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Designing the Future

Jacque Fresco

Copyright 2007 Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows

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Roxanne Meadows Bob Schilling Steve Doll

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Table of Contents
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Introduction A Future by Design Your Challenge Chapter OneFrom Yesterday to Tomorrow Chapter Two All Things Change Chapter Three Using the Scientific Method Chapter Four Existing Myths Chapter Five From One System to Another Chapter Six Future by Design Chapter Seven Cities That Think Chapter Eight Fear of Machines Chapter Nine Cities in the Sea Chapter Ten Decision Making and Laws Chapter Eleven Lifestyles Conclusion
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INTRODUCTION A Future byDesign
Are you prepared to design the future? Although many of us feel we can prepare for our future by thinking, acting, and learning using present methods and values, nothing is farther from the truth – especially in today’s rapidly changing world. A newborn child enters a world not of his or her own making. Each succeeding generation inherits the values, accomplishments, hopes, successes, andfailings of previous generations. And they inherit the results of the decisions made by those generations. For the hundreds of thousands of years of human existence when technologies were simple or non-existent, this may have had little impact on human life and the earth that sustains it. Each generation of hunters and gatherers, then plowmen and pioneers, passed on tools to the next generation tohelp them survive. Change from one generation to the next was slow and hardly noticeable. In those days there was little understanding of science and how things worked, and explanations were not scientific. This is no longer the case in today’s high-tech world where a change that affects millions may happen in a matter of seconds. A child born today inherits a world vastly different from that of itsparent’s generation, let alone that from centuries ago. Previous generations left a legacy of exploitation, occupation, and irrelevant values that present great challenges, but also opportunities to the people of today. The application of scientific principles, for better or for worse, accounts for every single advance that has improved people’s lives. Important documents and proclamations havebeen issued granting rights and privileges to members of societies, but at the heart of human progress – or destruction – is the rock-solid foundation of science. For generations past it was impossible to direct the future much beyond the present moment, and forecasts of the future were based on nonscientific methods. Prophets and sages presented visions of the future based on dreams,hallucinations, religious fervor, divination of animal parts, crystal
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balls, etc. Some may even have been accurate, but this was more because of luck than because of any direct channel to the supernatural. Now satellites circle the globe beaming down information in fractions of a second about everything that impacts our lives. This information is very valuable for projecting weather patterns, high and...