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Jason Lord | "Visualizing a Systems Approach" | The Zeitgeist Movement | [LA TownHall - Part 2]

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    The name of this presentation is Visualizing a Systems Approach.
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    This is a single aspect regarding the direction advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement.
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    In an event to me it's a key factor understanding human decision making
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    and problem solving beyond this publical sphere.
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    As we go through the materials we offer reference,
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    you come across in many terms and phrases that sounds impressive and fun to say,
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    some examples of this would be the resource-based economic model,
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    technological unemployment, dynamic equilibrium,
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    the scientific method for social concern, a systems approach resource management,
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    along with many others.
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    Spending a lot of time in the movement, speaking about the root causes that persist on problems,
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    of the social operation of the planet,
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    specially regarding the monotonous negative outcome
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    such as crime, poverty, war, polution, death, another forms of corruption.
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    Well, it is logical to understand the problems first,
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    we can sometimes miss the focus on aspects of the solutions we propose,
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    even know that there is plenty of information available.
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    At the foundation of what the movement advocates,
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    it's a global movement which can be turned a resource based economy.
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    Maybe none to many of us, by the work of The Venus Project, in Venus, Florida,
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    a resource-based economic model is a social structure,
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    that is global on its operation, based entirely on the earths resources
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    as the starting point for the society to decision making.
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    Where all goods and services are available,
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    without the use of currency, credit, market, or any form of debt or servitude.
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    Also, should be an industrial operations are arranged on what we call a systems approach,
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    which logically treats the planet earth as a single system that is happens to be.
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    We also advocate the application of technology
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    to the automation of labour of free humanity from maintaining arbitrary occupation rules,
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    which have no such relevance for social well beign, and, at the end of the day,
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    we want to encourage new value and incentive system through this social design,
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    which maintains a focus on attributes such as community,
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    human well being, regular education, social awareness, and creativity.
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    That is as far we go into the overall direction
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    since it's far too much information we shared with you tonight.
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    Instead, i wished to spend a few minutes visualizing a core attribute in this model
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    to give you some work understanding one piece of the technical jargon.
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    The attribute of focus in this presentation will be a systems approach.
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    Our relationship to the earth and the enviroments we are living
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    is not a political issue, or a religious ideal.
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    It is a technical relationship,
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    separated a living organism from its surroundings
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    and will die from a lack of oxygen, water and food.
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    Organisms are open systems that can not survive
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    without continuously extending matter energy with their environment.
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    Since we observe systems interacting with each other,
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    it's part of a whole, it is in a logical unified system with the biosphere
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    and which we are on happy with
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    Systems then can be defined as an approach of problems solving.
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    by viewing problems is part of the overall
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    rather than reacting problem isolated
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    unrelated phenomenal from a larger order.
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    When taking it separated, such patchworks may development of unintended consequences,
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    such as trying to resolve problems from the monetary inflation with more inflation,
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    or trying to fate the destruction of the rain forests
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    or the increase of plastic waste on our ocean by more laws and legislation,
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    rather than addressing the causes of the behaviour to begin with.
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    Systems thinking is not one thing,
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    but such of habits or practices within the framework that is based on the principle
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    that a component part of a system are best understood in context of relationships,
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    rather than from isolation from one another.
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    So, this present has an attribute that is often mentioned, which is a systems approach.
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    A systems approach to the resources management on the planet is comprised of realtime data and statistics.
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    This approach can bind with the attribute of peak efficiency,
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    so the peak of preservation and conservation
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    becoming necessary components to what we call as sustainable society.
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    The process of unfolding, which you may call decision making,
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    is based on natural law in reason,
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    not on political ideologies, or religious notions, or groups oppinion.
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    When using a systems approach we arriving in decisions as supposed to make in them.
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    Making a decision is a subjective act often based on incomplete information or affected by these cultural bias.
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    Our goal is to remove the basis of ones oppinion as best we can,
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    by using the most optimal knowledge we have,
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    to align with natural processes, to the best of our habilities at a giving time.
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    This is an emergent process, because the body of knowledge of human understanding changes over time is
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    news covering amaze, to a no final frontier.
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    So, human management of the environment equilibrium of this planet
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    which is an initial variable how well society functions,
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    comes first from understand what the carrying capacity of the earth actually is.
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    It follows that the needs of the human population
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    must be in balance with the resources of the earth or negative outcomes occur.
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    So, what were we start?
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    What is the first step to determine the carrying capacity of the earth?
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    Well, as worse as systems approach comes in.
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    A logical start would be with full survey with the earth resources,
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    such we must know we have to work with in order to arrive in any decisions.
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    There are many natural resources to be considered, such as forests, and oceans, and energy,
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    along with arable land, and water, and minerals,
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    but for the sake of simplicity, let's for first these components of these natural resources.
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    If anyone is carrying think out has any sense,
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    but how even be possible to create this kind of global system,
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    or perhaps you might be thinking that the technological know how,
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    for such a comprehensive survey be too futuristic.
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    Well, this point i would like to make the use of few visual examples
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    of current the real world technical systems that are working in this regard right now.
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    This is an accurate visualization of many current informer nasa earth observing satelites.
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    With names like Trum, Landsat7, Terra, Io1, Jason2, Grace, Isat and Aquarius,
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    these one man proves quitely being down information
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    that was transforming to understanding of how the earth works.
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    And what we know about the human fingerprint on the climate?
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    Together, they represent an application of technology in realtime,
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    working this part of this globe surveying system,
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    not something like Star Trek, not something a hundred years away, but orbiting the planet right now.
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    Let's look at the closer example.
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    The satellite Aquarius is designed to take comprehensive salinity measurements of our oceans,
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    and they are entirelly every week.
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    The data obtained from these measurements
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    how being such comprehesive questions about climate change.
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    Why salinity? When the density of the ocean waters determined from its salinity and from misleading temperature.
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    Density of the ocean water drives the patterns of the deep ocean currents,
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    and ocean currents drives global change.
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    In recent decades, scientists have seen there are ocean salinity have shifted
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    in ways which only climate changes seems to be able to explain.
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    For four hundred miles above the surface of the earth,
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    Aquarius can attempt to detect differences on ocean salinity
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    to even a pinch of salt in a gallon of water.
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    With this visualization we were seeing an example of current technology
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    being applied by methods of sciences
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    for environmental and, ultimatelly, social concern.
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    The collection of all of this data can be used for understanding our environment,
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    or even predicting possible outcomes.
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    In this example, what you're seeing is not photographed from space.
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    Every pixel from is calculated by the geos5 super computer.
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    This supercomputer can accuratelly model and simulate
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    the earth's atmosphere conditions for short periods of time.
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    In this example, this model is giving data leading up into February second 2010,
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    and then, it preceeded to predict the atmosphere's response
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    for the next twenty days without any further input.
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    This model simulated the real world weather events that actually took place,
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    including snow strorms, couple of cyclones, and other climatic conditions.
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    Continuing these examples, the Terra and Acqua satellites, gather data of the earth surface every two days.
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    This animation shows were the world's food is grown versus where the world's food is consumed.
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    The movie starts with the global problems that faces to the countries
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    are producing either 80% of the world's weed, grain and cereal.
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    And then overlays to the world's population density
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    and then double and triple their populations by the year 2050.
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    There also exists a mineral resource datasystem, which is a statistical survey done by the USGeos.
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    This is United States geological survey.
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    The map, this map is a collection of reports
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    subscribing the mineral resources through the United States.
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    The survey actually expands out for the entire globe,
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    but this map just chooses an example purpose for this presentation.
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    This is an example of the information that would be part of the so called geodatabase, if you will.
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    Integrating the dataset into a global knowledge base
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    of our resource management system as a function of a systems approach we have being exploring.
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    Another example of visualizing systems approach,
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    in action, is viewing compiled data from our global resource system.
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    Here, a member of the google earth community, assembled this image from the CIA world factbook,
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    showing the world oil consumption for the year 2007.
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    This chart displays a exploring 3d graphs in the shape of each country,
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    showing the relationship of the oil consumption between countries.
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    Here, the United States is showing a tremendous consumption of about 21 million of barrels per day,
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    which is almost 25% of the earth total of the 80 million of oil barrels consumed worldwide,
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    that's daily, 80 million barrels, a day.
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    So, how would you possible interact with such a system that meants data?
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    We are following the evolution of the tax space search engines that we are all familiar with today,
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    we would interact with this vast knowledge database via computerized AI systems.
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    In an example of a computational knowledge of engineerying in generality exists, is Wolfram Alpha.
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    This engine generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base
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    in set on searching the internet and returning you links.
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    In a resource based system that we advocate,
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    such a concept can be easily scaled out to include the immensum database
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    that is currently collected in both public and private sectors in the world today.
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    Along with many free information in data products out there via the internet,
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    one could well ponder that question that if a lower cooperation from our technology friends
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    could be actually have a path to lead forward and move in such direction? Well, who knows?
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    And maybe the world is simply waiting for people enough who want to do so.
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    The point is, threre are many real world working examples
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    to show such collaborative social system is technically reality and not in someday phenomenal.
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    And going to conclude here, with this artistic representation of the system
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    is visualized by industrial designing social engineering,
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    Jacque Fresco, from The Venus Project,
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    who spent more than seventy years of his life researching such a direction.
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    I hope this presentation is helping you to understand
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    how these system approaches to resources management could work,
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    how we can approach problem solving beyond the spheres of politics,
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    how we can arrive in decisions via science rather than human oppinion or majority vote.
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    And how current technology can be applied to make such a resource based system a reality.
Title:
Jason Lord | "Visualizing a Systems Approach" | The Zeitgeist Movement | [LA TownHall - Part 2]
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"Visualizing a Systems Approach" by Jason Lord |

The Zeitgeist Movement | Los Angeles CA "TownHall" | Oct 26 2011

[Part 2 of TownHall Event]

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