How often do they need to be replaced? Should we make more fridges or more fridge factories so we can make even more in the future? The Venus Project doesn't have an answer to any of these questions. Or even designs for robots to accomplish every mundane task, which seem essential to the scheme. But they can tell you what the "architectural design center" will look like! Even on a conceptual level, the Venus Project's program is not revolutionary.
Chile under Salvador Allende attempted to implement a cybernetic system to manage the new socialist economy, known as Project Cybersyn short for "cybernetics synergy".
Designed by British management cybernetics theorist and former United Steel executive Anthony Stafford Beer, Cybersyn would have used a network of computers and telex machines to come to cybernetically-sound decisions for the economy, resource management, and allocation of goods and services. Similar projects were conceived by the Soviet Union and East Germany , but never implemented. It will never be known how well the system would have worked in the long run, though, as Augusto Pinochet shut it down after his coup in A common talking point from Jacque has something to do with his dislike of "money".
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He wants there to be "no money". This notion seems confused in several ways.
Let's take a look at how the Venus Project would look the same with money as without money. It's in the computers. They have to make decisions somehow, because there is scarcity.
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Jack likes to say there "won't be scarcity", but then goes on to say that decisions are made relative to the "carrying capacity of the earth". Anyways, coming at it from the other direction, where there is money, it's simple to make the same system. The money is digital, and no one works for money, they simply get a steady income. Similar to today, where some items are very cheap five cent candies! Can an individual order an interstellar spacecraft from their local robo delivery service? So you just never run out of money.
And if we get too close to "the carrying capacity of the earth", then some things will indeed be expensive enough that you might need to save a few months of income to purchase it. It seems that the Venus Project would need to be similar to the above thought experiment.
They just don't want you calling it "money". Some day far in the future, a society may even get close to this. Lots of taxes , lots of money handouts, lots of robots. Far enough in the future, and those robots may nearly be able to "eliminate scarcity".
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The Venus Project's actual plan to achieve its aims: Around , Peter Joseph, creator of the conspiracy documentary Zeitgeist , discovered Jacque Fresco and the Venus Project and liked what he saw, aligning his budding Zeitgeist Movement with the organization calling it "the activist arm of the Venus Project" and endorsing it heavily in the sequel Zeitgeist: By , this had produced a formal split between the Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Movement, with Fresco and Meadows claiming that Joseph didn't understand the Venus Project's goals and Joseph countering that Fresco's plan particularly the big feature film was unrealistic and that efforts towards a "resource-based economy" were better spent elsewhere.
Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation. The forgotten story of Chile's 'socialist internet'. Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit Fossil record. Instead, they often work to maintain the status quo and serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful. We would use scientific scales of performance for measurement and allocation of resources so that human biases are left out of the equation.
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The team completed a acre research center in Florida as the first phase of the project, and are working to get the ideas out to the public through documentaries and a film in the second phase. They also aim to construct an experimental research city. By logging into your account, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy , and to the use of cookies as described therein. Sign me up for weekly Inhabitat updates. The new documentary "The Choice is Ours" answers many of the common questions and takes away the confusion about this project: This direction is definitely the best case scenario for humanity!
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