implications for prices, work, and the distribution of welfare gains. Drawing on 2025–2026 signals and secondary sources (e.g. labor-market risk assessments, corporate scaling narratives, and commodity-market commentary), the paper sketches a scenario-based transition window (approximately 2026–2040). It highlights potential institutional buffers such as scalable retraining systems, dividend-like distribution mechanisms tied to abundant energy, and policy approaches that target safety and market power while supporting experimentation. Two appendices provide (i) speculative 2045 vignettes and (ii) context for the broader Homo Novus series.
Lon Douglas Waford (2026) studied this question.