By 2025, Commonwealth Fusion Systems miniaturized reactors to the point of household deployment. Suddenly, energy became abundant—and cheap. During peak production hours, electricity prices dip below zero. Your toaster pays you to make breakfast.
This surplus fuels a radical shift: consumers now exchange megawatt-hours for products.
An iPhone 16 Pro? 1 MWh.
A designer handbag? 700 kWh.
Your smart home tracks generation and grants energy tokens to spend in real time.
Fashion Meets Physics
Luxury brands like LVMH launched photon couture: you select a holographic dress in your VR pod, and it’s quantum-encrypted, sent to a desktop nanofactory, and printed in 3 minutes—all powered by your living room reactor.
The End of Scarcity
This isn’t a new marketplace—it’s a civilizational phase shift.
When energy’s marginal cost hits zero, the “make-sell-consume” chain breaks down. Matter becomes an expression of creativity, not cost. E-commerce platforms dissolve into quantum idea exchanges, where designers license blueprints instead of shipping inventory.
