Prospenomics: abril 2026

PROSPENOMICS

Prospenomics, also known as Prospenomia, is the study of prosperity and its generators, aiming to pave a path towards Post-Scarcity. Through an economic and social approach that transcends the conventional paradigms of known economic theory, which often associates relatively low abundance with hard and inefficient work and fails to distribute well-being among individuals, paying little attention to the depletion of resources on the planet. The field of Prospenomics arises from the urgent need to rethink current economic and social models. To achieve this, we must study all known forms of prosperity, from intelligent decisions made in ancient times to the fictions of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, envisioning a future where prosperity is abundant, where no longer uses monetary fractions for the exchange of goods and services, and people work to satisfy their talents and ambitions for personal upliftment; or also the ideas of Buckminster Fuller, in which prosperity was not limited solely to the accumulation of material wealth or economic growth but rather ensuring well-being and sustainability for all forms of life on the planet. BASIC ARGUMENT OF PROSPENOMICS/PROSENOMY by Luiz Pagano, Setembro de 2007

sexta-feira, 24 de abril de 2026

Prospenomics Prize 2026

The Prospenomics Prize exists to objectively reveal who the individuals are that are truly leading humanity toward post-scarcity, not through rhetoric or visibility, but through concrete actions that expand the world’s productive capacity, transform waste into resources, improve governance systems, and elevate quality of life. By identifying these agents, the prize helps organize collective perception around those who are actually building the future, allowing us to recognize, in the present, those who will stand at the origin of a broader, more efficient, and more accessible prosperity. This is not about fame, discourse, or visibility. It is about measurable impact in what truly matters: producing more with less, reducing waste, improving systems, and expanding human possibilities.

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The core idea is based on a simple but often overlooked principle: prosperity is not merely the distribution of existing wealth, but the continuous expansion of what can be produced, transformed, and accessed. In this context, post-scarcity is not a distant utopian state, but an ongoing process driven by individuals who increase efficiency, create new solutions, and intelligently reorganize systems.

To make this identification clear and operational, the prize is structured around four fundamental axes. The first is capacity generation, recognizing those who expand what the world is capable of producing, whether through energy, automation, space exploration, or productivity gains. The second is the transformation of waste into resources, reflecting the idea that in a well-designed system nothing is truly disposable, only underutilized.

The third axis is integrity-driven governance, both public and private, focusing on those who demonstrate that it is possible to operate with real efficiency, low corruption, minimal self-serving behavior, and decisions oriented toward the collective good. The fourth is human and planetary quality of life, recognizing initiatives that directly improve people’s lives and environmental balance.

The prize does not aim to create another symbolic list. It proposes something more ambitious: to build a public language for recognizing real prosperity. By highlighting agents who effectively move the world in this direction, the initiative creates reference points, directs attention, and helps align perception with impact.

This is the foundation. In the following parts, the names, applied criteria, and selection process are presented.

To organize this identification in a clear and participatory way, the prize is structured into four categories, each representing a key axis of real prosperity.

Category: Capacity Generation and Post-Scarcity

1. Wang Xingxing (China), has drastically reduced the cost of robotics with accessible and scalable quadrupeds, democratizing automation

2. Zhang Kejian (China), leads the Chinese space program with advances in the Moon and Mars, expanding human capability beyond Earth

3. Fredrik Asplund (Sweden), at ABB, drives global industrial automation and production with decreasing marginal costs

4. Elon Musk (USA), through SpaceX and Tesla, accelerates both space exploration and energy transition at scale

Category: Waste to Resource (Circular Economy)

1. Boyan Slat (Netherlands), founder of The Ocean Cleanup, leads large-scale removal of plastic from oceans

2. Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (Sierra Leone), promotes urban reforestation and environmental restructuring in Freetown, reducing heat and recovering resources

3. Fionn Ferreira (Ireland), develops microplastic removal technology using ferrofluid

4. David Katz (Canada), founder of Plastic Bank, transforms plastic waste into social currency

Category: Integrity Governance

1. Maia Sandu (Moldova), leads reforms with strong anti-corruption efforts and institutional strengthening

2. Fumio Kishida (Japan), works on rule-based international stability and regional cooperation

3. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Nigeria), leads the WTO promoting balance in global trade

4. Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore, historical reference), a model of efficient governance and low corruption still used as a benchmark

Category: Human and Planetary Quality of Life

1. Tatiana Lobo Coelho de Sampaio (Brazil), researches neural regeneration with potential to restore mobility to people with spinal injuries

2. Jennifer Doudna (USA), co-creator of CRISPR, enabling the elimination of genetic diseases

3. Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia), led peace agreements and efforts toward regional stabilization

4. Demis Hassabis (UK), applies AI to science, accelerating medical and biological discoveries

These names represent real fronts of transformation. The prize does not aim to create popularity, but to direct attention toward those who are effectively building a world with greater capacity, less waste, better governance, and higher quality of life.

How Prospenomics Differs from Simple Economics

If economy traditionally focuses on the exchange of wealth among humans, it differs exponentially from *prospenomics, which focuses on the relationships of prosperity and ecological balance of the planet as a whole. While the economy traditionally focuses on monetary aspects and the distribution of resources among humans, prospenomics broadens this perspective to consider global prosperity, in which the life of any living being, no matter how insignificant it may seem to humans, if negatively affected, will adversely affect the well-being of all life forms and the sustainability of the planet. "While Economics operates in a monophonic mode, focusing on the exchange of wealth within human relationships, Prospenomics operates in a stereophonic mode, considering the broader scope of prosperity and ecological balance across the planet." Luiz Pagano

BASIC ARGUMENT OF PROSPENOMICS

Individual wealth is not prosperity - prosperity only happens when the group achieves wealth in harmony ....Socialism fails by focusing too much on equality – by inhibiting ancestral human instincts, society tends to a lack of satisfaction, of freedom and leading the economy to collapse in semi-poverty; ....Capitalism fails by focusing too much on selfishness – making people believe that the unequal accumulation of resources is good for society, causing poverty and imbalance opportunities; ....Prospenomy is a third option in which the exploitation of resources with balance and intelligence creates post-scarcity, favoring a community that prospers by logic, real dedication to talents and by the fraternal spirit.

PROSPENOMICS

Before the Industrial Revolution, we lived with immediate resources, we ate what we hunted and harvested, we had full harmony with the other nearly 9 million species. With the agricultural revolution, we started to have surplus production, which created the need for us to develop new algorithms to adapt to these brilliant new realities. We had to create currency exchange, banks, we had to abandon the nomadic life to stabilize ourselves in cities and we started to have to worry about surplus transportation and security against theft and robbery. START OF PLANETARY DISARMONY We started to move away from planetary harmony, generating urban sewage and unbalanced waste. The industrial revolution has further increased this mismatch and today we have reached the point where we put at risk the delicate balance of the other species that until then lived in harmony, we have reached the point of having to worry about our own possible extinction. We emerged as a new super organism just like the existing ones of ants, bees and termites, with the difference that these social systems had time to adapt to the planet, about 150 million years ago - the human superorganism has no more than 30,000 years. Bees, for example, rely on social functioning algorithms governed by pheromones, astronomical observations, and also have elaborated communication skills. Soldiers and workers interact with drones and the queen, with a great degree of adaptation to the flows of life on the planet, in an enviable way, it is a highly symbiotic society, with essential pollination and feeding functions, serving an infinity of other species. The algorithms that runs on societies of social insects are infinitely more efficient than ours, because their systems are completely integrated and do not generate harmful side effects like ours. CHANGE FROM PARASITE TO SIMBIONT The good news is that we don't have to feel so guilty - this stage of human evolutionary maladjustment was necessary, it had to happen as it did, but it needs to be revised. We needed to go through this evolution and consequent imbalance, and now we have the task of finding new behavioral algorithms, more productive in relation to planetary harmony. Going back is not a logical option, what we have to do from now on is to find new behavioral algorithms that will allow us to better integrate the human superorganism into life on Earth. THIS IS THE MAIN GOAL OF PROSPENOMICS In a PROSPENOMIC SOCIETY we seek our own prosperity, but we also aim to promote the evolution of other forms of life on the planet, in a healthy, harmonious and dynamic way. We fully understand that our current society is acting in a parasitic way, with highly inappropriate, extremely inelegant behavior algorithms - We do that among us, human beings, causing hunger, misery and death of an important marginalized fraction, as well as harming the other species of living beings, causing the degradation of all biomes, changing the atmospheric composition and promoting accelerated extinction. Our conduct algorithms are extremely poorly integrated with the needs of the planet, we generate surplus waste, noise and light pollution, with highly harmful repercussions. PROSPENOMIC is the science that will enable the formation of a planetary consciousness in which human protagonism will create new algorithm of social conduct that will allow us to leave the current problematic civilizatory adolescence for full maturity, in which the planet will prosper in full balance.

Luiz Pagano

Luiz Pagano is a multi-talented individual who has made significant contributions to Brazilian culture in various fields. As a concept artist and illustrator, he is the creator of the Tupi-Pop movement, which blends elements of Brazilian culture, particularly those of the indigenous Tupi people, with pop culture references. He has also worked on projects such as the TEMBIU Project, which aims to bring elements of Amazonian gastronomy to high-end cocktails, and the CAPIVARA PARADE 2016, an ecological recovery campaign in urban centers. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Pagano has a background in the corporate world, particularly in introducing products to the Brazilian market. He has introduced several well-known brands to Brazil, including Flash Power, Franziskaner Weiss Bier, Löwenbräu, Russian Vodkas from the ZAO Veda group, and Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. He has also worked as the On Premise Manager at Red Bull in Brazil and was responsible for Brand Education at Pernod Ricard for nine years. Pagano's most significant project, however, is CAUIM TIAKAU, which involves rescuing the ancestral fermented cassava drink, creating a new commercial category of Cauim, and promoting Brazilian ancestral culture to the general public. Through his various endeavors, Pagano has demonstrated a passion for preserving and promoting Brazilian culture, both within Brazil and around the world.