People, places and communities

Imagine People, Places and Communities : A Vision of the Future

Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD BEng(hons) EurIng

Overview People Background Communities Places Living in the future

People

People One persons utopia is another’s dystopia Let people be people

Background EOS – a new dawn

European Organisation for Sustainability Propose an alternative socioeconomic

system Highest standard of living for the longest

time possible Science applied to society

Technate

Background Why bother?

Unsustainable Destruction of the planet

Alternative way of doing things Can we?

Background People side Technical side

Expert manage Goal orientated Openness (peer review) Framework Localised – no nations Money-less – no private property Sustainable Technate Holonic

Communities No nations Communities

Culture Language

Up to 200 in each A sustainable building block Interdependency – Reciprocal altruism

Communities Eco-units

Own energy production Own food production Own waste management Extra production capacity

Communities Networking Urbanate – replacement for cities

10 000 people (about 50 communities) Vertical Inclusive (home, workplaces, recreation) Own legal council – Governance

Network of Urbanate / confederations No geographical boundaries

Communities

Communities

Communities Governance

Direct democracy (recommendation) Legislative council

Representatives People vote on all laws passed People can over turn passed laws (given a

majority)

Communities

People – technical side interactionSame peopleCommunities decide what they will accept in their communities

The communities provide the specification

Overlap - negotiation

Communities Language

Multiple languages Common language

English? Loglan?

Communities Each having its own characteristic

Religions / non-religious Trans-human / primitive Ethnicity Language

Communities Limits

People Non-technical issues

Basic set of human rights Right to life Right to move else where Right to an education Right to health

Tolerance

Communities Trantor

Domes Communities

Dahl Ery Imperial Mandanov Millimaru Mycogen Nevrask North Damiano Streeling Wye Ziggoreth

Places (Proto-) Technate

Places Building communities

Sweden Slovenia Poland

Living in the future A social contract

Minimum amount of work Gain benefits

Living in the future Power becomes local to you Your opinion matters more More freedom to live your life the way you

want A certain standard of living

Food Housing Clothes Education

More time to be human