WEBVTT 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 "What will be my life like?" "What could I do?" 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 [Introduction] 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and answering to that question: 99:59:59.999 --> 99:59:59.999 and because it is hard to understand now, we propose it by stimulating readers' fantasy 00:00:13.600 --> 00:00:18.520 [The Zeitgeist Movement Italy] 00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:20.160 [in collaboration with] 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:27.680 [Il Movimento Umanista] 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:33.000 [presents] 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:39.917 [Federico Pistono] 00:00:39.967 --> 00:00:42.472 [Daniele Mancinelli] 00:01:01.430 --> 00:01:07.480 [2nd International Symposium "Foundation of the New Civilization" - Parchi di Studio e di Riflessione, 29–31 October 2010] 00:01:09.313 --> 00:01:18.201 Let's proceed with the lecture in area 2: science and technology with Federico Pistono 00:01:18.201 --> 00:01:25.361 He's film-maker, blogger, and IT expert. In 2002 He wins a scholarship for an international college, 00:01:25.361 --> 00:01:32.464 in 2007 funds "Grilli biellesi", a nonprofit association of volounteers. 00:01:32.464 --> 00:01:38.586 from 2008 he starts working in a media farm in Verona as a film director and web programmer, 00:01:38.586 --> 00:01:45.836 in 2009 graduates with a degree in computer science and wins an international contest of bloggers and journalists. 00:01:45.836 --> 00:01:50.489 Since May 2009 He's the italian coordinator of The Zeitgeist Movement 00:01:50.489 --> 00:01:59.619 a social movement counting half a million members all over the world considered the activist arm of the Venus project. 00:01:59.619 --> 00:02:08.333 In this report also collaborates Daniele Mancinelli for the technical part, 00:02:08.333 --> 00:02:15.026 He has a degree in chemistry and pharmaceutical technology and worked on his master in molecular biology in Norway, 00:02:15.026 --> 00:02:22.530 currently he's a research manager in the nutraceutical field. 00:02:22.530 --> 00:02:31.856 The title of the lecture is: The Venus Project and The Zeitgeist Movement. 00:02:35.364 --> 00:02:41.110 I'd like to thank the Human Centre for having invited us here 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:44.410 and for the opportunity to talk about our project 00:02:44.410 --> 00:02:46.374 and our idea of society. 00:02:46.374 --> 00:02:48.600 I also thank the previous speakers, 00:02:48.600 --> 00:02:54.655 and in particular Professor Baracca for having pointed out a few problems in our society. 00:02:54.655 --> 00:02:59.680 I'll try not to sin of pride 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:02.387 presenting a possible solution 00:03:02.387 --> 00:03:07.402 to the problems identified earlier. 00:03:07.402 --> 00:03:10.560 Technology advances at an exponential rate, 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:20.840 and yet our living conditions don't seem to improve accordingly. 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:31.000 Society seems to be paralysed by something that restrain and divert it. 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:44.078 So, how can a normal person, like me or you, contribute for the betterment of society and everyone's life? 00:03:45.101 --> 00:03:48.800 How can we solve the problems that affect the human species 00:03:48.815 --> 00:03:52.643 that we talked about before? 00:03:52.643 --> 00:04:04.409 Let's have a quick look of the future of the human species and how you can help. 00:04:04.409 --> 00:04:08.137 I want to say that the current economic system 00:04:08.137 --> 00:04:13.492 kills true innovation and the development of human culture, 00:04:13.492 --> 00:04:19.240 and that we have to learn to base our activities on the resources of the planet, 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:25.404 living in harmony with it, rather than destroying it. 00:04:25.404 --> 00:04:30.240 That's all. We can all go home now... 00:04:32.040 --> 00:04:35.840 OK, I'm here to share with you some very simple thoughts, 00:04:35.840 --> 00:04:41.913 which too often are forgotten or misunderstood. 00:04:41.913 --> 00:04:46.302 [Exponential graph] 00:04:46.302 --> 00:04:59.007 This chart represents the exponential growth of technology through time. 00:04:59.007 --> 00:05:06.207 There are no numbers because the purpose is just to show a concept. 00:05:06.207 --> 00:05:11.560 [X Axis: "Time", Y axis: "Technological Progress"] 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:23.396 What does "exponential growth" mean? 00:05:23.396 --> 00:05:32.069 A linear growth is when you add up the same relative amount through time, 00:05:32.069 --> 00:05:42.520 but when you multiply a positive amount by itself, that's an exponential growth. 00:05:42.520 --> 00:05:47.760 People confuse this idea with Moore's Law, 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:52.313 which predicts that CPU performance and the number of transistors, 00:05:52.313 --> 00:05:55.222 double every 18 months. 00:05:55.222 --> 00:05:57.642 It's an error. 00:05:57.642 --> 00:06:04.304 The human species has increased its technological knowledge 00:06:04.304 --> 00:06:09.480 which constantly doubles every 14 months for over 100 years. 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:16.059 The exponential growth started long before Gordon Moore was even born. 00:06:16.059 --> 00:06:20.212 From the industrial revolution to mass production, 00:06:20.212 --> 00:06:25.228 from punch cards to the **thermionic valves** 00:06:25.228 --> 00:06:28.963 not only transistors, but DNA sequencing, 00:06:28.963 --> 00:06:31.600 the reverse-engineering of the human brain, 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:36.225 number of inventions and discoveries, nanotechnologies, 00:06:36.225 --> 00:06:40.920 mass communications, the ability to store information. 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:48.960 all these and many other aspect have risen exponentially. 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:54.320 It's hard to think in terms of exponential growth because our brain doesn't work that way, 00:06:54.320 --> 00:06:59.969 it didn't evolve with that goal. 00:06:59.969 --> 00:07:05.791 Try to imagine: 30 thousand years ago, in the savannah. 00:07:05.791 --> 00:07:09.646 We're fleeing from a tiger that wants to eat you. 00:07:09.646 --> 00:07:18.575 What's more useful to our survival? 00:07:18.575 --> 00:07:24.274 Being able to think in linear terms, where the tiger will be 10 seconds 00:07:24.274 --> 00:07:29.500 I mean, the tiger starts to run, 30-40km/h 00:07:30.490 --> 00:07:31.480 or in exponential terms? 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.020 maybe those who think linearly will survive more. 00:07:35.020 --> 00:07:39.037 Otherwise we start running to early, we get tired and the tiger... "gnam"! 00:07:39.037 --> 00:07:48.798 So only the ones that made linear projections in the near future survived. 00:07:48.798 --> 00:07:53.560 What does it mean reason in exponential terms? 00:07:53.560 --> 00:08:00.160 This evolutionary heritage doesn't help much when we want to project ourselves into the future. 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:06.015 Here's an example: suppose I want to make reproduce a bacterial colony in this glass, 00:08:06.077 --> 00:08:14.900 I now go to the lab and let it reproduce 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:19.800 so I feed it and every minute the colony reproduces. 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:25.137 Please, those who already know the story, don't spoil it 00:08:25.137 --> 00:08:37.182 OK, every minute, this colony doubles in size, eating up all the resources 00:08:37.182 --> 00:08:44.904 After 60 minutes the colony has filled the glass completely and all bacteria die. 00:08:44.904 --> 00:08:55.437 Now, imagine the glass is empty. I put the bacterial colony, doubles every, after 60 minutes the glass is full. 00:08:55.437 --> 00:09:09.306 The question is: after 55 minutes, what percentage of the glass the colony has filled? 00:09:09.306 --> 00:09:14.005 Half? Less than half? 00:09:14.005 --> 00:09:21.136 3.125%. 00:09:21.136 --> 00:09:27.720 3.125% after 55 minutes. 6.250% a minute later, then 12, 24... 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:32.462 In 6 doubling we reach 120% and... all dead. 00:09:32.462 --> 00:09:37.885 Now imagine this anthropomorphic bacteria. 00:09:37.885 --> 00:09:51.496 They live and multiply for 55 minutes, they have meetings, then suddenly one comes out and says: "guys, we need a bigger glass!" 00:09:51.496 --> 00:09:55.302 And they say: are you nuts? 00:09:55.302 --> 00:10:06.354 "It's been 55 minutes, and we're only at 3%! Shut up, dude, we've still got hours left..." 00:10:06.354 --> 00:10:13.460 4-5 minutes and they're all dead. That's exponential growth. 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:21.431 We're like the bacteria. 5 minutes on evolutionary scale and... we're all done! 00:10:21.431 --> 00:10:28.092 But nobody explains that in these terms. It seems too simple, but it is that simple. 00:10:28.092 --> 00:10:35.760 The economic system is based on exponential growth, in technology 00:10:35.760 --> 00:10:40.148 but also in the trade of goods and services for profit. 00:10:40.148 --> 00:10:47.551 We have to buy stuff that we don't need with money that we don't have. 00:10:47.551 --> 00:10:52.675 Something doesn't work! 00:10:56.737 --> 00:11:03.400 Thanks to this wonderful exponential growth, we can now enjoy all the comfort of modern life. 00:11:03.400 --> 00:11:11.674 Medicine, computers, mobile phones, Internet, movies, airplanes, power plants! 00:11:11.674 --> 00:11:15.423 Everything. 00:11:15.423 --> 00:11:20.387 Technology allows us to do incredible things. 00:11:20.387 --> 00:11:30.730 In the end, however, I need to ask myself a question. What makes my life meaningful? 00:11:30.730 --> 00:11:33.345 Technology? 00:11:33.345 --> 00:11:41.466 All the wonders of science and technology are nothing but thousands of tons of junk, 00:11:41.466 --> 00:11:46.325 unless they serve to improve people's life. 00:11:46.325 --> 00:11:59.031 Technology should free people from hard, monotonous, dangerous and repetitive jobs; and also degrading 00:11:59.031 --> 00:12:05.045 to elevate them in a way that they can finally achieve their potential. 00:12:05.045 --> 00:12:14.690 Sure, in our civilised world technological progress grows at an exponential rate, just look at the numbers 00:12:15.244 --> 00:12:23.560 but I believe this chart is incomplete, and we need to draw another line. 00:12:23.560 --> 00:12:26.258 [exponential and linear chart] 00:12:26.258 --> 00:12:28.935 Here it is. This is the Zeitgeist line. 00:12:28.935 --> 00:12:32.431 Zeitgeist is a German word literally meaning "spirit of time" 00:12:32.431 --> 00:12:39.130 that is "the defining spirit or mood of society through time". 00:12:39.130 --> 00:12:44.362 And we see that the Zeitgeist can't catch up. It's a linear trend. 00:12:44.362 --> 00:12:47.705 Because we are not used to think exponentially 00:12:47.705 --> 00:12:55.555 Our educational system is based on linear projections, linear way of teaching. 00:12:55.555 --> 00:13:03.683 We don't update our knowledge at exponential rate. 00:13:03.683 --> 00:13:09.705 The gap between the two lines become wider and wider. 00:13:09.705 --> 00:13:14.320 This is a problem. 00:13:15.058 --> 00:13:21.750 The culture, the Zeitgeist, can't catch up with technology. We see that every day! 00:13:21.750 --> 00:13:28.320 Infinite economic growth is not only unsustainable but also ecologically deleterious. 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:36.431 The market system is not based on the intelligent management of the limited earth's resources 00:13:36.431 --> 00:13:43.290 but on their constant exploitation for profit. 00:13:43.290 --> 00:13:51.052 Infinite growth on one hand, finite resources on the other. 00:13:51.052 --> 00:13:58.896 That doesn't work, sooner or later either of them must end. 00:13:58.896 --> 00:14:06.600 An economist and all his theories... bullshit! It's that simple! 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:11.240 Don't think that because an argument is simple than there must be something wrong with it. 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:13.159 It's really that simple! 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:18.006 We have finite resources and seemingly infinite desires. 00:14:18.006 --> 00:14:25.114 That's want you to believe it's true. But it's not. Something has to change. 00:14:25.129 --> 00:14:36.560 Everyday we pollute lands, rivers, oceans, and most important people's minds. 00:14:36.560 --> 00:14:39.640 There's only one reason. 00:14:39.640 --> 00:14:45.240 I've been thinking about that and I've arrived at this conclusion: 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:51.220 we have forgotten what is relevant. 00:14:53.174 --> 00:15:01.600 The only economic model that has a chance to succeed, in any society 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:12.222 is based on the management and preservation of the natural resources, not on money for sure, which is an invention. 00:15:12.222 --> 00:15:15.416 Resources, on the contrary, are real. 00:15:15.416 --> 00:15:20.080 This is what I've learned from the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project, 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:23.331 and that's the reason why I decided to become the Italian coordinator 00:15:23.331 --> 00:15:27.577 and dedicate my spare time to this project. 00:15:27.577 --> 00:15:33.720 So the question is: How do we bring this line [the Zeitgeist] 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:41.911 to the step of the technology? avoiding so the collapse. 00:15:41.911 --> 00:15:48.741 I think the answer is right before a simple word: 00:15:48.741 --> 00:15:51.840 (the word is simple, but resolution is difficult) 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:54.708 "Education". 00:15:54.708 --> 00:15:58.271 Education is the only thing can save us. 00:15:58.271 --> 00:16:00.984 and here the Zeitgeist movement comes in his rule. 00:16:00.984 --> 00:16:07.053 It is a social movement that points to a radical change of our values on global scale, 00:16:07.053 --> 00:16:12.692 to raise the zeitgeist, or the spiritual culture of the society, 00:16:12.692 --> 00:16:18.260 to a more human and sane level, based on earth resources, 00:16:18.260 --> 00:16:21.995 on our scientific and technological knowledge, 00:16:21.995 --> 00:16:28.640 and on freedom of people, that will finally dedicate to something 00:16:28.640 --> 00:16:34.325 they feel more important for their lives, elevating their potential. 00:16:34.325 --> 00:16:39.062 That's it. This is relevant. 00:16:39.062 --> 00:16:42.277 Almost all problems that humanity is facing 00:16:42.277 --> 00:16:47.726 are at the range of a technical solution. 00:16:47.726 --> 00:16:53.055 no doubt about this, You can ask to any scientist that has done a minimum 00:16:53.055 --> 00:16:58.320 a tiny bit of true research, on this subject. 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:04.839 Nobody will tell you that problems won't have a technical solution. 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:12.080 energetic problems would be irrelevant if we did not use a paralyzing system 00:17:12.080 --> 00:17:15.912 That has to invest on non renewable resources. 00:17:15.912 --> 00:17:22.320 We have solar nano photovoltaic cells that are efficient and economic too, 00:17:22.320 --> 00:17:27.840 the production of solar energy has been doubling every 24 months since last 20 years. 00:17:27.840 --> 00:17:34.145 Google and Kurzweil have forecast we're only 8 steps behind, 00:17:34.145 --> 00:17:44.720 this means that with the trend of the last 20 years applied to the next 16, we will have achieved the whole earth production, 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:50.160 only by solar energy. 00:17:54.206 --> 00:18:00.680 The offshore wind farm installations are increasingly a reality, and costs are repaid in few years 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:11.971 every week there are news of some new nation or corporation that has installed 50, 100 wind farms, more and more bigger. 00:18:11.971 --> 00:18:20.594 They are more and more efficient, they repay costs in lesser time and produce more and more energy. 00:18:20.594 --> 00:18:23.649 It's so obvious. 00:18:23.649 --> 00:18:27.686 Portugal and the UK are already installing tidal power plants. 00:18:27.686 --> 00:18:32.561 A form of energy which is not even mentioned, during energy conferences. 00:18:32.561 --> 00:18:36.480 Free energy, from the sea. 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:46.269 A 2006 MIT study has shown that with today's technology, not therefore with speculative prototypes, 00:18:46.269 --> 00:18:59.801 only with the geothermal energy, we could produce enough power to satisfy all of man's needs 00:18:59.801 --> 00:19:04.702 several times, for thousand years. 00:19:04.702 --> 00:19:13.080 The geothermal is an energy with very low environmental impact, and with the next generation can be reduced to almost zero, 00:19:13.080 --> 00:19:21.086 and is now available everywhere. Italy is a country rich in geothermal energy 00:19:21.086 --> 00:19:29.520 and we are not using it at all. It is simple: who makes money if it is an energy that doesn't cost anything? 00:19:29.520 --> 00:19:33.655 Who's going to pay for that? Who makes profit? 00:19:33.655 --> 00:19:43.242 When you create abundance, the profit disappears. Then the abundance is the enemy of profit. 00:19:44.857 --> 00:19:53.240 Many say to me: "OK, energy... but we are too many on this planet! 00:19:53.240 --> 00:20:03.320 We are almost 7 billion, and shortly 8, 9, 10 in 2050. How can we produce food for all? 00:20:03.320 --> 00:20:13.989 We are already exploiting every part of the planet with a heavy subsistence farming, 00:20:13.989 --> 00:20:19.560 there's no more space, no more food". 00:20:19.560 --> 00:20:24.726 Do not believe this, that's not true! 00:20:24.726 --> 00:20:30.682 OK, if we stopped eating like pigs every day maybe we'd solve the problem... 00:20:30.682 --> 00:20:40.591 Jokes aside, a healthier diet would benefit us, eat less meat -like some decades ago- 00:20:41.514 --> 00:20:45.565 Anyway. 00:20:45.581 --> 00:20:54.217 Technically that's not a problem. A synergy of aeroponics, hydroponics and aquaponics 00:20:54.217 --> 00:20:57.733 made in a controlled environment on vertical buildings 00:20:57.733 --> 00:21:02.680 drastically reduce the ecological footprint and the demand of water: 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:11.040 we would save 90% of water and 80% of space if we compare it to traditional methods. 00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:16.320 It would require no pesticides at all. 00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:28.520 Pesticides and weed-killers are made with petrol. Don't believe to anyone saying that there's no space. That's not true. 00:21:28.520 --> 00:21:35.840 [A question from the audience] "What's the name of these cultures you talked about?" 00:21:35.840 --> 00:21:42.230 Hydroponics, aquaponics and aeroponics. These cultures do not need earth. 00:21:42.230 --> 00:21:48.713 On the water, on air using water vapour, the roots absorb it 00:21:48.713 --> 00:21:54.454 or you can have an integrated system, where fish and plants live in symbiosis 00:21:54.454 --> 00:21:59.457 plants will commute their waste as a nutrient for fishes and vice-versa: 00:21:59.472 --> 00:22:05.905 it's an integrated cycle. It works perfectly nothing is wasted. 00:22:05.905 --> 00:22:11.215 No need for pesticides, oil. Abundance for all... 00:22:11.215 --> 00:22:17.093 But why should we do it? Where is the profit? 00:22:17.093 --> 00:22:24.679 I could go on with these examples, but you can find many free books, videos, publications about this technology 00:22:24.679 --> 00:22:27.409 on our site: www.zeitgeistitalia.org you can find the links 00:22:27.409 --> 00:22:33.901 to new scientist, nature, science, physorg, all detailed scientific publications wit the names of the authors 00:22:33.901 --> 00:22:40.226 there's the singularity university at Stanford, that's working on these projects 00:22:40.226 --> 00:22:53.213 on zeitgeistitalia.org you can find all references, at the end of the presentation I'll show the links, and a PDF will be available on the site 00:22:53.213 --> 00:23:04.339 The problem is that people don't even know that these solutions actually exist. 00:23:04.339 --> 00:23:17.969 All these technologies are here, at hand, in 2010, not in 2200! 00:23:17.969 --> 00:23:30.220 But then, how's possible that even with these technologies our society is falling down? 00:23:30.220 --> 00:23:48.898 According to a UN report of 2010, every 5 seconds a child die from starvation. 00:23:48.898 --> 00:23:54.854 Another one is dead. 00:23:54.854 --> 00:23:57.747 Think about what it means. 00:23:57.747 --> 00:24:07.640 Today, we could provide food to everyone and more, but we do not do this. 00:24:10.409 --> 00:24:13.976 Why? 00:24:13.976 --> 00:24:18.840 For profit? 00:24:18.840 --> 00:24:27.757 A question comes back to my mind: "What's does really matter? What makes my life meaningful?" 00:24:27.757 --> 00:24:34.064 There are multinationals like Monsanto that actually patented life forms. 00:24:34.064 --> 00:24:40.720 They sell infertile seeds to farmers, and these people find themselves to be trapped between lawyers and patents 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:48.503 and if they don't follow the rules, they're over. 00:24:48.503 --> 00:24:53.262 These are the things that people must know. 00:24:53.262 --> 00:25:02.067 To solve a problem, there are some basic and necessary conditions: 00:25:02.067 --> 00:25:07.320 1. First of all, you must understand that there's a problem. 00:25:07.320 --> 00:25:10.129 Otherwise you would think that everything's alright and if someone gives you a solution, 00:25:10.129 --> 00:25:14.908 the reaction could be "A solution to what? I'm fine, what do you want from me?" 00:25:14.908 --> 00:25:19.154 2. You must find a solution 00:25:19.154 --> 00:25:29.400 Otherwise, you would just keep talking without doing nothing. 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:39.262 3. You must find an adequate number of people concerned about it. 00:25:39.262 --> 00:25:45.172 Then you can start doing things for real. 00:25:45.172 --> 00:25:48.905 Forgive my "quotation marks". 00:25:48.905 --> 00:25:53.222 The first step is to get through mental scarcity, 00:25:53.222 --> 00:25:58.431 and this is achieved with education. Broadly speaking. 00:25:58.431 --> 00:26:03.523 Education is not only learn by heart the Euclid's and Pytagora's theorems 00:26:03.523 --> 00:26:06.307 Education is about all your life. 00:26:06.307 --> 00:26:11.245 Education is to know how to talk to people, how to be empathic. 00:26:11.245 --> 00:26:19.894 Education is to know how to raise a child, know how to teach, know how to listen to what others have to say. 00:26:19.894 --> 00:26:22.820 Education is all our life. 00:26:22.820 --> 00:26:28.642 Don't be tricked by how they distorted words in the last years: 00:26:28.642 --> 00:26:34.710 science = atomic bomb, education = go to school and take good grades 00:26:34.710 --> 00:26:40.092 Nothing like that. 00:26:40.092 --> 00:26:48.124 Many people ask to me: "So, the Zeitgeist Movement is only about education? 00:26:48.124 --> 00:26:55.760 Why don't you start making something more practical? The first experimental city? When will you start gather some funds 00:26:55.760 --> 00:27:05.391 to make the perfect city, where everything is recycled and people just come there and robots make everything?..." 00:27:05.422 --> 00:27:09.562 When do you do something practical? 00:27:09.562 --> 00:27:15.902 Asking questions like this just proves a person didn't understand a single word. 00:27:15.902 --> 00:27:19.175 Imagine to take a native Australian 00:27:19.175 --> 00:27:22.689 Let's make a "thought experiment" just like Einstein 00:27:22.689 --> 00:27:30.077 Take this native Australian and "throw" him in the center of Manhattan, in Times Square. 00:27:30.077 --> 00:27:38.880 Try to imagine how he could feel. Probably he will go crazy after 2 or 3 days. 00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:48.065 Alright, now take a person who believes in the current economic system based on profit 00:27:48.065 --> 00:27:53.970 and put him into a sustainable city, where everything is recycled, where people help each other 00:27:53.970 --> 00:27:56.074 and he will go crazy after 3 days. 00:27:56.074 --> 00:28:02.800 "Where is the police? Why aren't doors locked? Safety... ahhhh!" 00:28:02.800 --> 00:28:09.481 Be serious. Before doing something 00:28:09.481 --> 00:28:12.806 you need to understand why you are doing it. 00:28:12.806 --> 00:28:16.131 From my point of view, we've got two options. 00:28:16.131 --> 00:28:22.889 Option Number zero: maintain the status quo. 00:28:22.889 --> 00:28:25.685 Keep things the way they are. 00:28:25.685 --> 00:28:28.480 What is the world going to be like? 00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:35.400 If we look at the trends, we can make predictions for the next 10, 20, 30 years. 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:44.280 I see a world dominated by a handful of corporations. 00:28:44.280 --> 00:28:51.840 They will hold patents on everything: new ideas, inventions, technologies, medicines. 00:28:51.840 --> 00:28:56.150 And life. 00:28:56.150 --> 00:29:01.160 Technology will grow at a rate so fast... 00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:14.400 (this is only the beginning and there's a significant increase. I didn't mark the next steps otherwise you wouldn't even see the blue line, 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:23.400 you wouldn't notice the difference with the X axis, while the other goes straight up, almost vertically) 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:39.125 Exponential growth doesn't seem relevant when you consider small numbers, but it goes out of control as numbers get bigger. It's unimaginable. 00:29:39.125 --> 00:29:47.752 The gap between the two lines will be so wide that the average person will not have a clue of what's happening 00:29:47.752 --> 00:29:51.159 "Oh God! I don't understand anything... ahhh!" 00:29:51.159 --> 00:29:54.197 and will search an authority figure who would give security. More locks, more police, complete scan even on the train 00:29:54.197 --> 00:30:01.127 Ah, yes! More locks on our doors. 00:30:01.127 --> 00:30:03.380 More police. 00:30:03.380 --> 00:30:09.263 Yes! Full body scan. Not just on airports, but also on train stations, 00:30:09.263 --> 00:30:19.424 even in the public offices, if you have gobble a clip, they shot you 'cause they think you have a bomb... 00:30:19.424 --> 00:30:24.428 Relax, relax. 00:30:24.428 --> 00:30:33.320 In 20 year we'll have microchip small as a cell, and it will cost less than waste paper. 00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:43.069 We'll have power to alter material at molecular level, at very low cost. 00:30:43.069 --> 00:30:51.520 That means possibility to replicate anything only having basic information. 00:30:51.520 --> 00:31:01.840 The question is: who control these technologies? 00:31:01.840 --> 00:31:07.902 That's an handful of corporations? 00:31:07.902 --> 00:31:12.630 Whose aim - i would remember it - is profit? 00:31:12.630 --> 00:31:18.080 That's the army? 00:31:18.080 --> 00:31:30.560 All knowledge is shared, in good science. If it isn't, it's bad science, and it's a kind of tyranny. 00:31:30.560 --> 00:31:38.139 I don't like that: centralized power, minds ruined, resources destroyed. 00:31:38.139 --> 00:31:47.320 all because of the profit mechanism and for not taking into account what is really relevant. 00:31:47.320 --> 00:31:58.981 Finally, I'm sorry to say that, the possible extinction of the human species because of its inability to live in dynamic equilibrium with the environment. 00:31:58.981 --> 00:32:06.294 I'm not a doomsday guy, but that's a realistic possibility, according to the past trends. 00:32:06.294 --> 00:32:09.320 That was option number zero. 00:32:09.320 --> 00:32:19.540 Now I'd like to introduce option number one, at least I'll try. I'm not saying it's an easy one or the right one, or the best one, 00:32:19.540 --> 00:32:25.313 but surely it's better than option number zero. 00:32:25.313 --> 00:32:33.400 We begin a process of cultural evolution that is up to date with our technological understandings. 00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:43.154 Applying the scientific method, we gradually get rid of all the irrelevant beliefs and paralysing dogmas, 00:32:43.154 --> 00:32:48.920 and base our activities on what the planet can provide, 00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:51.960 not on what somebody arbitrarily wants. 00:32:51.960 --> 00:33:00.720 All knowledge is shared, everything is crystal clear, everyone has access to resources 00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.600 and available information. 00:33:04.600 --> 00:33:11.053 Open source: free access, shared knowledge, well informed people. 00:33:11.053 --> 00:33:17.845 In my opinion, it's impossible to prevent war, terrorism, crime, 00:33:17.845 --> 00:33:22.730 without addressing the root causes that generates them. 00:33:22.730 --> 00:33:37.228 Abundant resources, healthy planet, high quality education, high standard of living for everyone, not one human being excluded. 00:33:37.228 --> 00:33:41.480 Not one excluded! 00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:46.971 Not only 350 million Europeans, 330 million Americans, 130 million Japanese... no. 00:33:46.971 --> 00:33:57.211 7 billion people today, 10 billion in 2060... everybody, the same high standard of living 00:33:57.211 --> 00:34:05.753 I'm very positive about the future. Why? Because I'm a crazy idealist? 00:34:05.753 --> 00:34:11.800 Maybe... the truth is I don't see any other options. 00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:17.979 As far as I'm concerned, the only option truly valid in number one. 00:34:17.979 --> 00:34:21.920 Actually I'm positive because I've got a memory. 00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:28.062 Yep, I'm young but I wasn't born the other day, and I remember what happened in the past 00:34:28.062 --> 00:34:33.400 and what I've seen, the change in our culture 00:34:33.400 --> 00:34:42.160 Let's step back. Imagine. Imagine I go back to my professor of economy at college, 00:34:42.160 --> 00:34:53.322 Simon Folley, English, 8 years ago, saying: "Professor, I've got an extraordinary idea for a new economic model. 00:34:53.322 --> 00:35:04.059 Here's how it works: you take a bunch of people around the world with a highly qualified job, 00:35:04.059 --> 00:35:12.169 and they work on a project for free, 20 or 30 hours a week". 00:35:12.169 --> 00:35:14.542 At this point Simon looks a little bit skeptical. 00:35:14.542 --> 00:35:19.362 "Wait, I'm not done! 00:35:19.362 --> 00:35:22.726 what they create, they give it way to the world, 00:35:22.726 --> 00:35:29.659 for free, instead of selling it. It's going to be a huge success!" 00:35:29.659 --> 00:35:42.224 He would have thought I was crazy. Nevertheless, today we have Linux and BSD, free operating systems 00:35:42.224 --> 00:35:49.068 running on almost every server in the world; 00:35:49.068 --> 00:35:58.880 Apache, the most popular web server in the world, Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in history, 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:06.491 even more accurate than the British Encyclopedia and Microsoft Encarta, which both have paid teams of experts working on them 00:36:06.491 --> 00:36:12.056 and the articles are less than one tenth compared to Wikipedia. 00:36:12.056 --> 00:36:29.061 What's happening? Why these people, who already have a job, the technical skills, 00:36:29.061 --> 00:36:36.062 during their limited spare time are willing to do another job, even more difficult, 00:36:36.062 --> 00:36:43.977 not for their clients, but for somebody else, FOR FREE! 00:36:43.977 --> 00:36:52.480 It's a rather weird economic behaviour, don't you think so? 00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:58.711 In just one year, the Zeitgeist Movement has reached half a million members all over the world, 00:36:58.711 --> 00:37:09.640 has produced two movies, a third one is coming out soon, two books, tens of recorded conferences all over the world. 00:37:09.640 --> 00:37:15.402 There are hundreds of activist groups scattered in 100 countries, who translate material to their language, 00:37:15.402 --> 00:37:23.520 organise meetings, movie screenings, discussions, create podcast, articles, music, art. 00:37:23.520 --> 00:37:31.880 All shared for free on the internet, under a Creative Common license. All done by volunteers. 00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:38.887 The Italian chapter has now 10,000 contacts and keep rising every day. 00:37:38.887 --> 00:37:53.489 Then, the old concept that people only work for profit, and without the money incentive nobody does anything 00:37:53.489 --> 00:37:58.280 maybe it's not true. 00:37:58.280 --> 00:38:05.080 It's hard to break the old schemes, because we're prisoners of common sense. 00:38:05.080 --> 00:38:15.912 It's difficult to realise that something we take for granted is actually wrong, and that reason is... 00:38:15.912 --> 00:38:21.712 ... that we take it for granted! 00:38:21.712 --> 00:38:31.665 For example, we are used to believe that for one's life is meaningful you need to have a job and make money. 00:38:31.665 --> 00:38:34.898 When you meet someone you say: "How do you do? I'm Federico. What do you do in life?" 00:38:34.898 --> 00:38:38.861 Meaning: "What's your job?" 00:38:38.861 --> 00:38:43.133 Because it's not: "What's your job", it's "Who are you?" 00:38:43.133 --> 00:38:46.929 How many times you really like your job and you wouldn't do anything else 00:38:46.929 --> 00:38:50.660 and if they tell you: "You can do anything you want" you'd answer "I want to do what I do!"? 00:38:50.660 --> 00:38:54.234 How many times? 00:38:54.234 --> 00:39:00.308 One in 10, 20, 100? 00:39:00.308 --> 00:39:07.490 Or the belief that some people are born evil, or competitive, 00:39:07.490 --> 00:39:21.000 and that it's "human nature" to fight to survive. 00:39:26.954 --> 00:39:29.588 I think that's not true. 00:39:29.588 --> 00:39:37.160 and I say this because the latest scientific studies lead to just that conclusion. 00:39:37.160 --> 00:39:46.560 In our brain, there are mirror neurons: we feel emotions and empathic stress in response to what we see in others. 00:39:46.560 --> 00:39:52.320 It's part of our biology. I'm not making stuff up, guys. 00:39:52.320 --> 00:40:00.313 We're programmed by natural selection to be empathic, cooperative, curious; 00:40:00.313 --> 00:40:06.322 and not competitive, destructive and lazy. 00:40:06.322 --> 00:40:10.162 But we have forgotten that. 00:40:10.162 --> 00:40:18.180 We have to broaden our sense of identity, to all human beings and all the other living creature 00:40:18.180 --> 00:40:25.332 that are part of our evolutionary family, and the biosphere as our community. 00:40:25.332 --> 00:40:32.653 In the words of the great Carl Sagan: "We are one planet". 00:40:35.022 --> 00:40:40.760 What we're celebrating with this lecture is the gift of human imagination, 00:40:40.760 --> 00:40:47.000 the ability to imagine a different future. 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:54.723 As Sir Ken Robinson said, we have to careful and use this gift wisely, 00:40:54.723 --> 00:40:59.840 to avoid some of the scenarios we have talked about. 00:40:59.840 --> 00:41:06.166 And that's possible only if we realise the real value of our creativeness. 00:41:06.166 --> 00:41:11.581 If we really are an empathic society, let's show our true nature. 00:41:11.581 --> 00:41:19.334 Unless we leave our creativity to be repressed by the education system and the establishment, 00:41:19.334 --> 00:41:24.323 we can open a discussion, from here, the foundation for a new civilization. 00:41:24.323 --> 00:41:37.680 Let's start rethinking the role of the human species on this planet, a collaborative society is far too efficient than a competitive one. 00:41:38.985 --> 00:41:43.552 Together we can lay the foundations for a new civilization 00:41:43.552 --> 00:41:45.216 empathic 00:41:45.216 --> 00:41:47.401 sustainable 00:41:47.401 --> 00:41:49.132 evolving 00:41:49.132 --> 00:41:50.875 humane. 00:41:50.875 --> 00:41:54.233 Thank you 00:42:26.416 --> 00:42:28.173 Any questions? 00:42:33.819 --> 00:42:42.754 I really like the name of the Movement... Zeitgeist... spirit of time 00:42:42.788 --> 00:42:46.267 in particular the word spirit 00:42:46.267 --> 00:42:50.847 because it's in some way connected with spirituality, with something deeper. 00:42:50.847 --> 00:42:54.437 I agree with everything you said, 00:42:54.437 --> 00:42:56.956 the door is already open, 00:42:56.956 --> 00:43:04.401 but I'd like to know, how do you see the spiritual aspect? 00:43:06.185 --> 00:43:07.513 Thank you 00:43:07.513 --> 00:43:16.982 Well, the movement has the aim to provide the social foundations 00:43:16.982 --> 00:43:22.233 to give every human being the opportunity to flourish, in all their aspects, 00:43:22.233 --> 00:43:30.990 education, social relationships, and also spirituality 00:43:30.990 --> 00:43:40.589 and our priority is to make sure that everyone can realise their potential 00:43:40.589 --> 00:43:48.244 and when one has access to the resources he needs, and no longer need to work to make a living, 00:43:48.244 --> 00:43:54.994 because we can, through automation and advanced technologies, without any problem, 00:43:54.994 --> 00:44:02.252 provide clean water, houses, energy and food for everyone; 00:44:02.252 --> 00:44:08.145 if you were born in a reality that offers you, as one of your rights, all these resources 00:44:08.145 --> 00:44:16.398 you could begin exploring your spirituality without being stressed because of work or because of people, 00:44:16.398 --> 00:44:22.690 and when education will make you understand how to live in a proactive way, 00:44:22.690 --> 00:44:31.149 how to think and call into question nature, life, everything you will learn, your spirituality, your world, the stars 00:44:31.149 --> 00:44:39.975 when finally you will have the time for yourself, then you will be able to think to your spirituality too, and in a much efficient way than you could do today. 00:44:39.975 --> 00:44:45.337 Today you have to "dematerialize" yourself from what actually makes you sad or stress in your everyday life 00:44:45.337 --> 00:44:50.789 like work, for example 00:44:50.789 --> 00:45:00.208 you have to meditate in order to push away your problems and, finally, be in contact with your spirituality 00:45:00.208 --> 00:45:13.182 if you wouldn't have to use time and energy trying to eliminate stress, don't you think it would be easier? 00:45:13.182 --> 00:45:21.971 What we actually think is that it is much more important to educate people about what we could do and how to do it: 00:45:21.971 --> 00:45:27.488 Venus Project is not the end, but just the beginning of our path. 00:45:27.488 --> 00:45:33.502 We don't see our society as a civilization, 00:45:33.502 --> 00:45:38.844 a civilized society, indeed, will exist when everyone will have access to the resources they need 00:45:38.844 --> 00:45:41.750 and when productions will be an automated process, 00:45:41.750 --> 00:45:46.469 when someone will take care of his kitchen-garden because it is a passion, not because he would otherwise die of starvation, 00:45:46.469 --> 00:45:49.684 when someone will have the chance to work as a artisan because he enjoys it, 00:45:49.684 --> 00:45:54.779 He makes his sculpture, and then, since not to sell for a living 00:45:54.779 --> 00:45:57.643 and maybe he will not be forced to sell his work, but he could even give it for free, as a gift 00:45:57.643 --> 00:46:07.141 and making gift will give you much more satisfaction than keeping everything just for yourself 00:46:07.141 --> 00:46:11.267 and that's why this is the only future we have, together. 00:46:11.267 --> 00:46:13.734 People usually think of a dualism in our society: rich and poor. 00:46:13.734 --> 00:46:15.537 The poor hates the rich, 00:46:15.537 --> 00:46:19.608 and the rich fears the poor. 00:46:19.608 --> 00:46:21.879 Thats's just wrong, 00:46:21.879 --> 00:46:25.846 we need rich people too, and make them understand that the only way they have to be happy 00:46:25.846 --> 00:46:29.639 is giving something, help other 00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:33.063 and not because some strange mistic theory says that, 00:46:33.063 --> 00:46:35.644 it's a scientific fact: 00:46:35.644 --> 00:46:47.831 making a FMRI scan we can see how our brain responds to an action made for ourself and our profit 00:46:47.831 --> 00:46:50.019 or when we do something for others. 00:46:50.019 --> 00:46:57.657 The satisfaction you receive when you do something altruistic is much more deep 00:46:57.657 --> 00:46:59.841 and we have to make people understand this. 00:46:59.841 --> 00:47:01.405 If you look at rich people, 00:47:01.405 --> 00:47:09.172 you will see that among them there is the highest percentage of suicides or the highest usage of antidepressants 00:47:09.172 --> 00:47:14.962 because, since they were young, they were educated 00:47:14.977 --> 00:47:22.400 to think that the most relevant thing is to make money, and that acquiring more goods will make them happy. 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:25.903 At the age of 30, 40, 50, 60 years 00:47:25.903 --> 00:47:33.372 they see that their life is empty, and the only thing that they are able to do leads them to be even more unhappy. 00:47:33.372 --> 00:47:38.742 So, why shouldn't we make them understand 00:47:38.742 --> 00:47:44.903 concepts like sharing and cooperations, from now? 00:47:44.903 --> 00:47:51.447 I think that this is spirituality too, 00:47:51.447 --> 00:47:56.711 this is what we call "social therapy" 00:47:56.711 --> 00:47:59.799 real education is an education of our spirit too, 00:47:59.799 --> 00:48:01.913 an education on how to relate with others, 00:48:01.913 --> 00:48:04.157 how to relate with nature, 00:48:04.157 --> 00:48:05.541 with other species, 00:48:05.541 --> 00:48:10.904 that we actually abuse like they were objects, 00:48:10.904 --> 00:48:14.410 That's spirituality too! 00:48:24.666 --> 00:48:27.772 Do you have any other question? 00:48:34.895 --> 00:48:39.927 When will Zeitgeist's next film be released? 00:48:40.650 --> 00:48:46.572 The next Zeitgeist's film, which is named "Moving Forward", will be released during January, in 2011, 00:48:46.572 --> 00:48:52.483 it will be released in more than 20 languages and in more than 60 countries, 00:48:52.483 --> 00:48:57.208 we will try to make it visible in some selected cinemas, 00:48:57.208 --> 00:49:01.347 an event that Zeitgeist's member will organize in their cities. 00:49:01.347 --> 00:49:07.170 Here you can find something about our project, everything is free 00:49:07.170 --> 00:49:16.355 there are some DvDs of Zeitgeist Addendum and a multimedial introduction to the movement 00:49:16.355 --> 00:49:19.029 and even some copies of the "Orientation guide for the activist" 00:49:19.029 --> 00:49:23.042 and if someone is really interested I can give them for free, even if they are for my personal use 00:49:23.042 --> 00:49:30.535 by the way, you can download them from the site in .pdf to print the book or buy it 00:49:30.535 --> 00:49:40.922 at its cost price, we don't have profit from it. 00:49:40.922 --> 00:49:45.844 I'd like to make a question to Daniele 00:49:47.413 --> 00:49:53.517 "Hi, Daniele. I was wondering about 00:49:53.517 --> 00:50:07.263 how your position in a big multinational affects your participation in Zeitgest Movement 00:50:07.263 --> 00:50:15.993 I think you probably try to bring this "spirit of the times" in your company. 00:50:15.993 --> 00:50:25.676 Well, other than the social therapy Federico was talking about, 00:50:25.676 --> 00:50:29.206 it is really important that we educate scientists too 00:50:29.206 --> 00:50:37.774 so what I wanted to ask you is how this can happen, and if you don't mind we'd like to hear something about your life? 00:50:37.774 --> 00:50:44.345 "What lead me to join Zetigest Movement, was indeed my experience 00:50:44.345 --> 00:50:47.689 because my "high" position at work 00:50:47.689 --> 00:51:01.551 give me the opportunity to observe all detrimental effects that our system based profit and competitions between corporations brought to people 00:51:01.551 --> 00:51:03.223 and my work associates are an example of this. 00:51:03.223 --> 00:51:05.011 They are wonderful people, 00:51:05.011 --> 00:51:08.726 great family men, and so on... 00:51:08.726 --> 00:51:11.443 But nowadays they are forced to take horrible decisions 00:51:11.443 --> 00:51:14.508 to "salve" the corporation they work for, 00:51:14.508 --> 00:51:18.269 because they and many other workers depend from it, 00:51:18.269 --> 00:51:24.051 so from this situation, I can understand that is not about evilness of people, 00:51:24.051 --> 00:51:27.975 but the global design of a system based on profit 00:51:27.975 --> 00:51:32.921 that generates the conditions for what companies are so selective, competitive and live and dominate without remorses, imposing their rules 00:51:32.921 --> 00:51:44.438 because in a competitive system, who wins can decide rules of the game 00:51:44.438 --> 00:51:48.270 and the winner is always the one lacking restraint 00:51:48.270 --> 00:51:56.141 I saw many fair companies leaded by wonderful people going bankruptcy because they cannot sustain that type of market 00:51:56.141 --> 00:52:01.691 our distorted view make us believe that people are selfish 00:52:01.691 --> 00:52:12.442 but the reality is that our system only choose the most selfish and make them winners, 00:52:12.442 --> 00:52:15.808 so we just see that minority 00:52:15.808 --> 00:52:28.161 without seeing who doesn't win because he just wanted to do something for others. 00:52:28.161 --> 00:52:30.530 But I can assure you that it's not like that 00:52:30.530 --> 00:52:34.477 I work in this corporation and I'm always in competition with other researchers 00:52:34.477 --> 00:52:47.852 and even when I tried to share something with them, like the Venus Project, 00:52:47.852 --> 00:52:55.770 they didn't trust me, 00:52:55.770 --> 00:52:59.764 because they thought it was just a way to "eliminate" them 00:52:59.764 --> 00:53:02.364 but this way of thinking went against them 00:53:02.414 --> 00:53:04.361 they expelled theirselves from "the game" by keeping the distances from me, 00:53:04.361 --> 00:53:10.724 while I advanced from my researcher position to manager. 00:53:10.724 --> 00:53:15.507 "So, you are the living being that collaborating is essential?" 00:53:15.507 --> 00:53:17.875 Yes! The collaboration is the most efficient thing 00:53:17.875 --> 00:53:26.676 and it's what I had to do to reach my actual position. To "fight" against other multinationals 00:53:26.676 --> 00:53:31.691 I brought in Norway with me teo Italians, 00:53:31.691 --> 00:53:35.128 we already trusted one another, 00:53:35.128 --> 00:53:37.636 so we created a team 00:53:37.636 --> 00:53:42.465 of just three people collaborating for the same objective. 00:53:42.465 --> 00:53:53.704 That's the main difference with other multinationals that keep their 100 workers in competition 00:53:53.704 --> 00:53:58.905 so everyone just work for himself, creating as a result, a 1% 00:53:58.905 --> 00:54:04.060 against our 100% percent 00:54:04.060 --> 00:54:08.797 because we work sharing our knowledge, we do not keep them for ourselves, 00:54:08.797 --> 00:54:11.792 and that's something everyone can do, 00:54:11.792 --> 00:54:14.967 it's just a matter of sensitiveness. 00:54:22.961 --> 00:54:27.117 "Ok, another question" 00:54:27.117 --> 00:54:54.819 "Did you thought about proposing something in schools, that most of the time kinda deform new generations minds? 00:54:54.819 --> 00:54:57.860 Thank you, a very good question! 00:54:57.860 --> 00:54:59.393 Yes, of course! 00:54:59.393 --> 00:55:03.967 One of our GdL (workgroups) is "Education" 00:55:03.967 --> 00:55:12.721 it's working on projects to realise a mini-guide for students and teachers, 00:55:12.721 --> 00:55:20.314 so teachers can teach in a different way 00:55:20.314 --> 00:55:23.751 and for primary schools' students. 00:55:23.751 --> 00:55:31.715 starting from comics or something like that 00:55:31.715 --> 00:55:33.875 becoming more complex 00:55:33.875 --> 00:55:43.395 to explain concepts like collaboration 00:55:43.395 --> 00:55:53.403 looking at nature, animals, stars 00:55:53.403 --> 00:55:55.469 collaborating with each other in the discoveries 00:55:55.469 --> 00:55:59.370 and also give lectures in schools are our priorities. 00:55:59.370 --> 00:56:17.366 Even though the movement is relatively young it has been growing exponentially 00:56:17.366 --> 00:56:23.565 now we have to understand what are the foundations to start from, 00:56:23.565 --> 00:56:28.302 create workgroups able to work in different areas 00:56:28.302 --> 00:56:39.349 for example, Video and Graphics workgroups for making flyers, stickers, PDF charts, T-shirts, and videos 00:56:39.349 --> 00:56:45.182 The translations workgroup is in charge to translate material from English to Italian 00:56:45.182 --> 00:56:53.194 and than we have the Formation workgroup who is developing a project called "My life in the Venus Project" 00:56:53.194 --> 00:56:57.553 until now we have written two episodes and we're working on the third one 00:56:57.553 --> 00:57:00.968 we have another editorial project, which is still under development, that should be published once every two months 00:57:00.968 --> 00:57:10.066 it will be a selection of our stories, science articles and about argumenting and communicating. 00:57:10.066 --> 00:57:14.489 In these episodes we imagine the future we are building. It could not be perfect, but it's surely better than the present. 00:57:14.489 --> 00:57:20.020 Imagine that five years after the transition passt 00:57:20.020 --> 00:57:24.827 in a world that is not perfect, but better than the current 00:57:24.827 --> 00:57:27.979 We try to answer some questions like: 00:57:27.979 --> 00:57:34.151 We will focus on how our life will be like without work, without the use of money 00:57:34.151 --> 00:57:41.110 bringing people to say: 00:57:41.110 --> 00:57:45.343 Imagine that you have to work. You need pasta, pomedori, we have them! 00:57:45.343 --> 00:57:46.857 What do you do? 00:57:46.857 --> 00:57:53.065 "I never thought about it, you know?" 00:57:53.065 --> 00:57:59.066 "You just have one life. When would you think about this? In the next one?" 00:57:59.066 --> 00:58:01.858 Our aim is to make people think how they would live and what they could do in a system not based on money. 00:58:01.858 --> 00:58:12.050 one of many, of how a family could live, or a researcher or an artist. 00:58:12.050 --> 00:58:16.735 How people would live in the venus project, in everyday life? 00:58:20.858 --> 00:58:24.035 Exactly. First here (the head) and then the rest. 00:58:24.035 --> 00:58:34.512 [I am very happy that the motto of the revolution of the 69 "imagination to power" we are still very active in 2011. Thank you.] 00:58:34.512 --> 00:58:35.852 Thank you.