The Ideal Society Utilizing a Resource Based Economy

[~Mystery~]

The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. A resource-based economy would utilize existing resources from the land and sea, physical equipment, industrial plants, etc. to enhance the lives of the total population. In an economy based on resources rather than money, we could easily produce all of the necessities of life and provide a high standard of living for all. There are many people today who are concerned with the serious problems that face our modern society: unemployment, violent crime, replacement of humans by technology, over-population and a decline in the Earth's ecosystems.


As you will see, The Venus Project is dedicated to confronting all of these problems by actively engaging in the research, development, and application of workable solutions. Through the use of innovative approaches to social awareness, educational incentives, and the consistent application of the best that science and technology can offer directly to the social system, The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology, and nature will be able to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.


A resource-based world economy would also involve all-out efforts to develop new, clean, and renewable sources of energy: geothermal; controlled fusion; solar; photovoltaic; wind, wave, and tidal power; and even fuel from the oceans. We would eventually be able to have energy in unlimited quantity that could propel civilization for thousands of years. A resource-based economy must also be committed to the redesign of our cities, transportation systems, and industrial plants, allowing them to be energy efficient, clean, and conveniently serve the needs of all people.



It is common in our mass-media to read and to hear commentators talk about the number of social problems that face us today, such as global warming, destruction of Earth's environment, unemployment, crime, violence, poverty, hunger, and the population explosion. Yet, how often do we hear of workable plans for alleviating many of these social problems? It is relatively simple for people to criticize society, however it's much more difficult to identify and implement plans to resolve the problems.

The Venus Project is a veritable blue-print for the genesis of a new world civilization, one that is based on human concern and environmental reclamation.

The plans for The Venus Project offer society a broader spectrum of choices based on the scientific possibilities directed toward a new era of peace and sustainability for all. Through the implementation of a resource-based economy, and a multitude of innovative and environmentally friendly technologies directly applied to the social system, The Venus Project proposals will dramatically reduce crime, poverty, hunger, homelessness, and many other pressing problems that are common throughout the world today.


The architecture and individual dwellings of future cities will evolve on an entirely different basis from today’s houses. With the intelligent application of humane technologies, we will be able to provide and allow for a wide array of unique individual homes. Their structural elements will be flexible and coherently arranged to best serve individual preference. These pre-fabricated, modular homes, embodying a high degree of flexibility inconceivable in times past, could be built anyplace one might imagine, amidst forests, atop mountains, or on remote islands.


Homes could be prefabricated of a new type of pre-stressed, reinforced concrete with a flexible ceramic external coating that would be relatively maintenance free, fireproof, and impervious to the weather. Their thin shell construction can be mass-produced in a matter of hours. With this type of construction, there would be minimal damage from earthquakes and hurricanes.


Maglev Trains

Various segments of the passenger compartments on these high-speed maglev trains can be removed as the train passes through the station. These removable sections can then take passengers to their local destinations while other compartments are lowered in their place. This method allows the main body of the train to remain in motion, thus conserving energy. In addition, the removable multi-functional compartments could be specially equipped to serve most transportation purposes.

Since military aircraft will be unnecessary in the future, emphasis can be shifted to advancing medical, emergency, service, and transportation vehicles. Here is an example of VTOL (Vertical Take-off and Landing) aircraft with three synchronous turbines, which allow for exceptional maneuverability. These delta-configuration aircraft can be controlled by electrodynamic means eliminating the need for ailerons, elevators, rudders, spoilers, flaps or any other mechanical controls. In addition to providing better maneuverability and aerodynamic qualities, this innovative technology will also serve as an anti-icing system. In the event of an emergency landing fuel will be ejected to prevent fires.

These Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft are designed to lift passengers and freight by the use of ring-vortex air columns. The helicopter in the foreground has a stationary center around which the rotors are propelled by engines at their tips. VTOL aircraft will be propelled by a variety of techniques, from ducted fans to vectored jets. They will be designed to combine the most desirable attributes of fixed winged aircraft, helicopters, and flying platforms. Transcontinental travel will be achieved through advanced aircraft and high-speed mag-lev trains, all integrated in a worldwide transportation system.



Automobiles

Streamlined cars will provide high-speed, energy efficient, and safe, long-range transportation. Some vehicles will have wheels, while others will eventually be equipped with magnetic levitation or air-floatation capabilities. Most vehicles will be equipped with voice-recognition technology that will allow the passengers to program their destination by voice command. Self-monitoring systems will tell the vehicles when service is required, and they will be able to transport themselves to service and maintenance facilities. Use of clean, non-polluting electrical energy allows for silent vehicle operation, while proximity-sensor devices linked to automated velocity and breaking systems enhance safety by enabling the vehicles to avoid collisions. As a secondary safety measure, the entire interior will be equipped with ergonomically designed air bag systems. Within the cities, horizontal, vertical, radial, and circular conveyors will serve most transportation needs.

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

[HeartofShadows]

I had an idea similar to the venus project but it was more towards giving people more options so they wouldn't have to sell their soul to corps or join the army(woo great choices).

But they both won't happen as corporations benefit from the problems in the world and if this got off the ground I can guarantee their flight will have a traumatic crash killing head members of the project, they'll be killed by snipers or some other bullshit.

[~Mystery~]

BUMP

[Sociopath]

This somewhat "Utopian" style better offer Anarchy, otherwise I'm not going along with it.

[LOON_ATTIC]

ANARCHY OR GTFO

[Thought Criminal]

The Venus project has been a real obsession of mine lately. I tripped over some propaganda for it on 420's /b/ and ended up watching the orientation video, reading the guide and agreeing with it 100%
I've been talking online to my local chapter and have plans to go to their next meeting.

[psychopath]

I did some reading on it ages ago but something about it had repulsed me lol, I'll probably check it out again some time.

[psychopath]

lol mystery i saw that, my eyes are faster than your post deleting powers

[Fractomancer]

I dunno, sounds sorta like communism...
Also DUN DUN DUN

[Thought Criminal]

Communism is a political philosophy. The venus project is not a political movement, "Politics" will be handled by a computer to choose the most logical solution for an issue. Computers cannot have an opinion, they cant misunderstand and they can retain and process more information than the human mind. The thing that makes everybody think "communism" is the idea that there would be no such thing as property, but there would simply be no need for property. The reason you value that $1,000,000 house is because you worked your fucking ass off to get it. Your not going to put up with someone simply waltzing in and hanging out, whatever. If you don't have to work to attain objects and the things you obtain are of the highest quality and there is no limit to how many of them you may have then you won't mind if somebody takes it for themselves because you can just get another.
sorry if that didn't make sense but I'm half asleep.

[HeartofShadows]

1. Human nature will screw this up.
2. Bioshock.
3. matrix.
4. terminator.
5. Brave new World

[psychopath]

edited out

[Swift]

I would like the project, but it's too intertwined with conspiracy theories.

[LOON_ATTIC]

Swift Wrote:I would like the project, but it's too intertwined with conspiracy theories.

OMG YOU'RE BACK!!!!!!

[Thought Criminal]

-.- so much bump. I actually thought Mystery was back for a second then I saw the date.

Also, Venus Project LOL. I remember this. Cool idea, would never work in reality.

[thewake]

The Venus Project always flabbergasts me because, while it claims to be some new form of economic organization, it isn't all that different from certain forms of socialism/communism that have been proposed. They vehemently deny it anytime somebody accuses them of it, but the devil's in the details. It just so happens the Venus Project wants to start off with a clean slate unmarred by the historical failures of its ideological ancestors, it it claims it isn't what it clearly is.

[Thought Criminal]

If we had the means of building such a society I certainly wouldn't be opposed. But there is just no way this would work, we don't have the technology or the resources, not to mention the obstacle of actually rebuilding the social and economic structure of the entire world. It just isn't feasible.

[thewake]

I recently acquired a copy of F. A. Hayek's The Fatal Conceit, and one of his main premises is that the institutions that have made prosperous societies prosper were actually the result of societal evolution and weren't the result of conscious reason. People, like socialists or adherents to the Venus Project, assume they can build a new social structure from scratch and establish some new consciously applied order. However, Hayek posits the idea that our economy and civilization is actually built on unconscious spontaneous order.

And, if we had the means of building a society, we probably wouldn't be human any longer.