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Future by Design Trailer, William Gazecki Director
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JACQUE FRESCO: Future by Design movie http://www.fbdthemovie.com/order.html Future by Design shares the life and far-reaching vision of Jacque Fresco, considered by many to be a modern day Da Vinci. Peer to Einstein and Buckminster Fuller, Jacque is a self-taught futurist who describes himself most often as a "generalist" or multi-disciplinarian -- a student of many inter-related fields. He is a prolific inventor, having spent his entire life (he is now in his mid-nineties) conceiving of and devising inventions on various scales which entail the use of innovative technology. As a futurist, Jacque is not only a conceptualist and a theoretician, but he is also an engineer and a designer.
bighands69Favorites  2010-03-21 12:53:59
@walter0bz It does require energy to manipulate materials at nano scales. But the energy required is so small that it is a non issue. Nano technolgy is being developed right now and is currently in use. the computer you are using more than likely has nano technology in it. Nano technology offers the ability of advanced science and technology to be created a local and domestic level. Like a machine in you house that can create any thing you need.
walter0bzFavorites  2010-03-21 08:24:43
IMO the libertarian social system VP proposes is only possible with *decentralized* tech. As soon as you depend on (i) rare objects in specific locations (like power-plants, mines, factories), requiring (ii) LARGE collectives (eg 10,000+ people) & (iii) too much specialist knowledge.. then power structures will become emergant.. (popularity,trust) & of there will be competition to occupy, master, control the most important objects. whether its using money or guns, drugs, sexual favours etc
walter0bzFavorites  2010-03-21 08:21:19
I'm guessing that extracting the carbon takes energy (i.e. its abundant but usually bound to something else), and similarly assembling nanotech devices takes energy. R&D for nanotech takes energy. No doubt someone will get very powerful developing nanotech in future. [more..]
walter0bzFavorites  2010-03-21 08:09:18
"Technology has advanced irrelevant to government intervention. " These days I dont really distinguish between governments & corporations. Some are bigger, some are smaller than eachother. Govts might have some mopopolies in a geographic area, they're both hierarchical institutions controlling certain amount of resources & labour
walter0bzFavorites  2010-03-21 08:06:32
technology (knowledge) still needs to be filtered. given all the sourcecode or blueprints it still takes intellect & experience to filter & manipulate it. we can't even use open-source software everywhere (many peeps prefer win/mac to linux) ... but imagine an open-source CAR or DRUG(medicine). when software crashes its inconvinient.. imagine the trust network associated with blueprints for devices that can kill you when they go wrong or are manufactured incorrectly. Result - POWER.