WEBVTT 00:00:01.185 --> 00:00:04.708 The name of this presentation is Visualizing a Systems Approach. 00:00:04.708 --> 00:00:09.415 This is a single aspect regarding the direction advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement. 00:00:09.415 --> 00:00:12.700 In an event to me it's a key factor understanding human decision making 00:00:12.700 --> 00:00:16.785 and problem solving beyond this publical sphere. 00:00:16.785 --> 00:00:20.538 As we go through the materials we offer reference, 00:00:20.538 --> 00:00:24.769 you come across in many terms and phrases that sounds impressive and fun to say, 00:00:24.769 --> 00:00:28.215 some examples of this would be the resource-based economic model, 00:00:28.215 --> 00:00:32.269 technological unemployment, dynamic equilibrium, 00:00:32.269 --> 00:00:36.831 the scientific method for social concern, a systems approach resource management, 00:00:36.831 --> 00:00:39.262 along with many others. 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, 00:00:44.492 --> 00:00:48.000 of the social operation of the planet, 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.492 specially regarding the monotonous negative outcome 00:00:50.492 --> 00:00:54.000 such as crime, poverty, war, polution, death, another forms of corruption. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.600 Well, it is logical to understand the problems first, 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:01.431 we can sometimes miss the focus on aspects of the solutions we propose, 00:01:01.431 --> 00:01:04.354 even know that there is plenty of information available. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.000 At the foundation of what the movement advocates, 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:12.000 it's a global movement which can be turned a resource based economy. 00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:16.631 Maybe none to many of us, by the work of The Venus Project, in Venus, Florida, 00:01:16.631 --> 00:01:20.138 a resource-based economic model is a social structure, 00:01:20.138 --> 00:01:24.000 that is global on its operation, based entirely on the earths resources 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.385 as the starting point for the society to decision making. 00:01:27.985 --> 00:01:30.162 Where all goods and services are available, 00:01:30.162 --> 00:01:34.554 without the use of currency, credit, market, or any form of debt or servitude. 00:01:35.031 --> 00:01:39.523 Also, should be an industrial operations are arranged on what we call a systems approach, 00:01:39.523 --> 00:01:43.754 which logically treats the planet earth as a single system that is happens to be. 00:01:44.323 --> 00:01:47.262 We also advocate the application of technology 00:01:47.262 --> 00:01:51.892 to the automation of labour of free humanity from maintaining arbitrary occupation rules, 00:01:51.892 --> 00:01:56.462 which have no such relevance for social well beign, and, at the end of the day, 00:01:56.462 --> 00:02:00.185 we want to encourage new value and incentive system through this social design, 00:02:00.185 --> 00:02:04.062 which maintains a focus on attributes such as community, 00:02:04.062 --> 00:02:08.677 human well being, regular education, social awareness, and creativity. 00:02:09.708 --> 00:02:13.031 That is as far we go into the overall direction 00:02:13.031 --> 00:02:16.323 since it's far too much information we shared with you tonight. 00:02:16.323 --> 00:02:19.031 Instead, i wished to spend a few minutes visualizing a core attribute in this model 00:02:19.031 --> 00:02:23.708 to give you some work understanding one piece of the technical jargon. 00:02:23.708 --> 00:02:28.815 The attribute of focus in this presentation will be a systems approach. 00:02:28.815 --> 00:02:32.231 Our relationship to the earth and the enviroments we are living 00:02:32.231 --> 00:02:36.000 is not a political issue, or a religious ideal. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.538 It is a technical relationship, 00:02:38.538 --> 00:02:41.200 separated a living organism from its surroundings 00:02:41.200 --> 00:02:43.954 and will die from a lack of oxygen, water and food. 00:02:43.954 --> 00:02:46.354 Organisms are open systems that can not survive 00:02:46.354 --> 00:02:50.600 without continuously extending matter energy with their environment. 00:02:50.600 --> 00:02:54.000 Since we observe systems interacting with each other, 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.462 it's part of a whole, it is in a logical unified system with the biosphere 00:02:57.462 --> 00:03:00.000 and which we are on happy with 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.231 Systems then can be defined as an approach of problems solving. 00:03:05.231 --> 00:03:09.000 by viewing problems is part of the overall 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:12.000 rather than reacting problem isolated 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.000 unrelated phenomenal from a larger order. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:21.015 When taking it separated, such patchworks may development of unintended consequences, 00:03:21.015 --> 00:03:25.938 such as trying to resolve problems from the monetary inflation with more inflation, 00:03:25.938 --> 00:03:28.523 or trying to fate the destruction of the rain forests 00:03:28.523 --> 00:03:31.108 or the increase of plastic waste on our ocean by more laws and legislation, 00:03:31.108 --> 00:03:35.200 rather than addressing the causes of the behaviour to begin with. 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:38.235 Systems thinking is not one thing, 00:03:38.235 --> 00:03:41.531 but such of habits or practices within the framework that is based on the principle 00:03:41.531 --> 00:03:46.846 that a component part of a system are best understood in context of relationships, 00:03:46.846 --> 00:03:51.000 rather than from isolation from one another. 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:55.292 So, this present has an attribute that is often mentioned, which is a systems approach. 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. 00:04:00.846 --> 00:04:04.938 This approach can bind with the attribute of peak efficiency, 00:04:04.938 --> 00:04:07.977 so the peak of preservation and conservation 00:04:07.977 --> 00:04:11.477 becoming necessary components to what we call as sustainable society. 00:04:11.477 --> 00:04:16.046 The process of unfolding, which you may call decision making, 00:04:16.046 --> 00:04:18.846 is based on natural law in reason, 00:04:18.846 --> 00:04:23.169 not on political ideologies, or religious notions, or groups oppinion. 00:04:23.169 --> 00:04:29.046 When using a systems approach we arriving in decisions as supposed to make in them. 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. 00:04:36.292 --> 00:04:39.692 Our goal is to remove the basis of ones oppinion as best we can, 00:04:39.692 --> 00:04:42.238 by using the most optimal knowledge we have, 00:04:42.238 --> 00:04:47.400 to align with natural processes, to the best of our habilities at a giving time. 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 00:04:52.462 --> 00:04:56.231 news covering amaze, to a no final frontier. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:01.508 So, human management of the environment equilibrium of this planet 00:05:01.508 --> 00:05:04.969 which is an initial variable how well society functions, 00:05:04.969 --> 00:05:09.877 comes first from understand what the carrying capacity of the earth actually is. 00:05:09.877 --> 00:05:13.673 It follows that the needs of the human population 00:05:13.673 --> 00:05:17.469 must be in balance with the resources of the earth or negative outcomes occur. 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:21.000 So, what were we start? 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:24.215 What is the first step to determine the carrying capacity of the earth? 00:05:24.215 --> 00:05:28.246 Well, as worse as systems approach comes in. 00:05:28.246 --> 00:05:32.077 A logical start would be with full survey with the earth resources, 00:05:32.077 --> 00:05:37.477 such we must know we have to work with in order to arrive in any decisions. 00:05:37.477 --> 00:05:40.785 There are many natural resources to be considered, such as forests, and oceans, and energy, 00:05:40.785 --> 00:05:43.785 along with arable land, and water, and minerals, 00:05:43.785 --> 00:05:48.000 but for the sake of simplicity, let's for first these components of these natural resources. 00:05:49.569 --> 00:05:53.585 If anyone is carrying think out has any sense, 00:05:53.585 --> 00:05:57.000 but how even be possible to create this kind of global system, 00:05:57.000 --> 00:06:00.000 or perhaps you might be thinking that the technological know how, 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.677 for such a comprehensive survey be too futuristic. 00:06:03.677 --> 00:06:07.231 Well, this point i would like to make the use of few visual examples 00:06:07.231 --> 00:06:10.785 of current the real world technical systems that are working in this regard right now. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:21.400 This is an accurate visualization of many current informer nasa earth observing satelites. 00:06:21.400 --> 00:06:27.831 With names like Trum, Landsat7, Terra, Io1, Jason2, Grace, Isat and Aquarius, 00:06:27.831 --> 00:06:31.362 these one man proves quitely being down information 00:06:31.362 --> 00:06:34.892 that was transforming to understanding of how the earth works. 00:06:34.892 --> 00:06:39.000 And what we know about the human fingerprint on the climate? 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:43.600 Together, they represent an application of technology in realtime, 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.862 working this part of this globe surveying system, 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. 00:06:54.200 --> 00:06:56.585 Let's look at the closer example. 00:06:56.585 --> 00:07:00.769 The satellite Aquarius is designed to take comprehensive salinity measurements of our oceans, 00:07:00.769 --> 00:07:03.862 and they are entirelly every week. 00:07:03.862 --> 00:07:06.054 The data obtained from these measurements 00:07:06.054 --> 00:07:09.015 how being such comprehesive questions about climate change. 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. 00:07:13.585 --> 00:07:17.692 Density of the ocean water drives the patterns of the deep ocean currents, 00:07:17.692 --> 00:07:21.000 and ocean currents drives global change. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:24.396 In recent decades, scientists have seen there are ocean salinity have shifted 00:07:24.396 --> 00:07:28.500 in ways which only climate changes seems to be able to explain. 00:07:29.415 --> 00:07:31.938 For four hundred miles above the surface of the earth, 00:07:31.938 --> 00:07:34.462 Aquarius can attempt to detect differences on ocean salinity 00:07:34.462 --> 00:07:38.354 to even a pinch of salt in a gallon of water. 00:07:38.354 --> 00:07:42.000 With this visualization we were seeing an example of current technology 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.185 being applied by methods of sciences 00:07:44.185 --> 00:07:48.000 for environmental and, ultimatelly, social concern. 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:54.000 The collection of all of this data can be used for understanding our environment, 00:07:54.000 --> 00:07:57.585 or even predicting possible outcomes. 00:07:57.585 --> 00:08:02.154 In this example, what you're seeing is not photographed from space. 00:08:02.154 --> 00:08:06.000 Every pixel from is calculated by the geos5 super computer. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:09.369 This supercomputer can accuratelly model and simulate 00:08:09.369 --> 00:08:12.738 the earth's atmosphere conditions for short periods of time. 00:08:12.738 --> 00:08:18.000 In this example, this model is giving data leading up into February second 2010, 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.658 and then, it preceeded to predict the atmosphere's response 00:08:20.658 --> 00:08:23.315 for the next twenty days without any further input. 00:08:23.315 --> 00:08:28.385 This model simulated the real world weather events that actually took place, 00:08:28.385 --> 00:08:32.569 including snow strorms, couple of cyclones, and other climatic conditions. 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. 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. 00:08:48.015 --> 00:08:51.623 The movie starts with the global problems that faces to the countries 00:08:51.623 --> 00:08:54.908 are producing either 80% of the world's weed, grain and cereal. 00:08:54.908 --> 00:08:58.431 And then overlays to the world's population density 00:08:58.431 --> 00:09:03.031 and then double and triple their populations by the year 2050. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:11.508 There also exists a mineral resource datasystem, which is a statistical survey done by the USGeos. 00:09:13.400 --> 00:09:16.092 This is United States geological survey. 00:09:16.092 --> 00:09:19.454 The map, this map is a collection of reports 00:09:19.454 --> 00:09:22.815 subscribing the mineral resources through the United States. 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.454 The survey actually expands out for the entire globe, 00:09:26.454 --> 00:09:28.908 but this map just chooses an example purpose for this presentation. 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. 00:09:34.062 --> 00:09:38.038 Integrating the dataset into a global knowledge base 00:09:38.038 --> 00:09:42.015 of our resource management system as a function of a systems approach we have being exploring. 00:09:42.015 --> 00:09:46.492 Another example of visualizing systems approach, 00:09:46.492 --> 00:09:51.031 in action, is viewing compiled data from our global resource system. 00:09:51.031 --> 00:09:56.354 Here, a member of the google earth community, assembled this image from the CIA world factbook, 00:09:56.354 --> 00:10:00.000 showing the world oil consumption for the year 2007. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.100 This chart displays a exploring 3d graphs in the shape of each country, 00:10:04.100 --> 00:10:07.892 showing the relationship of the oil consumption between countries. 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, 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, 00:10:18.938 --> 00:10:22.215 that's daily, 80 million barrels, a day. 00:10:23.908 --> 00:10:28.400 So, how would you possible interact with such a system that meants data? 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, 00:10:33.400 --> 00:10:38.369 we would interact with this vast knowledge database via computerized AI systems. 00:10:39.938 --> 00:10:45.092 In an example of a computational knowledge of engineerying in generality exists, is Wolfram Alpha. 00:10:45.092 --> 00:10:48.969 This engine generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base 00:10:48.969 --> 00:10:52.846 in set on searching the internet and returning you links. 00:10:52.846 --> 00:10:56.108 In a resource based system that we advocate, 00:10:56.108 --> 00:11:00.515 such a concept can be easily scaled out to include the immensum database 00:11:00.515 --> 00:11:04.923 that is currently collected in both public and private sectors in the world today. 00:11:06.662 --> 00:11:09.969 Along with many free information in data products out there via the internet, 00:11:09.969 --> 00:11:15.831 one could well ponder that question that if a lower cooperation from our technology friends 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? 00:11:21.600 --> 00:11:24.862 And maybe the world is simply waiting for people enough who want to do so. 00:11:26.062 --> 00:11:29.069 The point is, threre are many real world working examples 00:11:29.069 --> 00:11:35.062 to show such collaborative social system is technically reality and not in someday phenomenal. 00:11:36.969 --> 00:11:40.123 And going to conclude here, with this artistic representation of the system 00:11:40.123 --> 00:11:43.277 is visualized by industrial designing social engineering, 00:11:43.277 --> 00:11:45.338 Jacque Fresco, from The Venus Project, 00:11:45.338 --> 00:11:48.231 who spent more than seventy years of his life researching such a direction. 00:11:49.262 --> 00:11:51.238 I hope this presentation is helping you to understand 00:11:51.238 --> 00:11:53.908 how these system approaches to resources management could work, 00:11:53.908 --> 00:11:57.692 how we can approach problem solving beyond the spheres of politics, 00:11:57.692 --> 00:12:02.223 how we can arrive in decisions via science rather than human oppinion or majority vote. 00:12:02.223 --> 00:12:08.369 And how current technology can be applied to make such a resource based system a reality.