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
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 interaction
Same people
Communities 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

A social contract
Minimum amount of work
Gain benefits

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

People, places and communities

by Dr. Andrew Wallace PhD

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