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This is my current translation project at dotsub. Really good presentation about current state of technology. Can't say i could do a better one.
I had a similar idea – a portal for peer reviewing ideas.
One problem is "rating". Rankings may lead to information-cascades in this type of system as well as other problems.
Some approaches to the tasks outlined are being provided on https://trello.com and www.bettermeans.com
Well, I don't think it is the medium; but reddit is of course far from perfect.
I did see this block chain model today, but it has one obvious pillar that may not gel with TZM, but it is interesting.
It is a block chain social media fusion.
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What I would separately ask is what does success look like?
What would a good project be?
The promotion of TZM values in real terms?
Sure it's ultimately circle shaped city for starters, but what about getting from here to there?
How about something easy like creating a social media based cook book, with users fav submitted recipes? Proof that people can work together. It's odd, but easy and risk free.
Maybe fear is the teacher?
Look at the counter protest in Boston against a well know group.
15,000 turned out against what 100 Alt-R's?
Maybe people can only react against a threat?
What about ideas that don't take a lot of input?
Like a Civ based game that works on TZM principles?
THAT would work.
Players could actually see Buckmeister/Star Trek economics at work.
"As quoted in Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure (1999), by Daniel Quinn, p. 137"
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
But I can't tell you if he actually said it or not, and it doesn't really matter because I don't think it's less true even if Pocahontas says it. Mahatma Gandhi never said as far as anyone know "Be the change you want to see in the world" for example.
"Quotes doesn't prove anything" - Dave37
Agreed, this is why I post about integral theory and the associated Spiral Dynamics theory.
If that interests you, here's one of the key developers of the concept discussing it in very illustrative and interesting detail: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=7oEa9GN0T34
It's a key piece of the human side of things that TZM/RBE/TVP advocates are missing in reaching people in different stages of the "spiral" (the term used to describe various stages of evolutionary and life stages in individual/group human development) that illuminates more about how to address various differing needs within a RBE. It's significantly helped my perspectives by giving me vocabulary for specific human-side changes and I've found it enormously useful since I came across it.
Yeah me either, I find I just don't need to dump everything I read into Evernote. Lots of people apparently archive everything they can get their hands on in there.... I had issues with just finding enough interesting stuff to put in there in the first place. :) It's picked up with time though.
Come to think of it I use all sorts of strange little tools to manage my info, probably as a result of trying various ways for a few years. I have a personal little TiddlyWiki file that I put work-related stuff in that I started using before I found Evernote. It works quite well, it's basically a very small self-contained Wiki in one html file. You can even add in plugins to it - better tags, better search etc. Fun tool, all that in one html file.
Firstly I think you should read up on deGrasse, rather than take me word on if his a technocrat or not (even though I'm not sure that, that even really matters really). Secondly if you had checked out the list of books his given, you'd notice this:
6.) The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (eBook – Audio Book) - “to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.”
Besides that the other books he mentions (with his reasoning for listing them) all have a basic truth they are trying to communicate. Truth is on our side, we should not be afraid of it, regardless of what it is trying to say. Even non-technocrats have may have some truth to share, for instance there is a lot we have to learn about our environment from biologists in order to create a sustainable system.
I think even this attitude is addressed in this list of books by including:
5.) The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (eBook – Audio Book) – “to learn how the power of rational thought is the primary source of freedom in the world.”
It looks pretty cool and I see how it could be super useful. I was dieting last year, got from 17 to 14 stone and then went back to around 16, now i'm going back on the diet haha. Anyway I wanted a free software bmi calculator as there wasn't one on f-droid so I made one, it's very simple, you need to enter details in pounds and inches for weight and height respectively lol, it's the only remotely useful thing I've made and I'm hoping if I mention it enough someone can make it accept more inputs in addition to pounds and inches but it will do for now haha. You can download apk if you have an android phone/tablet https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=bmi&fdid=com.zola.bmi
>An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith. First published in 1776, it is a reflection on economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution and argues that free market economies are more productive and beneficial to their societies. The book is a fundamental work in classical economics.
Ummm, yeah, I'll leave at that. Fuck deGrasse. He's preaching nothing more than capitalist bullshit within the guise of being thoughtful. DeGrasse is the status quo.
This is something I would recommend.
its not a democracy in the traditional sense.
the RBE model was inspired by buckminster fullers book <em>Operating Manuel for Spaceship Earth</em>
here is an explanation i found with google, outlining the differences:
> Technocracy uses “energy tickets” to control inventory. The Venus project does not. Technocracy still has citizenship, barriers between people on different continents, and still holds on to obsolete social values such as patriotism and nationalism. Barriers between continents and therefore, people, inevitably breeds ignorance and bigotry. The Venus project believes in no such boundaries and is open to all of the world’s people. In a Technocracy, members are appointed to make decisions and have headquarters. The Venus Project proposes to arrive at the decisions based on the carrying capacity of the earth. In a Technocracy, powers are mostly held in continental headquarters. Venus project is Global in scope working towards international cooperation. The Technocracy proposes defenses. The Venus project believes that it is not needed because of “the common heritage of the Earth’s resources.” The Technocracy movement has no specific blueprints for social design, Venus Project has blueprints for cities in the sea, building methods, transportation, energy systems…etc.
technocracy also suggest its an end-game state. whereas the resource based economy accepts the emergent nature of people+technology