DesigningtheFuture.pdf

Jacque Fresco

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Table of Contents

Introduction

A Future by Design

Your Challenge

Chapter One

From 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

INTRODUCTION

A Future by Design

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 genera-

tion inherits the values, accomplishments, hopes, successes, and failings 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 tech-

nologies were simple or non-existent, this may have had little impact on hu-

man life and the earth that sustains it. Each generation of hunters and gath-

erers, then plowmen and pioneers, passed on tools to the next generation to

help 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 its parent’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 docu-

ments and proclamations have been 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 be-

yond the present moment, and forecasts of the future were based on non-

scientific methods. Prophets and sages presented visions of the future based

on dreams, hallucinations, religious fervor, divination of animal parts, crystal

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 low points, geological

hot and cold spots, where people live, and the warming of the planet. This

has given us, for the first time, the ability to monitor the health of the planet,

which many scientists see as in serious, if not critical, condition.

In a single day, trillions of bits of scientific data zip through cyberspace

at light-speed, making a high-tech civilization possible. While physical sci-

ence and technology silently direct much of the action, millions of people

around the globe still practice pseudo-science, using fortune-tellers, seers,

and philosophers for their daily direction. Many world leaders regularly con-

sult psychics, mediums, and astrologers for guidance in decisions that deter-

mine the fate of millions.

Present human activity and its consequences does not have to be

shaped by the needs and values of our ancestors. In fact, it must not be. For

instance, armed conflict between nations is still seen by many as the only

way to settle differences. It is especially promoted by those who profit hand-

somely from the sale of armaments. This is now totally unacceptable and

dangerous because of war’s extreme human and environmental costs.

A militant viewpoint is obsolete once we view the world as a whole in-

terrelated system with all its people as one family. Managing accelerating

changes in technology and managing ourselves require new outlooks and

approaches. This is now both necessary and possible because of techno-

logical change.

These lessons are designed to challenge the reader to direct the future;

not just one’s own, but that of society in general; and not just for one’s own

generation, but for those to follow. Not only is science making it possible, it is

now vital.

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