1 00:00:01,185 --> 00:00:04,708 The name of this presentation is Visualizing a Systems Approach. 2 00:00:04,708 --> 00:00:09,415 This is a single aspect regarding the direction advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement. 3 00:00:09,415 --> 00:00:12,700 In an event to me it's a key factor understanding human decision making 4 00:00:12,700 --> 00:00:16,785 and problem solving beyond this publical sphere. 5 00:00:16,785 --> 00:00:20,538 As we go through the materials we offer reference, 6 00:00:20,538 --> 00:00:24,769 you come across in many terms and phrases that sounds impressive and fun to say, 7 00:00:24,769 --> 00:00:28,215 some examples of this would be the resource-based economic model, 8 00:00:28,215 --> 00:00:32,269 technological unemployment, dynamic equilibrium, 9 00:00:32,269 --> 00:00:36,831 the scientific method for social concern, a systems approach resource management, 10 00:00:36,831 --> 00:00:39,262 along with many others. 11 00:00:40,915 --> 00:00:44,492 Spending a lot of time in the movement, speaking about the root causes that persist on problems, 12 00:00:44,492 --> 00:00:48,000 of the social operation of the planet, 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,492 specially regarding the monotonous negative outcome 14 00:00:50,492 --> 00:00:54,000 such as crime, poverty, war, polution, death, another forms of corruption. 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,600 Well, it is logical to understand the problems first, 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,431 we can sometimes miss the focus on aspects of the solutions we propose, 17 00:01:01,431 --> 00:01:04,354 even know that there is plenty of information available. 18 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 At the foundation of what the movement advocates, 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,000 it's a global movement which can be turned a resource based economy. 20 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,631 Maybe none to many of us, by the work of The Venus Project, in Venus, Florida, 21 00:01:16,631 --> 00:01:20,138 a resource-based economic model is a social structure, 22 00:01:20,138 --> 00:01:24,000 that is global on its operation, based entirely on the earths resources 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,385 as the starting point for the society to decision making. 24 00:01:27,985 --> 00:01:30,162 Where all goods and services are available, 25 00:01:30,162 --> 00:01:34,554 without the use of currency, credit, market, or any form of debt or servitude. 26 00:01:35,031 --> 00:01:39,523 Also, should be an industrial operations are arranged on what we call a systems approach, 27 00:01:39,523 --> 00:01:43,754 which logically treats the planet earth as a single system that is happens to be. 28 00:01:44,323 --> 00:01:47,262 We also advocate the application of technology 29 00:01:47,262 --> 00:01:51,892 to the automation of labour of free humanity from maintaining arbitrary occupation rules, 30 00:01:51,892 --> 00:01:56,462 which have no such relevance for social well beign, and, at the end of the day, 31 00:01:56,462 --> 00:02:00,185 we want to encourage new value and incentive system through this social design, 32 00:02:00,185 --> 00:02:04,062 which maintains a focus on attributes such as community, 33 00:02:04,062 --> 00:02:08,677 human well being, regular education, social awareness, and creativity. 34 00:02:09,708 --> 00:02:13,031 That is as far we go into the overall direction 35 00:02:13,031 --> 00:02:16,323 since it's far too much information we shared with you tonight. 36 00:02:16,323 --> 00:02:19,031 Instead, i wished to spend a few minutes visualizing a core attribute in this model 37 00:02:19,031 --> 00:02:23,708 to give you some work understanding one piece of the technical jargon. 38 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:28,815 The attribute of focus in this presentation will be a systems approach. 39 00:02:28,815 --> 00:02:32,231 Our relationship to the earth and the enviroments we are living 40 00:02:32,231 --> 00:02:36,000 is not a political issue, or a religious ideal. 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,538 It is a technical relationship, 42 00:02:38,538 --> 00:02:41,200 separated a living organism from its surroundings 43 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,954 and will die from a lack of oxygen, water and food. 44 00:02:43,954 --> 00:02:46,354 Organisms are open systems that can not survive 45 00:02:46,354 --> 00:02:50,600 without continuously extending matter energy with their environment. 46 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,000 Since we observe systems interacting with each other, 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,462 it's part of a whole, it is in a logical unified system with the biosphere 48 00:02:57,462 --> 00:03:00,000 and which we are on happy with 49 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:05,231 Systems then can be defined as an approach of problems solving. 50 00:03:05,231 --> 00:03:09,000 by viewing problems is part of the overall 51 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 rather than reacting problem isolated 52 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 unrelated phenomenal from a larger order. 53 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:21,015 When taking it separated, such patchworks may development of unintended consequences, 54 00:03:21,015 --> 00:03:25,938 such as trying to resolve problems from the monetary inflation with more inflation, 55 00:03:25,938 --> 00:03:28,523 or trying to fate the destruction of the rain forests 56 00:03:28,523 --> 00:03:31,108 or the increase of plastic waste on our ocean by more laws and legislation, 57 00:03:31,108 --> 00:03:35,200 rather than addressing the causes of the behaviour to begin with. 58 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,235 Systems thinking is not one thing, 59 00:03:38,235 --> 00:03:41,531 but such of habits or practices within the framework that is based on the principle 60 00:03:41,531 --> 00:03:46,846 that a component part of a system are best understood in context of relationships, 61 00:03:46,846 --> 00:03:51,000 rather than from isolation from one another. 62 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,292 So, this present has an attribute that is often mentioned, which is a systems approach. 63 00:03:55,292 --> 00:04:00,846 A systems approach to the resources management on the planet is comprised of realtime data and statistics. 64 00:04:00,846 --> 00:04:04,938 This approach can bind with the attribute of peak efficiency, 65 00:04:04,938 --> 00:04:07,977 so the peak of preservation and conservation 66 00:04:07,977 --> 00:04:11,477 becoming necessary components to what we call as sustainable society. 67 00:04:11,477 --> 00:04:16,046 The process of unfolding, which you may call decision making, 68 00:04:16,046 --> 00:04:18,846 is based on natural law in reason, 69 00:04:18,846 --> 00:04:23,169 not on political ideologies, or religious notions, or groups oppinion. 70 00:04:23,169 --> 00:04:29,046 When using a systems approach we arriving in decisions as supposed to make in them. 71 00:04:29,046 --> 00:04:36,292 Making a decision is a subjective act often based on incomplete information or affected by these cultural bias. 72 00:04:36,292 --> 00:04:39,692 Our goal is to remove the basis of ones oppinion as best we can, 73 00:04:39,692 --> 00:04:42,238 by using the most optimal knowledge we have, 74 00:04:42,238 --> 00:04:47,400 to align with natural processes, to the best of our habilities at a giving time. 75 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,462 This is an emergent process, because the body of knowledge of human understanding changes over time is 76 00:04:52,462 --> 00:04:56,231 news covering amaze, to a no final frontier. 77 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:01,508 So, human management of the environment equilibrium of this planet 78 00:05:01,508 --> 00:05:04,969 which is an initial variable how well society functions, 79 00:05:04,969 --> 00:05:09,877 comes first from understand what the carrying capacity of the earth actually is. 80 00:05:09,877 --> 00:05:13,673 It follows that the needs of the human population 81 00:05:13,673 --> 00:05:17,469 must be in balance with the resources of the earth or negative outcomes occur. 82 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 So, what were we start? 83 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,215 What is the first step to determine the carrying capacity of the earth? 84 00:05:24,215 --> 00:05:28,246 Well, as worse as systems approach comes in. 85 00:05:28,246 --> 00:05:32,077 A logical start would be with full survey with the earth resources, 86 00:05:32,077 --> 00:05:37,477 such we must know we have to work with in order to arrive in any decisions. 87 00:05:37,477 --> 00:05:40,785 There are many natural resources to be considered, such as forests, and oceans, and energy, 88 00:05:40,785 --> 00:05:43,785 along with arable land, and water, and minerals, 89 00:05:43,785 --> 00:05:48,000 but for the sake of simplicity, let's for first these components of these natural resources. 90 00:05:49,569 --> 00:05:53,585 If anyone is carrying think out has any sense, 91 00:05:53,585 --> 00:05:57,000 but how even be possible to create this kind of global system, 92 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,000 or perhaps you might be thinking that the technological know how, 93 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,677 for such a comprehensive survey be too futuristic. 94 00:06:03,677 --> 00:06:07,231 Well, this point i would like to make the use of few visual examples 95 00:06:07,231 --> 00:06:10,785 of current the real world technical systems that are working in this regard right now. 96 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:21,400 This is an accurate visualization of many current informer nasa earth observing satelites. 97 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:27,831 With names like Trum, Landsat7, Terra, Io1, Jason2, Grace, Isat and Aquarius, 98 00:06:27,831 --> 00:06:31,362 these one man proves quitely being down information 99 00:06:31,362 --> 00:06:34,892 that was transforming to understanding of how the earth works. 100 00:06:34,892 --> 00:06:39,000 And what we know about the human fingerprint on the climate? 101 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,600 Together, they represent an application of technology in realtime, 102 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:46,862 working this part of this globe surveying system, 103 00:06:46,862 --> 00:06:52,169 not something like Star Trek, not something a hundred years away, but orbiting the planet right now. 104 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,585 Let's look at the closer example. 105 00:06:56,585 --> 00:07:00,769 The satellite Aquarius is designed to take comprehensive salinity measurements of our oceans, 106 00:07:00,769 --> 00:07:03,862 and they are entirelly every week. 107 00:07:03,862 --> 00:07:06,054 The data obtained from these measurements 108 00:07:06,054 --> 00:07:09,015 how being such comprehesive questions about climate change. 109 00:07:09,015 --> 00:07:13,585 Why salinity? When the density of the ocean waters determined from its salinity and from misleading temperature. 110 00:07:13,585 --> 00:07:17,692 Density of the ocean water drives the patterns of the deep ocean currents, 111 00:07:17,692 --> 00:07:21,000 and ocean currents drives global change. 112 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,396 In recent decades, scientists have seen there are ocean salinity have shifted 113 00:07:24,396 --> 00:07:28,500 in ways which only climate changes seems to be able to explain. 114 00:07:29,415 --> 00:07:31,938 For four hundred miles above the surface of the earth, 115 00:07:31,938 --> 00:07:34,462 Aquarius can attempt to detect differences on ocean salinity 116 00:07:34,462 --> 00:07:38,354 to even a pinch of salt in a gallon of water. 117 00:07:38,354 --> 00:07:42,000 With this visualization we were seeing an example of current technology 118 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,185 being applied by methods of sciences 119 00:07:44,185 --> 00:07:48,000 for environmental and, ultimatelly, social concern. 120 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,000 The collection of all of this data can be used for understanding our environment, 121 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,585 or even predicting possible outcomes. 122 00:07:57,585 --> 00:08:02,154 In this example, what you're seeing is not photographed from space. 123 00:08:02,154 --> 00:08:06,000 Every pixel from is calculated by the geos5 super computer. 124 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,369 This supercomputer can accuratelly model and simulate 125 00:08:09,369 --> 00:08:12,738 the earth's atmosphere conditions for short periods of time. 126 00:08:12,738 --> 00:08:18,000 In this example, this model is giving data leading up into February second 2010, 127 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,658 and then, it preceeded to predict the atmosphere's response 128 00:08:20,658 --> 00:08:23,315 for the next twenty days without any further input. 129 00:08:23,315 --> 00:08:28,385 This model simulated the real world weather events that actually took place, 130 00:08:28,385 --> 00:08:32,569 including snow strorms, couple of cyclones, and other climatic conditions. 131 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,923 Continuing these examples, the Terra and Acqua satellites, gather data of the earth surface every two days. 132 00:08:42,923 --> 00:08:48,015 This animation shows were the world's food is grown versus where the world's food is consumed. 133 00:08:48,015 --> 00:08:51,623 The movie starts with the global problems that faces to the countries 134 00:08:51,623 --> 00:08:54,908 are producing either 80% of the world's weed, grain and cereal. 135 00:08:54,908 --> 00:08:58,431 And then overlays to the world's population density 136 00:08:58,431 --> 00:09:03,031 and then double and triple their populations by the year 2050. 137 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:11,508 There also exists a mineral resource datasystem, which is a statistical survey done by the USGeos. 138 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,092 This is United States geological survey. 139 00:09:16,092 --> 00:09:19,454 The map, this map is a collection of reports 140 00:09:19,454 --> 00:09:22,815 subscribing the mineral resources through the United States. 141 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,454 The survey actually expands out for the entire globe, 142 00:09:26,454 --> 00:09:28,908 but this map just chooses an example purpose for this presentation. 143 00:09:28,923 --> 00:09:34,062 This is an example of the information that would be part of the so called geodatabase, if you will. 144 00:09:34,062 --> 00:09:38,038 Integrating the dataset into a global knowledge base 145 00:09:38,038 --> 00:09:42,015 of our resource management system as a function of a systems approach we have being exploring. 146 00:09:42,015 --> 00:09:46,492 Another example of visualizing systems approach, 147 00:09:46,492 --> 00:09:51,031 in action, is viewing compiled data from our global resource system. 148 00:09:51,031 --> 00:09:56,354 Here, a member of the google earth community, assembled this image from the CIA world factbook, 149 00:09:56,354 --> 00:10:00,000 showing the world oil consumption for the year 2007. 150 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,100 This chart displays a exploring 3d graphs in the shape of each country, 151 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:07,892 showing the relationship of the oil consumption between countries. 152 00:10:07,892 --> 00:10:13,338 Here, the United States is showing a tremendous consumption of about 21 million of barrels per day, 153 00:10:13,338 --> 00:10:18,938 which is almost 25% of the earth total of the 80 million of oil barrels consumed worldwide, 154 00:10:18,938 --> 00:10:22,215 that's daily, 80 million barrels, a day. 155 00:10:23,908 --> 00:10:28,400 So, how would you possible interact with such a system that meants data? 156 00:10:29,738 --> 00:10:33,400 We are following the evolution of the tax space search engines that we are all familiar with today, 157 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:38,369 we would interact with this vast knowledge database via computerized AI systems. 158 00:10:39,938 --> 00:10:45,092 In an example of a computational knowledge of engineerying in generality exists, is Wolfram Alpha. 159 00:10:45,092 --> 00:10:48,969 This engine generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base 160 00:10:48,969 --> 00:10:52,846 in set on searching the internet and returning you links. 161 00:10:52,846 --> 00:10:56,108 In a resource based system that we advocate, 162 00:10:56,108 --> 00:11:00,515 such a concept can be easily scaled out to include the immensum database 163 00:11:00,515 --> 00:11:04,923 that is currently collected in both public and private sectors in the world today. 164 00:11:06,662 --> 00:11:09,969 Along with many free information in data products out there via the internet, 165 00:11:09,969 --> 00:11:15,831 one could well ponder that question that if a lower cooperation from our technology friends 166 00:11:15,831 --> 00:11:21,600 could be actually have a path to lead forward and move in such direction? Well, who knows? 167 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,862 And maybe the world is simply waiting for people enough who want to do so. 168 00:11:26,062 --> 00:11:29,069 The point is, threre are many real world working examples 169 00:11:29,069 --> 00:11:35,062 to show such collaborative social system is technically reality and not in someday phenomenal. 170 00:11:36,969 --> 00:11:40,123 And going to conclude here, with this artistic representation of the system 171 00:11:40,123 --> 00:11:43,277 is visualized by industrial designing social engineering, 172 00:11:43,277 --> 00:11:45,338 Jacque Fresco, from The Venus Project, 173 00:11:45,338 --> 00:11:48,231 who spent more than seventy years of his life researching such a direction. 174 00:11:49,262 --> 00:11:51,238 I hope this presentation is helping you to understand 175 00:11:51,238 --> 00:11:53,908 how these system approaches to resources management could work, 176 00:11:53,908 --> 00:11:57,692 how we can approach problem solving beyond the spheres of politics, 177 00:11:57,692 --> 00:12:02,223 how we can arrive in decisions via science rather than human oppinion or majority vote. 178 00:12:02,223 --> 00:12:08,369 And how current technology can be applied to make such a resource based system a reality.