Post scarcity or post-scarcity describes a hypothetical form of economy or society, often explored in science fiction, in which things such as goods, services and information are free, or practically free. This would be due to an abundance of fundamental resources (matter, energy and intelligence), in conjunction with sophisticated automated systems capable of converting raw materials into finished goods, allowing manufacturing to be as easy as duplicating software.This is not a utopian vision. Raw materials must always be used -- but not necessarily money. There is no free lunch, but not when you start talking about money -- this is because physical possibility is not dictated by money (but perhaps instead by limits to creativity ;-)). It is important to realize that money is our tool for essentially ration unit tokens within an arbitrary societal framework for doling out resources out of perceived scarcity. As for manufacturing to be as easy as duplicating software, automated manufacturing, in today's civilization, is based off of tech that has schematics. These schematics are digital - the tech is creating itself, this is about harnessing that, perhaps one day to make a von Neumann probe or astrochicken. But is it possible? Are self-replicating machines possible? The past four billion years of biology say yes, absolutely, cells and DNA are the units of life itself. But biology is not enough. You have to do amorphous fabrication with cells, and translating human thoughts into parallel executable code is not something that humans are trained to do -- we think linearly, we write line by line; the amorphous computation problem is being extensively studied, however, and indeed is something that should not be ignored (see synthetic biology, biohack, diybio, biopunk, oww, bbf/parts, etc.). You'd need to work on amorphous compilers. So, while the biobrick registry could be included in metarepo, other projects towards solid state self-replication would also be implicated, even those that don't seem to be "on topic" such as electric-arc welding, or methods of making a hot cup of coffee.
From this combination of passion and inventiveness I began to get a sense that what these students are really doing is reinventing literacy. Literacy in the modern sense emerged in the Renaissance as mastery of the liberal arts. This is liberal in the sense of liberation, not politically liberal. The trivium and the quadrivium represented the available means of expression. Since then we've boiled that down to just reading and writing, but the means have changed quite a bit since the Renaissance. In a very real sense post-digital literacy now includes 3D machining and microcontroller programming. I've even been taking my twins, now 6, in to use MIT's workshops; they talk about going to MIT to make things they think of rather than going to a toy store to buy what someone else has designed. The World Bank is trying to close the digital divide by bringing IT to the masses. The message coming back for the fab labs is that rather than IT for the masses the real story is IT development for the masses. Rather than the digital divide, the real story is that there's a fabrication and an instrumentation divide. Computing for the rest of the world only secondarily means browsing the Web; it demands rich means of input and output to interface computing to their worlds. There was an amazing moment as I was talking to these Army generals about how the most profound implication of emerging technology for them might not lie in designing a better weapon to win a war, but rather in giving more people something else to do. So we're now at a cusp where personal fabrication is poised to reinvent literacy in the developed world, and to engage the intellectual capacity of the rest of the world.
I'd suggest relabeling "singularity" before you look for serious money. What you are really talking about is breaking the one brain one lifespan limit to the growth of intelligence.