Sign In Register Categories Recent Discussions Activity Unanswered Best Of... Categories All Categories Mining Pool Discussion General Project Discussion (non-technical) Education Protocol and Client discussion web3-js Whisper Swarm 2 RLP IoT & Hardware Smart Contracts and Dapps Serpent Solidity Projects Reference clients code and builds Eth & AlethZero- Cpp Implementation Geth - Go Implementation Mist Node.js Implementation Python Implementation Mix Other Implementations Meetups Other Events Jobs & Skills Press and Articles Audio/Video Ether Sale Other Languages Chinese German Italian French 2 Hebrew 6 Japanese Portugese Romanian Russian Spanish Turkish Watercooler I wonder what Jacque Fresco: (Futurist) would think of Ethereum.giannidalerta 76 January 2014 in General Project Discussion (non-technical) I have been intrigued with Jacque Fresco's futurism.

I was revisiting his philosophy and ideas.One line in particular:As artificial intelligence develops, machines will be assigned the tasks of complex decision-making in industrial, military and governmental affairs.This would not imply a take-over by machines.Instead, it would be a gradual transfer of decision-making processes to machine intelligence as the next phase of social evolution.Could Ethereum and DACs lead us to our next social evolution?Jacque is still alive and living in Florida in one of his futuristic designed houses.Would love to present him with Ethereum and DACs and see what he thinks... Here is an excerpt from their site... interesting to read.It truely is an alt univserse in my mind, but could lead to some inspriration by those on this forum.An Obsolete Monetary SystemThe money-based system evolved centuries ago.All of the world's economic systems - socialism, communism, fascism, and even the vaunted free enterprise system - perpetuate social stratification, elitism, nationalism, and racism, primarily based on economic disparity.

As long as a social system uses money or barter, people and nations will seek to maintain the economic competitive edge or, if they cannot do so by means of commerce they will by military intervention.We still utilize these same outmoded methods.Our current monetary system is not capable of providing a high standard of living for everyone, nor can it ensure the protection of the environment because the major motive is profit.Strategies such as downsizing and toxic dumping increase the profit margin.With the advent of automation, cybernation, artificial intelligence and out sourcing, there will be an ever-increasing replacement of people by machines.As a result, fewer people will be able to purchase goods and services even though our capability to produce an abundance will continue to exist.Our present, outmoded political and economic systems are unable to apply the real benefits of today's innovative technology to achieve the greatest good for all people, and to overcome the inequities imposed upon so many.

Our technology is racing forward yet our social designs have remained relatively static.In other words cultural change has not kept pace with technological change.bitcoin brokers redditWe now have the means to produce goods and services in abundance for everyone.Unfortunately, today science and technology have been diverted from achieving the greatest good for reasons of self-interest and monetary gain through planned obsolescence sometimes referred to as the conscious withdrawal of efficiency.bitcoin capital gains tax australiaFor example, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, whose function is presumed to be conducting research into ways of achieving higher crop yields per acre, actually pays farmers not to produce at full-capacity.mine litecoin online

The monetary system tends to hold back the application of these methods that we know would best serve the interests of people and the environment.In a monetary system purchasing power is not related to our capacity to produce goods and services.bitcoin pwcFor example, during a depression, there are computers and DVD's on store shelves and automobiles in car lots, but most people do not have the purchasing power to buy them.bitcoin cardable sitesThe earth is still the same place; it is just the rules of the game that are obsolete and create strife, deprivation and unnecessary human suffering.A monetary system developed years ago as a device to control human behavior in an environment with limited resources.bitcoin global conference melbourneToday money is used to regulate the economy not for the benefit of the general populace, but for those who control the financial wealth of nations.paul snow bitcoin

/extras/faq 0 Comments StephanTual 1,282 January 2014 Funny enough we had one person at the London meetup tonight debating the merits of a cyber-nation.bitcoin kurs phpIt immediately reminded me of the Venus Project.litecoin mining ukThat said, I think DACs (at least as they are defined today) actually are the diametrical opposite of the 'resource based economy' model offered by Fresco.The Venus Project is akin to computerized central planning attempting to make the most of our global resources.DACs on the other hand 'want' to be as efficient as possible, and do not take into account underlying available resources (because they are not aware of them).For example, StorJ relocates its storage layer only because it seeks to minimize its costs of operations, not taking into account that one datacenter could detrimental to the environment.

Hayek would have a field day 2 ddink7 49 January 2014 0 ryujiyuu 1 January 2014 1 StephanTual 1,282 January 2014 @/index.php?topic=434147.msg4838924#msg4838924 ... can you join us for the next one?0 Platonicgap 11 January 2014 Some careful rules will need to be laid out for DACs.Or we'll have a Matrix style eventuality and end up as batteries (our highest and best use to a machine).This debate is one for the books.Cerebral entertainment at its finest.Zeitgeist's Peter Joseph Vs.Stephan is right about most things, if not perhaps a little dogmatic about voluntary adoption of the non-aggression axiom and his disregard for imperfect information in markets, as well as free-market solutions to the tragedy of the commons (I don't think this is realistic).I appreciate Vitalik's insight into decentralized vs centralized problems; tragedy of the commons problems being a centralized problem.To solve this democratically we could support the cause/currency of our choice at no marginal cost to each individual other than small exchange fees and exchange rate risk, which would be inversely proportional to market cap/liquidity of the currency.My insight here is that people would tend toward the larger market cap currencies in order to mitigate above mentioned risks, a tendency that would consolidate power under a hand full of banners.