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What is this generations new rush commodity?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) July 8th, 2010

In the 19th century we had a gold rush. In the 20th black gold. In the 21st century, what is a new commodity that is full of opportunity? Space? The internet?

Where is my oil field! Just point…that’s all I need.

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DarlingRhadamanthus's avatar

Alternative energy sources.

Anything dealing with quantum mechanics and altering the time-space continuum.

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rebbel's avatar

Clean, drinking water.

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Cruiser's avatar

I got one word for you son….Garbage.

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CMaz's avatar

Salt free food that taste good.

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ItsAHabit's avatar

Adequate water for agriculture.

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Dr_Lawrence's avatar

Mostly things we used to be able to enjoy and which we were foolish enough to take for granted.

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Fenris's avatar

The rush this generation is for the next big social networking app. Business is far more interested and finding the next for-pay facebook.

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stranger_in_a_strange_land's avatar

Helium-3 if fusion power becomes practical. The largest accessible source is on the moon. (The Chinese manned lunar program is no national publicity stunt).

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