Well the automation of all Unskilled or Low skilled jobs would be great to "free people" from their private dictated slavery jobs. I'd love to see the service industry completely automated. I believe it's the largest industry of employment and that's very sad as it mostly consists of mundane and repetitive jobs where the employees are overworked and underpaid. Fully Automated Restaurant I'm always happy to see articles such as this.
Also as mentioned before Urbanised farming systems to localise and automate food production is very important as is Renewable energy technologies becoming more effcient and common place. Basicly finally becoming sustainable in areas of everyday life.
>Jacque believed the Earth had more than enough resources where this wouldn’t even be a problem. If any material is lacking, for example, the computer would ask material scientists and chemists around the world to investigate new alternate materials.
If we had mountains of resources for everyone, we wouldn't need such ideas, since we could take them off the ground, you know?
And in that case, it's just giving up resources willy-nilly to the first one who asks, and then asking for scientific magic when it runs out.
It's incredibly inefficient.
>He also didn’t just want to run on his own theory here so that’s why we need to conduct a survey of all of the world’s resources so we can know exactly what we have, where we have it, and base decisions around that.
Then you can't claim that an RBE would give us way this super high standard of living, if you aren't sure the planet even has the needed resources for a decent one.
Also, given Fresco designed all of his cities and machines, he should have been able to tell us a rough estimate of how much steel/glass/land/food/etc.
>I believe, for example, if platinum is found to be lacking, the computer will be able to take in all ideas anybody would like to submit around the world on how to solve the problem, such as asteroid mining if need be.
Then where is the decision-making involved?
Seriously, for all his talk of super-computers and advanced cybernetics, what Fresco proposed could be done through a second-hand server and a bog-standard inventory management system(take Odoo for an open-source one, so you dont even have to pay money), but instead of a notification to refill stock, you send a call to change some material specs.
Jacque Fresco time line
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/661112/Jacque-Fresco-Timeline-2016/