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the zeitgeist movement

2009 Orientation

thevenusproject.com

thezeitgeistmovement.com


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introduction

what isthe zeitgeist movement?

The Zeitgeist Movement is the

activist arm of The Venus Project

Jacque Fresco | Roxanne Meadows


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The application of The Scientific Methodfor social concern

what isthe zeitgeist movement?

introduction


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Part 1Monetary Economics

- Mechanisms and Consequences

(1) need for cyclical consumption

(2) perpetuation of scarcity

(3) priority of profit

(4) fiscal manipulation

- The Final Failure

(1) beyond irresponsibility

(2) the ultimate outsource

introduction


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PART 1MONETARY ECONOMICS

Economics Overview

Eco-nom-ics:

the social science that studies the production,distribution and consumption of goods and services.


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Economics Overview

Monetary Economics:the use of currency as a means for facilitatingthe production, distribution and consumption of

goods and services.

Fundamentally based on selling ones laboras a commodity in the open market.



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Economics Overview


Mechanism 1:The Need For 'Cyclical Consumption'


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PART 1MONETARY ECONOMICS (1) cyclical consumption

Mechanisms and Consequences

Employee

Employer

Consumer

: wage earner

: profit earner

: purchases goods/services


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Employee Employer

Consumer


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1) Nothing physically produced can ever maintaina lifespan longer than what can be endured inorder to maintain the needed cyclical consumption.

Planned Obsolescence: the deliberate withholding of efficiency

so the product in question breaksdown respectively fast.


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Planned Obsolescence-intentional- -indirect-


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2) new products and services must beconstantly introduced regardless offunctional utility.


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Cyclical Consumption

WASTE IS CONSTANT


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Question:What if we made things to last?

Answer:The economy would collapse.


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(2) abundance of scarcity

Mechanism 2:The Abundance of Scarcity


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supply demand


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scarcity profit


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scarcity profit


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Mechanism 3:The Priority of Profit


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Profit


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General Crime:

General Crime

Corporate CrimeGovernmentCrime


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General Crime:

Merva-Fowles Study

1% rise in unemployment:1990-1992

6.7% increase in homicides

3.4 % increase in violent crimes2.4 % increase in property crime

1459 additional homicides

62,607 additional violent crimes

223,500 additional property crimes


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Corporate Crime:

Planned Obsolescence

Monopolistic Collusion

Market Manipulation

Outsourcing

Price Fixing

Labor Exploitation

Governmental Collusion


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Corporate Crime:


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Government Crime:


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Role of Government:

the invention of regulatory legislationand policies to handle the functioning ofsociety.

Government Crime:


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Government

Corporate Pyramid

Government Crime:


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lobbyingcampaign

contributions

Government Crime:


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Government Crime:

WAR


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Government Crime:

War is a racket. It always has been.It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable,surely the most vicious. It is the only oneinternational in scope. It is the only one in whichthe profits are reckoned in dollars and the lossesin lives.


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Government Crime:

motivation for war:


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Government Crime:

motivation for war:

1) Industrial Profit, maximized for the elite.

2) Resource Acquisition (theft).

3) Strategic Geopolitical Alignment.


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Government Crime:


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Competition Breeds Corruption

We can not afford ethics.


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Mechanism 4:

Fiscal Manipulation


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FIAT CURRENCY



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supply demand


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PART 1MONETARY ECONOMICSPART 1MONETARY ECONOMICS



inflation deflation


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increase in the money supply:Monetary Expansion

decrease in the money supply:Monetary Contraction

economic growth

recession / depression


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CONTRACTION

EXPANSION

economic growth:the increase in the amount of the goodsand services produced by an economy over time


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what was the real growth?

Growth Contraction

M h i d C


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Business Cycle

more money less money

M h i d C


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interest rates are dictated by thecentral bank

M h i d C


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money = debt

DEBT

Mechanisms and Conseq ences


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Central Bank

Economic Control



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DEBT

INFLATION



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money supply inflation


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Money Debt

money supply

loans + interest

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure

The Final Failure:Beyond Irresponsibility

The Final Failure


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PART 1MONETARY ECONOMICS (1) beyond irresponsibility

The Final Failure

Debt of the WorldsGovernments = +$52 Trillion

+$12 Trillion

2013 = 65% Income tax

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


Corporate Pyramid

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


Upper Class:

Lower Class:

1$ Million + 5% C.D. = $50k

Loans to survive Paying Interest

The Final Failure


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Social Stratification is guaranteedby The Monetary System

The Final Failure


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Business Cycle

Growth

The Final Failure


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debt inflation

Money Debt

The Final Failure


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financial options whensigns of contraction:

1) continue the expansion by infusing evenmore money, often by lowering the interestrates making credit cheaper.

2) Let the contraction run its course,raise the interest rates, and bring theeconomy back to some kind of equilibrium.

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


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M3 2007:

$12 TRILLION

GDP 2007:

$14 TRILLION

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


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Monetary Reform?

The Final Failure


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PART 1MONETARY ECONOMICS (2) ultimate outsource

Technological Unemployment

The Final Failure


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We are being afflicted with a new disease of which some

readers may not yet have heard the name, but of which they

will hear a great deal in the years to come namely

technological unemployment. This means unemployment due

to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor,

outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses for labor.

-John Maynard Keynes

The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money

The Final Failure


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Technological Unemployment

The Final Failure


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our entire economic system isbased on human beings selling their

labor as a commodity in the open market.

The Final Failure


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The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:1949: machines did 6% of cotton harvesting.

1972: 100% of the cotton harvesting wasdone by machines.

[ AGRICULTURAL ]

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:1860: 60% of america worked in agriculture.

2009: less than 3% work in agriculture.

[ AGRICULTURAL ]

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:1950-1959: 1.6 million blue-collar jobs were lost.

[ manufacturing ]

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:1950: 33% of america worked in manufacturing.

2002: 10% work in manufacturing.

[ manufacturing ]

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:

[ manufacturing ]

-us steel industry:

1982 - 2002: production increasedfrom 75m tons to 120m tons.

1982 - 2002: employment went from 289k to 74k.

The Final Failure


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[ manufacturing ]

1995-2002:

31 million manufacturing job lost worldwide.

30% increase in productivity.

The Final Failure


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Productivity

Employment

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:2002: 82% worked in service industries

[ service ]

The Final Failure


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us labor statistics:

1983 - 1993: 37% loss of human bank tellers

2000: 90% of bank customers use ATMs

[ service ]

The Final Failure


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The service sector has lost its role as Americas

unbridled engine of job creation.

-stephen roach, economist

[ service ]

The Final Failure


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SOLUTION?


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Part 2What is Relevant?

(1) Natural Law

(2) The Scientific Method

(3) Dynamic Equilibrium

(4) Goals, Method and Tools

What is Relevant?


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PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT? (1) natural law

What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?


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What are the near-empirical aspectsof nature and what do these understandings teach us

about how we should govern our conduct on thisplanet?


What is Relevant?


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Natural Law One:

Every human needs adequate nutrition, clean airand clean water and therefore must respect the symbiotic environmeprocesses relevant to those needs.

What is Relevant?Natural Law One


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3 million tons of toxic chemicals a year



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Our behavior should be guided by thepriority of seeking the highest optimization

of circumstances that preserve andmaximize the abundance and quality of ournecessities of life.

What is Relevant?


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we must overcome any practices whichdisturb, or create the propensity to disturb,

the symbiotic environmental processes whichkeep our basic needs in order.

What is Relevant?


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Natural Law Two:

the only constant is change and human

understandings are always in transition.

What is Relevant?Natural Law Two


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Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducatedminds and fanatics

- C.J. Keyser

What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?


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Everything we think we know are only

probabilities.

What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?


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PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT?

The Scientific Method:1) recognizing a new idea or problem thatneeds to be solved.

2) the use of logical reasoning to create

a hypothesis.

3) testing of that hypothesis in thephysical world through observation.

(2) scientific method

What is Relevant?

Aristotle (384 BCE 322 BCE)


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Aristotle (384 BCE 322 BCE)

Hypothesis:a heavy object would fall faster than a lighterobject of the same shape and material in avacuum.

Galileo (1564 1642)weight does not determine the rate at which an objectfalls in a vacuum.

(2) scientific method

What is Relevant?


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PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT? (2) scientific method

Science works...

whether you believe in it or not.


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What is Relevant?


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PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT? (3) dynamic equilibrium


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What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?


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What is Relevant?Raw Materials


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1) Knowing exactly what the earth has as far ascomponent elements and materials.

2) Where technology is in regard to creatingsynthetic substitutions for certain elements andmaterials.

3) How society organizes and manages its use ofthese elements and materials.

What is Relevant?

1) Knowing exactly what the earth has as far as

Raw Materials


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1) Knowing exactly what the earth has as far ascomponent elements and materials.

What is Relevant?

2) Where technology is in regard to creating

Raw Materials


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synthetic substitutions for certain elements andmaterials.

Model by Jacque Fresco, Photo by Roxanne Meadows



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3) How society organizes and manages its use ofthese elements and materials.



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in a saner society:

1) raw materials of the planet would be assessed.

2) industry would be organized as a whole to

optimize efficiency.

3) products would be design to last.

What is Relevant?Food, Water and Air


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Design and Rendering by Jacque Fresco


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What is Relevant?

Goals, Method and Tools:


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Goals

Clean air and water and quality foodFast, Clean Transportationa Relevant education

The best scientifically possible health carethe end of warpersonal libertyreduced stressreduced crimematerial abundance

(4) goals, method, tools

What is Relevant?



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PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT?PART 2WHAT IS RELEVANT?

the scientific method

There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge ofthe universe except through the gateway of the scientific

method.

-Karl Pearson


What is Relevant?



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Technology


What is Relevant?


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process

Our GOALS (values)

the METHOD (science) of thought

and the TOOLS (technology) to get it done.



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Part 3Resource Based Economy

(1) The Venus Project

(2) Industry and Labor(3) Government

(4) Cities and Lifestyle

Resource Based Economy


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PART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY

a Resource Based Economy utilizes existingresources rather than commerce. all goods and services

are available without the use of currency, credit, barter or

any form of debt or servitude.

(1) the venus project



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PART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY (1) the venus project



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PART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY (1) the venus project


Industry and Labor:


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how do we design a production system that maximizes high qualityoutput, reduces waste, considers the dynamic equilibrium of theearth, and reduces repetitive and mechanical human labor?

PART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY (2) industry and labor


1) th l t


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1) survey the planetary resources

2) decide on what needs to be produced

3) optimization of production methods;maximizing product lifespan

4) distribution methods

5) optimized recycling


Resource Based Economy1) Survey the planetary resources


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Resource Based Economy1) Survey the planetary resources


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Model by Jacque Fresco, Photo by Roxanne Meadows

Resource Based Economy2) decide on what production is required


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What do you need?

Resource Based Economy2) decide on what production is required


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science and technology arebarometers of utilitarian human need.


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multiplicity

3) optimization of production methods


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multiplicity

planned obsolescence

Resource Based Economy3) optimization of production methods


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Resource Based Economy3) optimization of production methods


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High-efficiency labor automation, coupled with thescientifically managed resource abundance will

allowed for a fluid, near scarcity-less environmentwhich could be operated by only a very small

fraction of the population.


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who will maintain the machines?


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cybernation



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"Ultimate automationwill make ourmodern industry as primitive and outdated as

the stone age man looks to us today."

-Albert Einstein



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what is the true nature of


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a s e ue a u e oour occupational roles?

we recognize and react

to observed patterns.



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the conscious delegation ofdecision making to computers is

the next phase of social evolution.



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logical reasoning:


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g gour cognitive ability to think out solutions to problemsfrom a cause and effect standpoint,is entirely a technical process, based on the amount ofinformation we have at any one time.



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complex associations



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Terminator

Irobot

2001: a Space Odyssey


The popular idea, fostered by comic strips and the cheaper formsof science fiction, that intelligent machines must be malevolent

entities hostile to man, is so absurd that it is hardly worth wasting


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, y genergy to refute it. Those who picture machines as active enemiesare merely projecting their own aggressive[ness]. The higher the

intelligence, the greater the degree of co-cooperativeness. If thereis ever a war between men and machines, it is easy to guess who

will start it.

-Arthur C. Clarke

(2) industry and laborPART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY


[Th ] d d ill l i d l f i d


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Government

[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science andtechnology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social,

economic, and political patternsIt is safe to predict thatsuch socialinventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be

regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of

modern society to modern methods

-Dr. Ralph Linton

(3) governmentPART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY



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everything in regard tosocial organization is a

technical process.

(3) government



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The transfer of decision making tocomputers is the next phase of

social evolution.



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l b l tCybernated System:


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global resource managementand technological organization

Cybernated System:which is only responsible for the production and distribution

of goods, along with resource and environmental

management.


1) A Central Computerized Database

containing catalogs of every knownmaterial and technical understanding.


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the most efficient decisions we can makeare decisions that take into account all

known relevant variables.



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BiochemistryBiophysicsBotanyCellular biologyEcologyMedicine

MicrobiologyMolecular biologyPhysiology


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y gyZoologyAstronomyChemistryEarth sciences

PhysicsAnthropologyCommunicationCultural studiesEducationGeographyHistoryLinguistics

Political sciencePsychologySociology



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2) an earth wide autonomic sensor system,with environmental sensors in all relevant

areas of the planet, generatingIndustrial Electronic Feedback regarding

resources operations and other environmental issues


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resources, operations and other environmental issues.



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database

sensors



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3) I t di i li T f t h i i


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3) Interdisciplinary Teams of techniciansoversee the system and help orient research

projects to continue growth, efficiency

and social evolution.


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there never was a true democracy.


(1)(2)true participation in society wouldt il d t di h i t


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entail understanding how societytechnically worked.


(3)


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Thi i t l ti b d


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This is a true election, based onwhat a person has done, not what

they claim.



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incentive / reward:the fruits of society as a whole


d d d ti i iti l


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expanded education is critical


Who makes the decisions in a Resource-Basedeconomy?


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No one does.

Decisions are arrived at by the use ofThe Scientific Method


The only real problems in life arethe problems that are common

1) the production of goods and services thatare equally available to all.

2) research projects and educational systemsto expand our knowledge, understandings


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to all humans.p g g

and applications.

3) the monitoring of the earths resources

and atmosphere for feedback and possibleenvironmental problems.


Cities and Lifestyle


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PART 3RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY (4) cities and lifestyle

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Resource Based Economylifestyle


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Property

(4) cities and lifestyle



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in a resource based economy

lifestyle


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ythere is no reason for property


unrestricted access

lifestyle


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the resources of the planet are commonh it t ll th ld l

lifestyle


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heritage to all the worlds people



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Part 4Human Behavior

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(1) Nature vs Nurture

(2) The Legal System

Human Behavior

Human Nature


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PART 4HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Human Nature

(1) nature vs nurture

Human Behavior

Human Nature

: the shared psychological attributes ofhumankind that are assumed to be shared by


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humankind that are assumed to be shared byall human beings.


Human Behavior


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Human Behavior


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PART 4HUMAN BEHAVIOR (1) nature vs nurture

Human Behavior


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Human Behavior


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Human Behavior


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Human Behavior


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Human BehaviorHuman Behavior

the legal system


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(2) the legal system


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Human Behavior

Merva-Fowles Study

They found that a 1% rise in unemployment:1990-1992

There is no suchthing as a criminal


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PART 4HUMAN BEHAVIOR (2) the legal system

3.4 % increase in violent crimes2.4 % increase in property crime

6.7% increase in homicides

Human Behavior

"design out" the flaws


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design out the flaws

Human Behavior


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Human Behavior


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In Conclusion


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the old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism, to rabidnationalist fervor, are beginning not to work. a new consciousness isdeveloping which sees the earth as a single organism, and recognizes

that an organism at war with itself, is doomed.We are one planet.

-Carl Sagan

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