I often find myself listening to discussions about creating a future Utopia.
My lady rants about it so much it is cliche and I have to stop her…“Yes dear, robots, free energy, no money…”
The hippie on the receiving end usually interjects that we still need people to do some work, that some people WANT TO dig in the dirt – and that’s the point, in an Abundance Paradigm everyone does what they want and robots/machines do the rest. I do believe that’s the point of technology.
So it’s easy to imagine this world but it is difficult to plan and implement the transitory steps to get there.
My one friend said that WE first must REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE.
I agree.
Next you need free energy (or at the least a sane energy policy). The implications are too great to go into here…
But what about Money? Surely we will need some kind of currency even if greed is eliminated and people can get whatever they want. What if the Jones’ were minimalists?
What if capitalism isn’t the answer? What is?
The love of money will have to be replaced with LOVE.
I LOVE Inventing. I LOVE my Planet. So why wouldn’t I give away my IP? If you LOVED my invention wouldn’t you want to compensate me?
I’ll buy the overpriced CD because that band has made my life so much better, that kind of mentality.
So where does EN fit in?
Open Innovation is a loosening of the greedyness or at least the elitism of the driving force of capitalism. None of us is here because we are blind slaves, we are “Noble Contributors” doing what we love because we NOW CAN.
That is one of the defining states of a UTOPIA, “WE SPEND TIME ONLY WITH PEOPLE WE WANT TO BE AROUND/LIKE/LOVE”
These niche clusters are emerging from new options, filling in gaps and resolving issues of FUTURE SHOCK in realtime.
Thanks Internet!
The Abundance Paradigm is where the “Sheeple” tell the Shepard, “Hey, we are going over here, screw your fence, you can follow us if you want.” This is also known as Bottom-Up – what democracy is supposed to be.
So as stated before, Crowd-Sourcing via the Internet is pretty much the model of future government, the ideal E-Government/Direct Democracy where YOU represent YOU.
How can special interests lobby 260 million Americans?
They Fing can’t!
EN is showing us that:
1 – YES you can do what you love AND contribute to the world with minimal effort.
2 – Open Sourcing can tap emergence or reduction, here the numbers are reduced to winning ideas, the same can be applied to legislature.
Check it out if you haven’t:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
