Wed, Oct 29, 2008 You'd need an absolutely diabolical marketing scheme to sell it in the current environment. (Or a massively powerful dictatorship of course).
I'm sure anyone with the guts to try could find some artistic solution to sell it in the current environment without it being too hard. Or, as wildcat put it in that other thread:
I am not certain that there is a consensus as to the idea that painting a clear picture overcomes the system, what I can state for certain is that history has proven time and again that there is no force in the collective called humanity that is stronger than "an idea whose time has arrived".
The Venus Project pisses me off a little, it seems like just another almost purely commercial venture. It's not practicing what it preaches and that kind of bums out its integrity, at least for me. If they really cared, wouldn't they put those videos they sell online to watch for free on the site? Information in a resource-based economy (Or any economy, really) should be the most freely available thing there is, of course considering the protection of any individual's private information and interests to a proper degree.
I think the next economy should be based on a lot of things, a holistic economy. Energy and resources both fit in to it but I'm sure there's more.
I'm also sure that there would be a lot of disagreement on the whole matter as to how exactly to go about it, and I can imagine things taking off and then going into a bunch of different competing schisms which conflict the goal of getting things done. Countermeasures to that kind of pattern seen in the past with many things should also be key.
You'd need an absolutely diabolical marketing scheme to sell it in the current environment. (Or a massively powerful dictatorship of course).
I'm sure anyone with the guts to try could find some artistic solution to sell it in the current environment without it being too hard. Or, as wildcat put it in that other thread:
I am not certain that there is a consensus as to the idea that painting a clear picture overcomes the system, what I can state for certain is that history has proven time and again that there is no force in the collective called humanity that is stronger than "an idea whose time has arrived".
The Venus Project pisses me off a little, it seems like just another almost purely commercial venture. It's not practicing what it preaches and that kind of bums out its integrity, at least for me. If they really cared, wouldn't they put those videos they sell online to watch for free on the site? Information in a resource-based economy (Or any economy, really) should be the most freely available thing there is, of course considering the protection of any individual's private information and interests to a proper degree.
I think the next economy should be based on a lot of things, a holistic economy. Energy and resources both fit in to it but I'm sure there's more.
I'm also sure that there would be a lot of disagreement on the whole matter as to how exactly to go about it, and I can imagine things taking off and then going into a bunch of different competing schisms which conflict the goal of getting things done. Countermeasures to that kind of pattern seen in the past with many things should also be key.