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Global Sustainability: Science, Engineering and Technology for Human Concern

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Welcome everybody and thank you for coming to this lecture by Douglas Mallette.

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He is the CEO of the Cybernated Farm Systems,

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LLC,

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and also a former systems engineer on the

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NASA Space Shuttle Program.

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Let's give him a warm welcome.

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[Applause]

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All right. Thank you very much.

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I appreciate all of you who took time out of your day

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to come here and listen to what I'm going to talk about today.

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As was mentioned, I am the CEO of Cybernated Farm Systems.

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It's a company I just recently started.

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We'll talk a little bit about it later as it has some relevance to the topic.

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I'm not here really to talk about that so much.

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I am a former Space Shuttle Systems Engineer.

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I worked with a Boeing subcontractor in Houston, Texas,

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and I did that for a little over 3 years

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before they decided to start systematically shutting everything down

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(so everybody all got laid off at periodic times)

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at which point I decided  I can go play with missiles, bombs and guns

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because that's really what aerospace is starting to move towards

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(in my neck-of-the-woods which I'm not interested in),

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so I decided to do something a little more humanitarian.

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I'm the author of 'Turning Point',

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a book that talks about space exploration and development

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in a non-technical, user-friendly way.

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Unfortunately a lot of people have this mindset,

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not due any fault of their own. The media does not do a very good job

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of promoting space exploration and what it means to your everyday life,

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but they don't find a lot of relevance as to what space exploration means

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for mankind and their day-to-day operations.

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Throughout the course of today's lecture we're going to touch base on that concept,

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and what it means on how we operate on this planet.

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We are going to talk about space exploration and sustainability.

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What exactly do the two have to do with each other?

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Sustainability in space increases sustainability on Earth.

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There's nothing that we've ever invented for the space program

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that doesn't, in some way, find its way

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on to everyday Earth-based operations.

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Whether it's the CAT scan machine or MRI's

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or advanced materials that go into tires,

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advanced systems for brakes, for telecommunications.

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There's a gamut of possibilities

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of industries that are affected by space exploration.

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What we're going to do to start off with

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is called a Gedanken experiment, or a thought experiment,

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on what would be needed to build a base on Mars

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and how it would facilitate the needs of the astronauts. How will they live?

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How are we going to provide everything that they need?

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On Mars there's no grocery store,

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and so we have to think about how an astronaut would be able to live.

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There's no grocery store down the street for them to resupply.

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You can't just waste and go to the store and pick up a refresh.

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Logistically that's near impossible to pull off in a sustainable way,

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so what we look at is: Okay, what can we implement onto a Mars-based system?

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This is also used on the ISS, so

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these concepts actually don't just apply to Mars, but they would apply to the Moon

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or a long duration space craft or the International Space Station, the ISS.

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All these systems exist, today,

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but we don't use those derivative technologies down here very well.

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So, what are some of the things that you would need

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to maintain a human being's biological requirements,

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biological necessities of life? Anybody throw anything out.

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[man from audience] - Water and seeds. - Seeds? You mean food, right?

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Yes, ok. Food, water, what else? Yes? - Oxygen.

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Air, yeah. Clean breathable air.

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- Controlling too high/low temperatures.

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- Climate control? Right, ok.

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Waste reclamation and the proper handling of that, ok.

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Now what about quality of life needs?

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Things that enhance the quality of life beyond just the biological requirements?

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A lot of people don't think about those

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because we're immersed in them all the time. Yes?

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- Safety?

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Social needs, people to talk to, to feel like you're a part of something.  - Being connected with other people, ok.

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What kind of technical systems might be a quality of life?

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- Media. - Media?

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Oh, yes, ok. Entertainment and stuff like that. Right, and back there?

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Energy? Absolutely. That's a good one. What else?

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Transportation? All right! Yes?

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- Production. - Production, manufacturing,

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things like that, to get the things that they need on a local level.

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It's kind of hard to do the resupply so it helps to produce as much as you can.

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Now you guys kind of get some of the concepts, all right?

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Basic necessities of life.

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What are they? In a nutshell: air, food, water,

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sleep and medical care.

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Sleep and medical care seem to miss people, if you think about it.

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You don't think about "You need to sleep!"

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If sleep deprivation is a serious biological problem

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for people, it can cause you to go crazy or you can get really sick.

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In medical care, obviously if you hurt yourself,

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if you don't take care of that issue, that infection,

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your biological-ness will go 'prrrrrt' and you're done.

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So, you've got to make sure those things are covered.

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Now you've got your necessities for a high quality of life.

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Here are some of the most pedestrian things: shelter,

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clothing, education, energy, transportation and communication.

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If you think about how you interact with the world today

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you're involved with these on a regular basis,

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in different ways.

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Shelter on Mars, is actually more of a biological requirement

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than it is a quality of life enhancer, because

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you can't just go for a crisp walk in the Martian air.

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It doesn't work that way.

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On Earth you could technically live without shelter.

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You could exist as a human being; it wouldn't be very comfortable.

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In fact, you can exist without all of these, but your quality of life isn't very high.

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If you think back to the nomadic, hunter-gatherers,

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of 50,000 years ago,

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they lived but they didn't live that great.

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They moved around a lot. Nature could mess with them pretty easily,

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but they survived.

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When you're looking at a Mars Base, you will think to yourselves

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(or we in the space industry have given a lot of thought to)

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"All right, how can we provide those necessities

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on a level so that the astronauts

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aren't reduced to being just stewards of their environment?"

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See, it's one thing to provide these things.

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It's something else if you have to use a lot of human labor

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to constantly maintain them all the time,

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because after all, that's not why we would be sending astronauts to Mars

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in the first place, right? The point of them going there is to get out,

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go explore, do their science and do their research.

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Their job is not to be Farmer John or Farmer Jill.

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Their job is not supposed to be the manual labor force

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to create their water supply or to do anything like that.

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So what you'll want to do is to automate, computerize,

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and make technical as much of those processes as possible,

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so that the astronauts have the free time

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to go do what they're supposed to be doing: to go be astronauts.

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When you look at this on a level of  "Ok, this is what we have to do on Mars,"

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a lot of these problems have been addressed and are already overcome.

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The International Space Station operates

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in a highly automated fashion.

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That way, the astronauts that are on board

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don't have to, as much, maintain their environment directly.

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Another key thing, especially on Mars,

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would be having more than enough to suit their needs,

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having an abundance of their requirements.

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You can't afford to have a shortage in a place like that,

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because if you run out, people die. Same thing on the space shuttle:

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you have to make sure that you have more then enough of what you need

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so that you can complete the mission.

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And likewise on the ISS, on the space station.

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If you think about it in terms of Earth,

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it's by far the most important word

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with respect to mankind's ability to live peacefully.

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I draw up the scenario like this: If I took

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this group of people in this room right now,

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and I put you on a deserted island with nothing but 1 coconut tree,

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how long do you think you reasonable people would last

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before 'it [the shit] really hit the fan',

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before people started going after each other,

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started manipulating each other,

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started fighting each other to get to that food?

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You don't think of yourselves as aggressive, mean, nasty people,

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but if you're put in an environment that has that level of scarcity,

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you will turn into aggressive, mean, nasty people to survive.

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That's how it works.

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So conversely, what if we put 500 coconut trees on this island?

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[It's] way more than enough to cover everybody's needs for food.

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Do you think you're going to exhibit those negative behaviors?

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[It's] much less likely. You might quibble over other things,

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but you're definitely not going to fight over food,

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or at least over the coconuts.

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It's an important aspect when people talk about this

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human nature versus human nurture argument, I mean.

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It's kind of a quasi-combination of both,

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but our behaviors are highly modified

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by the environment that we're stuck in at the moment.

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You put us in a high stress, high scarcity environment,

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then we're not going to behave very well.

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more abundant environment for the things that we need,

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and we're less likely to exhibit these aberrant behaviors,

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these negative behaviors.

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Now we move, as far as Mars is concerned, to technical abundance,

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being able to create an abundance without the heavy use

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of human labor as the primary driver.

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Throughout the course of most of human history,

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the largest labor force on the planet has been human muscle.

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Then we started using animals a little more efficiently,

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but then we got to the point where we started developing technologies

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and machines to do a lot of the heavy lifting for us.

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Now we're in the 21st century where we can do a whole lot more

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with a whole lot less,

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and we're seeing some of the ramifications of that

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in our socio-economic 'hiccup' if you will;

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but on a Mars base it's an absolute necessity,

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because as we go back to it, there's only so many astronauts

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that can go there at any given time. They don't have a labor force of 100 people.

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and so if they want to live, work and cooperate together,

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there's a different mental structure to those astronauts

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as to how to work together. There's also a different environmental structure

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that allows them to live and work together in such a place.

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What kind of technology do we have today

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that can cover biological needs in abundance?

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Air, looking at the Earth.

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That's readily abundant, as long as we don't pollute it all.

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We're not doing a very good job at keeping clean air, but

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we are trying to get better at setting up regulations to cover that.

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rain collecting systems,

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an example of which would be NASA's spin-off

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from 2008, a portable nano mesh.

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Basically, it's a water bottle with a filter built into it,

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and you can go to the nastiest mud hole in Africa,

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push through and you'll get clean drinking water on the other end;

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and you can drink it right out of the same bottle you just dunked

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because the technology involved (and when people think technology

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they're only thinking computers and bells and whistles and Star Trek),

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it doesn't always have to be that high tech.

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It can be as simple as a nano mesh material

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that allows you to get clean drinking water relatively easily.

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NASA creates these spin-off magazines every single year.

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They're online, they're free, and they show

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technological progress that either NASA directly invented

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to help people out for the consumer market,

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or they've helped companies

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develop technologies to a higher level, using NASA know-how.

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Food.

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This goes slightly towards what I'm focusing on right now in my life:

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high tech  farming,  aquaponic and hydroponic systems.

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Who here is familiar with aquaponics or hydroponics?

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Ok, for those who don't know,

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basically it's the ability to grow plants

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vegetables, fruits, things like that,

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without dirt, without soil.

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It's using a liquid-based platform, and the plants work just fine.

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It's already a proven existing technology.

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Imagine having such a robust system

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in a 3rd world nation where the land is arid and dead.

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That's effectively what I'm doing,

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but I'm adding some bells and whistles to it a bit, to make it easier

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for the population that we're serving.

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What CFS is doing, my company,

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is building self-sustaining, fully automated, aquaponic farm buildings,

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that are about 464m2 in size,

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solar and wind powered with a battery-bank, backup system.

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I can feed 1600 people 10 different fruits and vegetables each,

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in that 1 building;

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and it's completely self sustaining, collects its own water,

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maintains its own energy balance.

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It does not need an infusion of extra nutrients because it's aquaponic,

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which means it has a small little fish farm built in.

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What that means

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is that the fish make the water dirty, through all their waste.

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Well, guess what? The plants actually like that.

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So, you take the dirty water. You send it over to the plants.

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They suck out all the nutrients. That cleans the water.

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closed loop, symbiotic system.

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the food that they eat is another plant that grows in the water,

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so that is its own closed-loop system.

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You don't have to add fish food. You don't really need to mess with it.

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In fact, when the building is all put together, you just turn it on and walk away,

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and it starts cranking out food: leafy greens, baby tomatoes, baby cucumbers.

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I affectionately call it a salad factory.

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It's really what it is, but it's a start.

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I mean, it will put food in the bellies of people

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who are literally starving to death by the thousands, every single day.

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I'm going to work with governments and humanitarian organizations

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to get these systems in place.

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Not just drop them on a village and feed and walk away,

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but teach these people how the system works:

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get them educated, increase their level of knowledge;

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work with them on how to be stewards of their own system

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to the highest degree possible, including 3D printing systems,

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that will manufacture their own parts from local materials,

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but we'll get to that in a little bit.

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Sleep: Well, that comes a lot easier when you're a lot less stressed.

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If you have a quality life environment where your food,

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your shelter, your water, your clothing, all of your needs are met,

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sleep is a lot easier to come by, but it needs to be addressed.

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You don't want to be stressed and sleepless.

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Medical Care: This is an amazing machine!

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It's called the 'Da Vinci' surgical assistant.

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You can look it up on Youtube and see all kinds of videos on it. In fact,

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I have a source sheet for all of the technologies that I'm showing you,

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links to various aspects of these technologies that you can look up.

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If anybody is interested in getting that source sheet,

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I don't talk about anything without having sources

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(that's the engineer scientist in me; I prove everything I say).

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If anybody is interested I have a sheet. You can give me your email address

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and I'll send an email to everybody, because I did not print them.

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I didn't know how many people would be here, so...

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It's much more ecologically sound if I just

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write it down and send it to you with electrons.

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This system allows a surgeon to manipulate a couple of handles

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and do surgery in a way that

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increases recovery time by 50 to 75% for the patients.

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The incisions for various medical terms that I don't even understand...

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They can do cardiac work, lung work, all kinds of work on the human body

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using this machine, and it basically is

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the ultimate assistant for the surgeons themselves.

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It can be done remotely

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where this system could be put in a village or a place

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where it's hard to get doctors to, or unrealistic,

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but we have telecommunication systems that are pretty amazing.

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I skype with my wife pretty much every single day on this trip,

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so if we can do that, we can do this.

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What about technologies for quality of life?

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What kind of things can we develop on this world

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to create an abundance of our quality of life needs?

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Shelter. I really got involved with contour crafting

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and got to know the man who developed the technology.

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He's a professor at the University of Southern California,

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and it really all started after the Haitian earthquake a couple of years ago.

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Now many of you, I assume, are familiar with what happened in Haiti,

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with the earthquake that basically demolished the vast majority of the country.

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A lot of those people are still living in tents,

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2 years later! How dumb is that?

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We live in the 21st century and we can't

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swipe and rebuild faster than that?

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What's wrong with us? This,

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is a robotic, self-erecting, fully automated system,

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which can build a 2000 square-foot house,

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which would be, what? 200 square meters, maybe?

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I'm terrible at the conversion, in my head.

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It'd probably be about a 200m2 house in 24 hours,

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an entire house, including plumbing and electrical,

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because it has additional side arms that can plumb and do the electrical as it goes.

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And, it can...

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It's mobile so it basically plops a house, moves along,

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plops a house, moves along,

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does rebar, sets the roof, does it all;

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and he already has (you can see on the other picture here, on the side)

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where you can see how he can do complex geometries, if necessary.

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I mean, for a place like Haiti that just got destroyed,

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it would be really easy to just plop a bunch of square blocks at first

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and build a quick little village, in what? A couple of days? Maybe a week,

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especially if you have 3 or 4 of these machines set up to just create that?

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You can recycle a lot of the materials that are there. Yes?

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How has this technology been tested out to build full houses?

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He doesn't have the funding yet to do that. Funding,

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we'll get to the money-bit later.

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That's the road block he's running into:

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getting the funding to build the full scale prototype,

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but he's already worked out so many of the minute details

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that it's all about scaling after that,

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which in and of itself is an engineering challenge, yes,

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but not something that's insurmountable. If we can build spaceships in space

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then we can do this.

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Clothing and other products, textiles, anything that you would need,

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3D printing, automated sowing systems.

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Imagine being your own clothing designer.

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Instead of going with the latest fashion trend

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of what somebody else says is popular or just going with the flow,

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imagine taking 3 or 4 designs on your home computer,

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merging them together, resizing it to be exactly your size

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(not everybody is exactly a small, medium or large).

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Make it your dimensions, your requirements,

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and have that locally produced down the street so you can go pick it up.

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Clothing on demand, if you will. We have so many other on-demand things, don't we?

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Movies on demand, we do phone,

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we've got all these little things on demand we can do.

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We can watch a little movie on our iPhone, yay!!

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"I watched Transformers 2 when I wanted to!"

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Why can't you print your own clothes? Be your own designer?

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I mean, yes, you could get stuff from other people if you really like that

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level of fashion; but if you wanted to be your own designer, you could,

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or the own creator of your products. Make your own bowls,

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be a potter, in a way, or you can use a 3D CAD system

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and design your own textiles.

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You see this cute little sculpture here

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was drawn up on a CAD program and completely printed from one block,

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and it ran through the system and created that.

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The geometry that 3D printing can create can be quite complex:

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moving gear systems, a crescent wrench that works

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and is strong enough to actually tighten bolts

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and handle shear stress loads and torque loads just fine.

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Education. It's hard for us to disagree with the fact that

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education today in the 21st century is pretty much more accessible now

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than it has ever been throughout the history of mankind.

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That ties directly in with communication.

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The ability to learn is only limited by your access

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to those technologies that allow you to learn.

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One that I am highly in favor of more than anything else

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is an on-line free platform called KhanAcademy.org.

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How many people here are familiar with Khan Academy?

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All right! That's the biggest group of hands I have seen yet!

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It's an amazing software package that allows you to learn on your own.

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You get to watch a 10-minute video on a subject of your choice

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and then you do a couple of questions and if you pass it,

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congratulations, you graduate to the next level on the tree.

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I'm going to give you an example of how this works in a really fun way.

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I have an 8-year-old daughter.

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When she was 6 we put her on Khan Academy,

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so it really wasn't too long [ago]; she just turned 8.

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This really wasn't too long now; she was about 6.5 at the time.

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We got her on there to do some math, starting with the 1+1 is 2,

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and going through single digit math, double digit math,

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all on her own, self-directed.

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Daddy's orders were "30 minutes, go to Khan Academy, start there and just...

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go for 30 minutes and I'll come and get you when you're done."

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"Ok!" Do dido dido and goes and does it.

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About 20 minutes into it, she comes up to me and says: "Daddy, I don't know a word."

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And I go "What's the word?" And she goes "obtusé"

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"Obtusé? Obtuse!?

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As in acute, obtuse, right angle, trigonometric identities, really?"

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"Yeah." That's exactly what she was doing.

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She had brought herself all the way down to the intro

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to trigonometric identities, angles, right angles;

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she had already passed the lessons on degrees and gradients, and she had moved...

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Did I have anything to do with that? No.

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It's amazing what kids will teach themselves if given the freedom to do so,

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and now the Khan Academy is being used

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in California with the school system (they partner together),

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so that the students are kind of quasi-teachers of themselves.

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The teacher is more like a referee. They just kind of walk around the room

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and all these computers and these kids are talking to each other,

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and they're helping each other and collaborating, and they're cooperating.

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The kids that get it are helping the kids that don't get it

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and things like that, in a very open source, 'Linux' kind of way

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(we'll get to that analogy in a second)

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and it has shown amazing results!

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There are 8th graders doing differential calculus.

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They're in 8th grade!! They don't know they're not supposed to be doing it

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because the teachers are not giving them limits.

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They're not telling them "No, you're not suppose to learn that until high school."

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They're like "Go, whatever! Learn whatever you want. As long as you pass it,

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and you can explain it, and you can help your fellow class mates,

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do it!" And they are.

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There's a lot of social studies out there indicating that

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the current methods of education, this industrial

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factory- line kind of model that we have,

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is actually counter-productive to how the human brain works

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and how we process information and truly learn.

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There's a difference between rote memorization

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and actually learning the foundations of a subject

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so that you can then repeat it over and over again.

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Now we get to Clean Energy Systems.

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An absolute necessity on Mars, they can be achieved in a lot of different ways,

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but here on Earth, we actually have a little bit easier time of it

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because we have more dimensions to our clean energy access.

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You have solar, which most people are aware of.

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Then you have wind. Now when most people think wind power

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they think big giant turbine fans that take up hundreds of acres of land,

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spinning around this way.

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Vertical farms, vertical wind farms (Verfs)

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would be much more efficient. They take much less footprint,

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and if you put magnetic bearings in the bottom,

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that wind vane actually floats, with much less friction

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than using straight-up gears,

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which means you could blow on it and it will spin.

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The cut-in wind speed is drastically lower

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with magnetically-levitating, vertical wind systems.

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So, you can then install all over the place

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things like you see on the right picture

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these vertical wind farms built into the lights,

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so when a car drives by, what does it create?

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A nice, good gust of wind. So, that makes the fan turn,

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which then charges the battery, which then runs the lights.

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Every car that goes by basically keeps the system going.

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If we have a high volume traffic area or just a breeze during the day,

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it'll charge up the battery so it will last all night long.

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The only thing you've got to change is a battery once every decade,

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if you have a good battery. So there you go, great independence,

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or at least one option of it.

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Bloom energy, with fuel cell systems:

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It's an amazing technology that he just came out with recently.

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You can look this up (I have links to it anyway).

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Basically it's a fuel cell system derived out of sand.

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I think we have got enough sand on this planet,

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so there shouldn't be too much of a shortage of being able to build these things.

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That's what makes it so brilliant, is what it's made out of,

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and it's highly efficient.

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Now we get to transportation systems, clean transportation systems

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that are powered by the clean energy that we just reviewed.

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There's more energy systems then just what I've showed. There's geothermal,

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wind, wave and tidal.

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There are different clean energy sources.

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It's not about one holy grail energy,

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cold fusion or something like that

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to power the entire planet with one thing.

480
00:27:55,675 --> 00:27:59,067
Realistically you would want a more dynamic energy grid anyway

481
00:27:59,207 --> 00:28:02,795
that's not so centralized and dependent on just one source.

482
00:28:02,982 --> 00:28:06,131
You would have every building in the city with a little bit of wind

483
00:28:06,271 --> 00:28:08,866
a little bit of solar, geothermal if you can tap it,

484
00:28:09,006 --> 00:28:12,153
a kind of marriage of these different systems

485
00:28:12,293 --> 00:28:17,179
so that you are more robust in your capabilities for power generation.

486
00:28:18,047 --> 00:28:20,889
This is what we do on the ISS or the space shuttle.

487
00:28:21,029 --> 00:28:23,671
The space station doesn't just do solar.

488
00:28:23,811 --> 00:28:26,636
It has fuel cells built into it as well.

489
00:28:26,776 --> 00:28:29,563
Solar is the primary force because it's up in space

490
00:28:29,703 --> 00:28:32,135
and solar access is a lot easier,

491
00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:36,073
but it's not just one thing. You don't single source.

492
00:28:36,721 --> 00:28:39,460
When it comes to transportation there are things like 'ULTRA'

493
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,237
which is a little automated vehicle that doesn't have a driver.

494
00:28:42,377 --> 00:28:44,523
You just hop in and punch where you want to go

495
00:28:44,663 --> 00:28:46,739
and it pulls out. It has GPS and

496
00:28:46,879 --> 00:28:50,190
it has the whole path programmed into it, and it goes.

497
00:28:50,415 --> 00:28:53,107
This exists right now at Heathrow Airport.

498
00:28:53,321 --> 00:28:55,862
They're already running tests on it right now

499
00:28:56,060 --> 00:28:58,352
and it's doing quite well.

500
00:28:59,420 --> 00:29:03,432
Electric cars: I've picked the fancier version to show.

501
00:29:03,718 --> 00:29:07,496
Of course, they don't have to be sports cars like Tesla.

502
00:29:11,123 --> 00:29:14,018
You've got the Nissan Leaf, which has recently come out,

503
00:29:14,158 --> 00:29:16,671
and I'm sure more of the car industry

504
00:29:16,811 --> 00:29:19,894
is going to jump on the electric vehicle bandwagon,

505
00:29:20,636 --> 00:29:24,378
and as the push for that starts to become more serious,

506
00:29:24,518 --> 00:29:27,055
one of the biggest detriments that we have right now

507
00:29:27,195 --> 00:29:30,534
is the infrastructure to recharge the electric cars.

508
00:29:30,674 --> 00:29:33,214
But in the same way that we ended up putting gas stations

509
00:29:33,354 --> 00:29:36,428
all over the planet, you can put recharge centers all over the planet.

510
00:29:36,568 --> 00:29:39,095
You can convert gas stations to recharge centers,

511
00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:42,226
or instead of that, why not battery swap centers,

512
00:29:42,366 --> 00:29:44,933
which is also another technological option that's out there.

513
00:29:45,073 --> 00:29:48,249
You don't recharge your battery while you're sitting there

514
00:29:48,389 --> 00:29:51,260
because that takes several hours. You just pull up,

515
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,523
a machine goes underneath, pulls your battery out the bottom,

516
00:29:54,663 --> 00:29:58,489
takes it off to go to a recharge station built into the center

517
00:29:58,629 --> 00:30:01,125
and it puts a brand new freshly charged one in.

518
00:30:01,265 --> 00:30:03,807
(They're all inter-compatible) and you just take off.

519
00:30:03,947 --> 00:30:06,522
That takes five minutes. By the time you go in, get a soda,

520
00:30:06,662 --> 00:30:09,384
go to the bathroom, grab a candy bar, you come back out

521
00:30:09,524 --> 00:30:13,222
and your car has been switched out, just like at the gas station.

522
00:30:14,996 --> 00:30:18,413
Other transportation options will be fully automated cars

523
00:30:18,553 --> 00:30:20,579
that drive themselves. Stanford University

524
00:30:20,719 --> 00:30:23,175
is working on a vehicle that drives itself.

525
00:30:23,315 --> 00:30:27,408
[It] learns and studies traffic patterns and knows what a red light means,

526
00:30:27,548 --> 00:30:30,212
how 4-way traffic would work at a stop sign,

527
00:30:30,352 --> 00:30:33,478
things that you can program in, test, and fine tune.

528
00:30:33,618 --> 00:30:37,663
Google car is also another one that they're working on.

529
00:30:38,119 --> 00:30:41,228
There are many projects involved with automated vehicles

530
00:30:41,368 --> 00:30:43,341
that can take themselves around.

531
00:30:43,481 --> 00:30:46,487
Imagine you have to go somewhere

532
00:30:46,627 --> 00:30:49,314
and you just hop on your iPhone or smartphone,

533
00:30:49,454 --> 00:30:52,038
and you start punching in the request for a vehicle

534
00:30:52,178 --> 00:30:54,819
and it pulls up on its own. You hop in,

535
00:30:54,959 --> 00:30:58,005
and it takes you where you want to go, and then you hop out.

536
00:30:58,145 --> 00:31:00,145
Transport on demand,

537
00:31:00,696 --> 00:31:02,435
Maglev train systems:

538
00:31:02,575 --> 00:31:05,476
They're well-known. They're just not out there enough.

539
00:31:05,616 --> 00:31:08,525
Asia is really big on them, and they work rather well.

540
00:31:08,665 --> 00:31:10,631
You can clean-energy power these.

541
00:31:10,771 --> 00:31:14,375
Imagine putting mini-vertical wind turbine systems on the train itself,

542
00:31:14,515 --> 00:31:19,022
so as it sped by at 200 mph, you have these wind veins on the top going ballistic

543
00:31:19,162 --> 00:31:23,037
that will basically power all the internal systems of the train as it went,

544
00:31:23,177 --> 00:31:26,340
so then the only thing you really have to power is the Maglev system itself,

545
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,857
which also could be solar, wind and clean-energy powered

546
00:31:29,997 --> 00:31:32,405
in stations along the track.

547
00:31:33,938 --> 00:31:36,827
Communication: It'd be hard pressed for anybody to disagree

548
00:31:36,967 --> 00:31:39,701
with how robust our communication systems are these days.

549
00:31:39,841 --> 00:31:42,762
I don't really have to hammer that point too much.

550
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,348
I'm actually surprised nobody is texting now. [Laughter]

551
00:31:47,813 --> 00:31:50,725
This guy is annoying. [Laughter]

552
00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,107
Let's go hypothetical a little bit, but

553
00:31:55,247 --> 00:31:58,557
the technologies are real. We just covered all the biological

554
00:31:58,697 --> 00:32:02,561
and the quality of life needs that could be met with technical abundance

555
00:32:02,775 --> 00:32:05,915
so that everybody has access to the things

556
00:32:06,055 --> 00:32:09,160
that would make their lives great.

557
00:32:10,759 --> 00:32:14,521
After such abundant solution sets are implemented,

558
00:32:15,578 --> 00:32:19,208
can the current system that we live in handle that?

559
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:24,808
Does our current socio-economic model take into account

560
00:32:24,948 --> 00:32:29,726
our ability to advance to an abundance paradigm?

561
00:32:30,274 --> 00:32:34,547
- Technology contracted towards the system economy, I would say.

562
00:32:34,942 --> 00:32:36,690
Sustainability...

563
00:32:38,027 --> 00:32:40,720
- I would venture to say no.

564
00:32:40,860 --> 00:32:44,704
Our current socio-economic model can't handle this,

565
00:32:44,984 --> 00:32:49,159
and the reason why is because the current socio-economic model

566
00:32:49,299 --> 00:32:52,372
could not have predicted the world that we're in now.

567
00:32:52,625 --> 00:32:54,857
People don't seem to realize that

568
00:32:54,997 --> 00:32:57,427
what we use as our modern form of economics

569
00:32:57,567 --> 00:33:00,197
is basically 200 - 300 years old

570
00:33:00,337 --> 00:33:04,903
and has been twisted and manipulated here and there over time,

571
00:33:05,188 --> 00:33:08,639
but it was designed, the root foundations of it were designed

572
00:33:08,779 --> 00:33:14,803
during a time and age where scarcity and deprivation

573
00:33:14,943 --> 00:33:20,525
and haves and have nots were pretty much the dominant force on the planet.

574
00:33:20,762 --> 00:33:24,998
The only way you can create anything was by people serving people;

575
00:33:25,138 --> 00:33:27,339
other people had to do it.

576
00:33:27,619 --> 00:33:31,181
We can go back thousands of years for the basic root systems

577
00:33:31,321 --> 00:33:35,701
of what markets were, what economics had been turned into.

578
00:33:35,973 --> 00:33:39,659
Even though, by definition, economics is supposed to be household management:

579
00:33:39,799 --> 00:33:43,342
the most efficient, sustainable way to handle

580
00:33:43,545 --> 00:33:46,697
the resources that you have at hand.

581
00:33:47,245 --> 00:33:49,602
It's pretty obvious we are not doing a very good job

582
00:33:49,742 --> 00:33:52,819
of managing our economics when you see the planet start to stress;

583
00:33:52,959 --> 00:33:54,850
you see people start to stress.

584
00:33:54,990 --> 00:33:57,439
There are a lot of issues built into what we have now

585
00:33:57,579 --> 00:34:00,398
versus what we are capable of accomplishing.

586
00:34:01,387 --> 00:34:04,823
We can do a 'now in need' comparison

587
00:34:04,963 --> 00:34:10,406
and just think about these topics in that way.

588
00:34:12,633 --> 00:34:16,821
Right now we have a system based on scarcity, haves versus have nots.

589
00:34:16,961 --> 00:34:21,363
Whether that scarcity is natural or artificial pretty much doesn't matter.

590
00:34:21,556 --> 00:34:24,028
Some people can manufacture scarcity

591
00:34:24,168 --> 00:34:27,336
by limiting the amount of a product in the market

592
00:34:27,476 --> 00:34:30,596
thereby driving its value up artificially;

593
00:34:30,811 --> 00:34:35,129
or a natural disaster could mess with the orange crop,

594
00:34:35,269 --> 00:34:38,146
so the orange value goes up, something like that.

595
00:34:38,366 --> 00:34:41,550
What we need is a system based on technical abundance

596
00:34:41,748 --> 00:34:43,977
that can mitigate a lot of those negatives,

597
00:34:44,117 --> 00:34:47,805
prevent natural disasters from affecting crops

598
00:34:48,030 --> 00:34:50,090
by doing more climate controlled systems.

599
00:34:50,230 --> 00:34:53,038
Things like I'm doing with my buildings where it doesn't matter

600
00:34:53,178 --> 00:34:56,144
if its -10 degrees outside or a 105.

601
00:34:56,370 --> 00:34:59,411
The building will still produce quality food

602
00:34:59,551 --> 00:35:02,369
at a nice temperature of about 72.

603
00:35:04,507 --> 00:35:07,817
What we have is a system based on inefficient human labor

604
00:35:07,957 --> 00:35:10,531
as the main driver of how we get things done:

605
00:35:10,673 --> 00:35:14,930
how people are paid, labor for income, things like that.

606
00:35:15,249 --> 00:35:19,396
What we need is a system based on efficient technical labor

607
00:35:19,586 --> 00:35:21,434
as the main driver,

608
00:35:21,574 --> 00:35:24,723
because it's pretty obvious that the machines we've invented

609
00:35:24,863 --> 00:35:27,345
are way better than us at a lot of things.

610
00:35:27,485 --> 00:35:31,458
People don't put cars together by hand anymore.

611
00:35:31,598 --> 00:35:33,955
Why would you do that? It's not as efficient

612
00:35:34,142 --> 00:35:37,919
and you can be a lot more safe, a lot more accurate with technical systems.

613
00:35:38,059 --> 00:35:40,623
Now, we're talking about dummy systems, we're not talking about

614
00:35:40,763 --> 00:35:44,742
AI, robot, computer, you know cyborg stuff here.

615
00:35:44,882 --> 00:35:47,565
That's a completely different topic.

616
00:35:47,705 --> 00:35:51,458
We're talking about systems that don't think; they just do

617
00:35:51,598 --> 00:35:53,853
a particular assigned task.

618
00:35:55,775 --> 00:35:59,038
What we have now is a system based on cyclical consumption

619
00:35:59,178 --> 00:36:01,483
for constant growth.

620
00:36:01,753 --> 00:36:05,660
What we need is a system based on sustainability and balance.

621
00:36:05,918 --> 00:36:09,027
How many planet Earths do we have?

622
00:36:10,417 --> 00:36:12,747
How can you cyclically consume

623
00:36:12,887 --> 00:36:16,418
and expect constant growth on a finite world?

624
00:36:16,859 --> 00:36:18,676
Either better find another planet

625
00:36:18,816 --> 00:36:22,608
and better find a way to get there really soon, that you can live on,

626
00:36:22,894 --> 00:36:26,025
or you have to change what you're doing

627
00:36:26,165 --> 00:36:29,969
on the one-and-only world you've got at the moment, anyway;

628
00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:33,377
and if we don't, the planet's going to be fine.

629
00:36:33,517 --> 00:36:37,078
It will continue on for another couple of billion years till the sun expands,

630
00:36:37,218 --> 00:36:39,894
sucks in the inner solar system and then goes nova and

631
00:36:40,034 --> 00:36:43,950
blows us all out in a big beautiful explosion of particles.

632
00:36:44,142 --> 00:36:46,078
It's going to happen anyway.

633
00:36:46,339 --> 00:36:49,439
The planet doesn't care, but as George Carlin would say

634
00:36:49,579 --> 00:36:51,563
"We're screwed

635
00:36:51,703 --> 00:36:53,784
if we don't fix it."

636
00:36:58,636 --> 00:37:02,220
We have a system based on ownership and control.

637
00:37:02,851 --> 00:37:07,877
What we need is a system based on usership (I made that one up;

638
00:37:08,102 --> 00:37:11,922
and it's difficult to say, too. I going to change the word. I'll figure it out later.)

639
00:37:12,062 --> 00:37:15,263
and open access. OK?

640
00:37:15,785 --> 00:37:20,137
Where did ownership come from?

641
00:37:20,571 --> 00:37:23,270
It makes sense if you go back several hundred years

642
00:37:23,410 --> 00:37:25,863
to the notion of agriculture.

643
00:37:26,003 --> 00:37:29,530
If you go back even further in time, we didn't have that hiccup.

644
00:37:29,670 --> 00:37:32,173
We didn't have ownership as a primary requirement.

645
00:37:32,313 --> 00:37:35,619
Nomadic hunter-gatherers didn't care about owning anything.

646
00:37:35,759 --> 00:37:39,362
They moved too much. They were in smaller groups that just

647
00:37:39,502 --> 00:37:42,038
went down the river. They didn't stay anywhere. They kind of

648
00:37:42,178 --> 00:37:45,082
did what they had to in that zone when the plants and the foliage...

649
00:37:45,222 --> 00:37:47,495
couldn't eat anything any more. The hunting was gone.

650
00:37:47,635 --> 00:37:50,225
They would move down into a different location,

651
00:37:50,365 --> 00:37:53,090
so they didn't really own the land. They used the land.

652
00:37:53,230 --> 00:37:56,388
They were usership. They just got what they needed.

653
00:37:56,528 --> 00:38:01,220
That was natural abundance: not a whole lot of people, big old giant planet.

654
00:38:01,413 --> 00:38:03,677
It worked out well, in that paradigm,

655
00:38:03,817 --> 00:38:06,963
but as we got more advanced and population began to grow,

656
00:38:07,103 --> 00:38:10,835
and it really grew a lot when we had the agricultural revolution;

657
00:38:10,975 --> 00:38:14,189
now you had land that you had to cultivate.

658
00:38:14,329 --> 00:38:16,384
So, I must put a fence around that land

659
00:38:16,524 --> 00:38:20,535
so I can protect it from somebody else coming in and taking control,

660
00:38:20,675 --> 00:38:24,130
or trying to mess with all the hard work that I put into it.

661
00:38:24,270 --> 00:38:27,293
So, now I've got this land that I've got to protect.

662
00:38:27,433 --> 00:38:30,703
I can't always do it myself, so maybe I should hire a couple of guys

663
00:38:30,843 --> 00:38:34,544
to do it for me, and I'll pay them with food, but I'll get them some clubs.

664
00:38:34,684 --> 00:38:38,181
So, now we have the police and military coming into effect.

665
00:38:38,321 --> 00:38:41,755
If you start looking at how all these systems propagate themselves,

666
00:38:41,895 --> 00:38:44,423
that's where you get the kind of world we have today.

667
00:38:44,563 --> 00:38:46,567
Mine, I own it, I'm going to protect it,

668
00:38:46,707 --> 00:38:49,650
and if you try to take it I'm going to whack you over the head with a club,

669
00:38:49,790 --> 00:38:52,425
or shoot a missile at you, or whatever. Right?

670
00:38:52,565 --> 00:38:54,863
21st century version of club.

671
00:38:55,959 --> 00:38:59,074
Think about this in terms of usership:

672
00:38:59,266 --> 00:39:03,154
Do you want to own a car, do you need to own a car,

673
00:39:03,347 --> 00:39:07,694
or do you just need on-demand access to transportation

674
00:39:07,834 --> 00:39:10,234
to go where you want, when you want?

675
00:39:10,476 --> 00:39:15,658
Anybody who lives in a city that has a good public transportation system,

676
00:39:15,867 --> 00:39:18,790
like Oslo or Stockholm

677
00:39:18,930 --> 00:39:21,628
(where I just recently was a couple of days ago)

678
00:39:21,768 --> 00:39:24,615
there are a lot of people (or Manhattan in New York)

679
00:39:24,755 --> 00:39:27,823
who don't own cars at all, and they haven't owned cars for years.

680
00:39:27,963 --> 00:39:30,986
I've got a friend who lives in New York. He hasn't had a car for over 5 years.

681
00:39:31,126 --> 00:39:34,471
Why? Don't need one! Go anywhere you want, whenever you want,

682
00:39:34,611 --> 00:39:36,669
the mass transit system is pretty good.

683
00:39:36,809 --> 00:39:39,699
It's not as clean or efficient as it could be

684
00:39:39,839 --> 00:39:42,844
if you'd put in Maglev systems, automated vehicles

685
00:39:42,994 --> 00:39:45,022
shared cars, things like that,

686
00:39:45,162 --> 00:39:48,392
but it's not bad. So, people don't need cars.

687
00:39:48,837 --> 00:39:52,521
What you would need a car for is if you're going to a remote area,

688
00:39:52,714 --> 00:39:54,726
but could you not maybe check out a car

689
00:39:54,866 --> 00:39:58,644
like you would check out a book at a library?

690
00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:02,056
Check out a vehicle, use it for when you need it, bring it back.

691
00:40:02,196 --> 00:40:05,623
Have the respect and understanding, the proper educational foundation

692
00:40:05,763 --> 00:40:07,765
to understand that that vehicle is

693
00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:10,785
everybody's to use; just like the library book would be.

694
00:40:10,925 --> 00:40:13,937
Do you grab the library book, go home, and use it in the fireplace?

695
00:40:14,077 --> 00:40:17,116
No! Because you've been taught to respect the book

696
00:40:17,256 --> 00:40:19,806
and other people can read it and enjoy it.

697
00:40:20,020 --> 00:40:23,911
Same idea with the vehicles or other commodities

698
00:40:24,051 --> 00:40:26,452
that we think we need to own.

699
00:40:26,688 --> 00:40:32,698
Statistical fact: A car sits and does nothing for 80% of its life.

700
00:40:33,821 --> 00:40:35,415
It's parked.

701
00:40:35,555 --> 00:40:38,403
If you look at how many hours a day you actually drive

702
00:40:38,543 --> 00:40:41,053
versus how many hours a day it sits,

703
00:40:41,193 --> 00:40:44,979
it's about 20 to 25% of the time that you actually use it.

704
00:40:45,352 --> 00:40:48,211
Yet you spend how much money on a car?

705
00:40:49,059 --> 00:40:53,286
Like in America you are averaging $20,000 - $30,000

706
00:40:53,426 --> 00:40:55,951
for a big complex piece of machinery

707
00:40:56,091 --> 00:40:59,059
that you drive 25% of the time.

708
00:40:59,493 --> 00:41:01,866
Don't you think that's kind of a waste of resources,

709
00:41:02,006 --> 00:41:04,281
a waste of potential for that vehicle?

710
00:41:04,523 --> 00:41:06,676
It's something to think about.

711
00:41:08,350 --> 00:41:10,842
What we have now is a system based on outdated

712
00:41:10,982 --> 00:41:14,490
multi, century-old ideologies and institutions.

713
00:41:16,355 --> 00:41:18,999
What we need is a system based on forward-thinking

714
00:41:19,139 --> 00:41:21,204
adaptation and emergence.

715
00:41:22,106 --> 00:41:26,259
We're always getting more data, more knowledge.

716
00:41:26,876 --> 00:41:28,782
Let's see:

717
00:41:28,922 --> 00:41:31,165
First, the Earth is flat. Yes, it is.

718
00:41:31,305 --> 00:41:35,634
I can see that it's flat. It's flat! You're going to fall off.

719
00:41:35,864 --> 00:41:39,249
You do a little scientific analysis, OK, maybe not so flat.

720
00:41:39,823 --> 00:41:43,587
New data, new way of thinking about how we work in the world,

721
00:41:43,773 --> 00:41:46,229
different behavioral, adjustment shift.

722
00:41:46,582 --> 00:41:49,741
No way we're ever  going to go into space. Are you kidding me?

723
00:41:49,881 --> 00:41:52,123
First of all, that looks flat too.

724
00:41:53,308 --> 00:41:55,607
I mean, you just see stuff move around a little bit; but no,

725
00:41:55,747 --> 00:41:58,203
that's never going to happen. Forget it!

726
00:41:58,343 --> 00:42:01,827
And... touchdown,

727
00:42:02,498 --> 00:42:05,119
Tranquillity Base. Now we are on the Moon.

728
00:42:05,259 --> 00:42:07,633
Now we're in space on a regular basis.

729
00:42:07,858 --> 00:42:11,953
OK. Forget that old data point, absorb the new data point,

730
00:42:12,093 --> 00:42:14,673
change our way of thinking, and move forward.

731
00:42:14,813 --> 00:42:17,662
You could probably go through 100 different scenarios like that

732
00:42:17,802 --> 00:42:20,814
of we thought was one thing and we behaved a certain way,

733
00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:25,131
and then we got new data, we adjusted and we moved on.

734
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:30,595
But you notice how there's one thing that never seems to change

735
00:42:31,004 --> 00:42:35,564
and that's how we socio-economically operate on this planet,

736
00:42:35,829 --> 00:42:38,439
at least for the past 5000 years or so.

737
00:42:38,663 --> 00:42:42,570
It's almost as if money, market, economics

738
00:42:42,710 --> 00:42:45,966
and that methodology of governing resources

739
00:42:46,235 --> 00:42:48,724
has and always will be.

740
00:42:49,291 --> 00:42:54,005
In the beginning God created Heaven, the Earth, banks and the markets.

741
00:42:55,568 --> 00:42:57,211
Right?

742
00:42:57,673 --> 00:42:59,607
Not exactly.

743
00:42:59,994 --> 00:43:03,638
So, if all these other things can adjust and shift,

744
00:43:03,778 --> 00:43:08,160
why can't we develop a better operating system

745
00:43:08,446 --> 00:43:13,371
to adjust and shift to the new capabilities that we have?

746
00:43:15,368 --> 00:43:20,451
A system based on hostile competition, secrecy and differential advantage,

747
00:43:21,257 --> 00:43:25,015
versus a system of cooperation and collaboration of ideas

748
00:43:25,155 --> 00:43:27,425
and information for mutual benefit.

749
00:43:27,835 --> 00:43:31,297
One of the leading examples of what we need

750
00:43:31,437 --> 00:43:34,386
kind of exists today with Linux,

751
00:43:34,962 --> 00:43:38,490
and how that is an open source, interactive platform

752
00:43:38,687 --> 00:43:42,764
that everyone can contribute to as an operating system for your computer,

753
00:43:42,971 --> 00:43:48,551
up to and including inventing software packages that mimic Windows.

754
00:43:49,542 --> 00:43:51,660
So if you really think about it in a way,

755
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,071
the Earth is currently still running Windows 1.0

756
00:43:55,211 --> 00:43:57,337
and we need to upgrade to Linux.

757
00:43:59,943 --> 00:44:02,102
Hostile competition.

758
00:44:03,257 --> 00:44:05,895
I'm OK with competition. I like sports.

759
00:44:06,085 --> 00:44:09,974
I'm still keeping track of the NFL play-offs, (Go Patriots!)

760
00:44:10,313 --> 00:44:11,868
things like that,

761
00:44:12,008 --> 00:44:14,827
but that doesn't kill anybody.

762
00:44:15,314 --> 00:44:18,138
Economic competition can kill people,

763
00:44:18,517 --> 00:44:21,790
and if that isn't very obvious in how

764
00:44:21,930 --> 00:44:24,038
people are starving that shouldn't be starving,

765
00:44:24,178 --> 00:44:26,852
how people are impoverished that shouldn't be impoverished,

766
00:44:26,992 --> 00:44:30,287
how people don't have access to education or energy

767
00:44:30,427 --> 00:44:32,779
or anything to live in a decent quality of life,

768
00:44:32,919 --> 00:44:35,579
I don't know what other indicator you need.

769
00:44:35,783 --> 00:44:38,200
Economic competition can kill people.

770
00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:41,269
Friendly competition, two scientists going after each other:

771
00:44:41,409 --> 00:44:45,321
"I'm going to solve this problem before you. "No you're not!  "All right, fine!"

772
00:44:45,461 --> 00:44:47,523
Go against each other, somebody wins.

773
00:44:47,663 --> 00:44:49,719
All right. One: problem solved.

774
00:44:49,859 --> 00:44:53,865
That's a bonus for mankind whatever that technical problem might have been,

775
00:44:54,005 --> 00:44:58,385
and at the end of the day, they'll probably go have a beer together anyway,

776
00:44:58,589 --> 00:45:00,100
right?

777
00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:02,369
So, that's fine,

778
00:45:02,785 --> 00:45:06,780
but when you live in a world where differential advantage:

779
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:10,598
having control over somebody else by hoarding resources

780
00:45:10,738 --> 00:45:14,078
or monopolizing their extraction or monopolizing their use

781
00:45:14,338 --> 00:45:16,717
or creating a whole bunch of products,

782
00:45:16,927 --> 00:45:21,158
that is a gigantic waste of resources as a way to manipulate the system.

783
00:45:21,411 --> 00:45:24,483
That's not good for us in the long run.

784
00:45:26,701 --> 00:45:28,973
We live now in a system where political opinion

785
00:45:29,113 --> 00:45:31,305
influenced by financial contributions

786
00:45:31,445 --> 00:45:36,244
dictate the ebb and flow of global operations to benefit a select few,

787
00:45:37,186 --> 00:45:40,077
which has kind of been the case throughout the dawn of mankind.

788
00:45:40,217 --> 00:45:42,579
Well, not the dawn of mankind, not the hunter-gatherers, but

789
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:47,681
if you look at monarchies or any kind of top-down system,

790
00:45:47,979 --> 00:45:50,737
it's a scarcity driven environment.

791
00:45:51,297 --> 00:45:53,648
What we need is a scientific method

792
00:45:53,788 --> 00:45:57,768
used in conjunction with human experience and technical foundations

793
00:45:57,908 --> 00:46:00,770
to enhance the lives of all people.

794
00:46:01,368 --> 00:46:03,785
There should be no reason why everybody on the planet

795
00:46:03,925 --> 00:46:06,635
can't start off having a pretty good way of life

796
00:46:06,822 --> 00:46:10,937
which enables them to acquire the educations on what they're passionate about,

797
00:46:11,077 --> 00:46:14,792
whatever that may be, whatever influences them over the course of their life,

798
00:46:15,204 --> 00:46:17,418
to be able to do whatever they want,

799
00:46:17,623 --> 00:46:20,541
positively, to share with other people,

800
00:46:20,681 --> 00:46:24,119
make the world a better place for themselves and those around them,

801
00:46:24,259 --> 00:46:27,142
and never have to worry about the roof over their head

802
00:46:27,282 --> 00:46:29,421
or the food in their stomach.

803
00:46:31,971 --> 00:46:36,242
Mankind needs to move to a new and upgraded global operating system

804
00:46:36,517 --> 00:46:40,210
typically refered to as the Resource-Based Economy,

805
00:46:40,473 --> 00:46:43,914
which is where we use our technical foundations in a way

806
00:46:44,054 --> 00:46:46,230
to better the life of all people.

807
00:46:46,370 --> 00:46:50,126
This includes an educational shift, a value shift,

808
00:46:50,507 --> 00:46:56,002
going from materialistic: "I am special if I own the most stuff",

809
00:46:56,217 --> 00:47:00,304
or "I have the fanciest car" or "the most jewelry",

810
00:47:00,862 --> 00:47:05,500
to a more sustainable platform of value system that says:

811
00:47:05,952 --> 00:47:10,386
"I know that the technical systems that we've invented can benefit everyone.

812
00:47:10,526 --> 00:47:13,959
I can contribute to that or I can benefit from it,

813
00:47:14,148 --> 00:47:17,814
and in the meantime I can create something that somebody else might enjoy,

814
00:47:17,954 --> 00:47:19,784
even if I'm an artist."

815
00:47:19,971 --> 00:47:23,071
If I'm a painter or a musician,

816
00:47:23,285 --> 00:47:26,230
and I'm not so good with technology (I understand how it works,

817
00:47:26,459 --> 00:47:29,419
but I can't really contribute that way), that's OK

818
00:47:29,655 --> 00:47:33,151
because what is going to happen is that scientist

819
00:47:33,291 --> 00:47:36,479
who has a really stressful day trying to solve a problem and doesn't get it

820
00:47:36,619 --> 00:47:40,339
is going to end up going to an art show with his wife, in a couple of days,

821
00:47:40,479 --> 00:47:44,653
and he's going to see a piece of abstract, funky art that the artist created,

822
00:47:44,793 --> 00:47:47,412
and they're going to accidentally see something weird in it

823
00:47:47,552 --> 00:47:49,600
that's going to make them think about work,

824
00:47:49,740 --> 00:47:52,135
and they'll go "Oh crap, why didn't I think about that?"

825
00:47:52,275 --> 00:47:56,006
and the next day they're going to go back to work and end up solving the problem.

826
00:47:56,146 --> 00:47:57,717
Accidental successes:

827
00:47:57,857 --> 00:48:01,374
seeing things in the arts that you might not have otherwise seen;

828
00:48:01,514 --> 00:48:03,701
hearing a piece of music that relaxes you.

829
00:48:03,841 --> 00:48:08,025
All those things add up as a community, as a society,

830
00:48:08,260 --> 00:48:11,017
that work together, where everybody ends up benefiting

831
00:48:11,157 --> 00:48:13,445
out of everybody else's

832
00:48:13,585 --> 00:48:15,176
contributions;

833
00:48:15,371 --> 00:48:18,256
but it is not a direct contribution like...

834
00:48:18,913 --> 00:48:21,902
What's that good old Marxian term?

835
00:48:24,953 --> 00:48:26,700
Forget it.

836
00:48:27,262 --> 00:48:31,403
What? Each to their labor, to their need, or whatever the case may be.

837
00:48:31,543 --> 00:48:33,887
Going back to good old fashion socialism and communism,

838
00:48:34,027 --> 00:48:36,689
failed experiments that couldn't work anyway,

839
00:48:36,829 --> 00:48:40,329
because they were enforced. They weren't evolved.

840
00:48:40,671 --> 00:48:43,139
You see, we're living in a world now where we can,

841
00:48:43,279 --> 00:48:46,686
if we came together in the right kind of way, we could make this stuff happen

842
00:48:46,826 --> 00:48:50,841
because we have technical capabilities to do so. Before, we didn't.

843
00:48:51,044 --> 00:48:54,396
Now we can let the technology do the vast majority of the labor for us,

844
00:48:54,536 --> 00:48:57,138
so that we can actually hang out with each other,

845
00:48:57,352 --> 00:49:00,239
so we can get to know each other better as a species,

846
00:49:00,379 --> 00:49:04,951
and so that we can advance ourselves even beyond just living on this planet.

847
00:49:05,204 --> 00:49:07,184
But remember,

848
00:49:07,915 --> 00:49:12,285
there are no Utopias. This isn't about making everything perfect.

849
00:49:12,425 --> 00:49:14,521
There's no such thing as perfect anyway.

850
00:49:15,745 --> 00:49:18,622
There are always going to be new challenges and new problems

851
00:49:18,762 --> 00:49:20,657
to tackle and to overcome.

852
00:49:20,797 --> 00:49:23,897
There are going to be new tools and capabilities that are required

853
00:49:24,037 --> 00:49:26,225
for new ways of thinking.

854
00:49:26,510 --> 00:49:29,323
For example, try to explain

855
00:49:29,463 --> 00:49:33,985
to a hunter-gatherer from 50,000 years ago, indoor plumbing.

856
00:49:36,387 --> 00:49:38,244
Come on!

857
00:49:38,384 --> 00:49:40,378
You take it for granted today,

858
00:49:40,518 --> 00:49:43,488
but try to explain to them how the plumbing works.

859
00:49:43,628 --> 00:49:45,881
They're going to look at you like "OK, wait.

860
00:49:46,021 --> 00:49:49,132
I can use this thing called a tap,

861
00:49:49,272 --> 00:49:52,993
and I can turn it any time I want and get hot or cold water?

862
00:49:53,133 --> 00:49:55,994
I don't have to get a bucket and go down.. .It's in one place.

863
00:49:56,134 --> 00:50:00,330
What's a building? What's a home?" OK, well now I have to explain what a home is.

864
00:50:00,470 --> 00:50:03,168
"OK, so you've got this home that you live in and it is climate controlled."

865
00:50:03,308 --> 00:50:06,125
"What's climate control? It's cold outside. I have to deal with it."

866
00:50:06,265 --> 00:50:08,643
"No, actually you can regulate the temperature."

867
00:50:08,843 --> 00:50:11,716
You start adding these things up and that

868
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:14,810
hunter-gatherer is going to call you a Utopianist.

869
00:50:15,009 --> 00:50:18,815
"Are you crazy? That's nuts! There is no way we can live in a world like that!

870
00:50:19,134 --> 00:50:22,173
I'm a hunter-gatherer. That's what I do. It's what I've always done.

871
00:50:22,313 --> 00:50:25,837
It's what my granddad did and their granddad did, and all the way down the line.

872
00:50:25,977 --> 00:50:29,031
We just nomadically go everywhere, and that's what we do."

873
00:50:29,171 --> 00:50:31,208
But we didn't stay that way.

874
00:50:31,348 --> 00:50:35,477
It just so happens that in the 21st century our jumps are coming a lot faster.

875
00:50:35,617 --> 00:50:38,703
We don't have to wait 50,000 years to go to the next level.

876
00:50:38,843 --> 00:50:41,634
The next level is right in front of us,

877
00:50:41,774 --> 00:50:44,541
but we have to make it happen.

878
00:50:46,238 --> 00:50:49,078
So, how do we get there from here?

879
00:50:49,218 --> 00:50:52,461
That is a very complicated question,

880
00:50:52,926 --> 00:50:56,114
but it's actually not so bad.

881
00:50:56,678 --> 00:50:59,484
Do what you love to do

882
00:50:59,624 --> 00:51:03,855
with the notion in your head that whatever you are passionate about

883
00:51:03,995 --> 00:51:08,076
is going to help better the lives of all mankind.

884
00:51:08,347 --> 00:51:09,987
Sounds like a big task,

885
00:51:10,127 --> 00:51:12,669
but if you're really passionate about what you're doing,

886
00:51:12,809 --> 00:51:17,760
you will find ways to use your energy and use your knowledge to that end;

887
00:51:18,519 --> 00:51:20,832
and there are a lot of ways you can do it.

888
00:51:21,114 --> 00:51:25,342
You can join groups and organizations like Open Source Ecology,

889
00:51:25,482 --> 00:51:28,235
which is doing amazing work on

890
00:51:28,375 --> 00:51:30,999
how to build a civilization from the ground up,

891
00:51:31,139 --> 00:51:34,207
using very crude, rudimentary technologies;

892
00:51:34,347 --> 00:51:37,272
but it is still an amazing thought concept.

893
00:51:37,655 --> 00:51:41,435
The Zeitgeist Movement, which were the people that allowed me to be here today.

894
00:51:41,575 --> 00:51:43,874
I'm also a member of The Zeitgeist Movement,

895
00:51:44,014 --> 00:51:47,033
but I also advocate any organization that is thinking

896
00:51:47,173 --> 00:51:51,057
towards the betterment of mankind, The Venus Project.

897
00:51:51,197 --> 00:51:54,829
The Venus Project is a technical-oriented group

898
00:51:54,969 --> 00:51:57,861
that talks about a lot of the specific design systems

899
00:51:58,001 --> 00:52:00,081
that might go into hub-cities,

900
00:52:00,221 --> 00:52:02,775
that would be your production hubs around the planet,

901
00:52:02,915 --> 00:52:05,843
robust transport systems, things like that.

902
00:52:06,035 --> 00:52:08,931
The Atlas Initiative Group, which is actually trying to

903
00:52:09,071 --> 00:52:12,425
build a resource-based economic city,

904
00:52:12,703 --> 00:52:14,242
small scale,

905
00:52:14,382 --> 00:52:18,275
that you could visit almost like a theme park or a vacation resort.

906
00:52:18,963 --> 00:52:20,853
They're in early development,

907
00:52:20,993 --> 00:52:23,950
so they're trying to figure out where. They're trying to figure out resources

908
00:52:24,090 --> 00:52:26,991
and funding and where all that is going to come from. They need help,

909
00:52:27,131 --> 00:52:30,549
so if anybody has knowledge they could assist, they could do that;

910
00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:34,142
or you could start or work for CSR companies,

911
00:52:34,282 --> 00:52:37,931
which are corporate social responsibility companies,

912
00:52:38,129 --> 00:52:40,640
social entrepreneurs, people who understand

913
00:52:40,780 --> 00:52:44,366
that we're stuck in the existing model that we're in, yes,

914
00:52:44,506 --> 00:52:47,324
and I'll use what I've got with the intent

915
00:52:47,464 --> 00:52:50,932
of making things better sustainably for mankind.

916
00:52:51,171 --> 00:52:56,225
Not the old 'profit at all cost' mentality;

917
00:52:56,472 --> 00:53:02,135
OK profit, but help people and do good ecologically-sound things

918
00:53:02,275 --> 00:53:05,200
with the company that you create or become a part of.

919
00:53:05,895 --> 00:53:11,354
Igenius.org is an institution in the United Kingdom

920
00:53:11,494 --> 00:53:16,318
that does micro-financing for CSR companies, for social-entrepreneurs.

921
00:53:16,458 --> 00:53:18,826
So, if you don't know what companies out there exist

922
00:53:18,966 --> 00:53:21,353
that's a good place to start to find a whole list

923
00:53:21,493 --> 00:53:26,050
of companies that they've supported, that are in work or in development,

924
00:53:26,292 --> 00:53:29,425
and there are many more options that you can choose from.

925
00:53:29,623 --> 00:53:33,980
It all boils down to doing what you are passionate about

926
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:36,638
in a way that can affect positive change.

927
00:53:36,855 --> 00:53:39,904
Whining and complaining about this system from the comfort of your couch

928
00:53:40,044 --> 00:53:43,397
or from your computer is not going to help the world become a better place.

929
00:53:43,537 --> 00:53:47,332
We need to get offline and get in the real world,

930
00:53:47,696 --> 00:53:50,532
because that's how you're going to affect people's lives.

931
00:53:50,672 --> 00:53:53,057
Even people who are so married to the system

932
00:53:53,197 --> 00:53:56,010
that they can't possibly see a future without it,

933
00:53:56,251 --> 00:53:58,906
the moment you start improving their living conditions

934
00:53:59,046 --> 00:54:02,698
through technical systems that makes their life a little bit easier,

935
00:54:02,838 --> 00:54:06,470
that erodes their dependency on money to survive,

936
00:54:06,610 --> 00:54:09,997
that's when people are going to start seeing the world in a different way,

937
00:54:10,201 --> 00:54:13,663
and it is going to take time, but I'm not doing this for me.

938
00:54:14,243 --> 00:54:17,012
I have an 8-year girl that I'm doing this for.

939
00:54:21,153 --> 00:54:25,908
Global Sustainability is about us getting out there and doing something.

940
00:54:26,921 --> 00:54:31,128
Science, engineering and technology can be used for human concern.

941
00:54:31,316 --> 00:54:35,014
It can be done in a way where the technology doesn't rule us,

942
00:54:35,263 --> 00:54:37,268
it enhances us;

943
00:54:37,465 --> 00:54:39,872
and that's the future that I'm pushing towards.

944
00:54:40,199 --> 00:54:43,402
Thank you! [Applause]

945
00:54:55,020 --> 00:54:59,474
- Thank you!  - Thank you! I'll do some questions.

946
00:55:00,772 --> 00:55:04,162
All right! Who wants to party tonight?  [Laughter]

947
00:55:04,594 --> 00:55:07,418
I've partied in every city... I've tried to experience the night life

948
00:55:07,558 --> 00:55:10,291
in every city I've had the pleasure of visiting, so...

949
00:55:10,431 --> 00:55:13,420
Maybe we could make something of this bottle.

950
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:15,873
All right. Questions?

951
00:55:16,066 --> 00:55:18,940
I'm sure probably a few of you have got some. Yes Sir?

952
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:24,490
- Is the Sulou Foundation, is that a part of this CRS?

953
00:55:24,630 --> 00:55:28,301
- Is what?  - Sulou? Soulos? Foundation.

954
00:55:28,441 --> 00:55:30,886
- I don't know what that is.  -The Solus Foundation?

955
00:55:31,026 --> 00:55:33,505
- I have no... - The Saurus Foundation!  - Oh Saurus!

956
00:55:33,645 --> 00:55:36,298
Is that what you mean, Saurus?  - Yeah, Saulos.

957
00:55:36,513 --> 00:55:38,662
I don't know. That's kind of a slippery slope.

958
00:55:38,802 --> 00:55:41,360
You've got people who think "New World Order, crazy rich people

959
00:55:41,500 --> 00:55:44,441
trying to take over everyone" and then you've got, you know,

960
00:55:44,581 --> 00:55:48,960
"actually is doing some pretty good stuff in the world" people, so...

961
00:55:49,824 --> 00:55:53,975
- What it is talking about is those who rule the world.  - Yeah, well...

962
00:55:54,115 --> 00:55:56,752
- Manipulate it.  - Manipulate the world, yes.

963
00:55:56,892 --> 00:55:59,658
I think those are the people that have played the game the best,

964
00:55:59,798 --> 00:56:02,361
by the rules that are put in front of them.

965
00:56:02,501 --> 00:56:06,588
I don't necessarily consider the wealthy elite to be some nefarious,

966
00:56:06,728 --> 00:56:11,005
evil organization; I don't believe in conspiracy theories and all that stuff.

967
00:56:11,373 --> 00:56:15,350
I believe any and all organizations can be put to good use,

968
00:56:15,490 --> 00:56:19,064
if the right people get involved to make things happen in the right way.

969
00:56:19,358 --> 00:56:21,995
What it basically...

970
00:56:22,135 --> 00:56:24,837
It's kind of a negative word but 'infiltration',

971
00:56:24,977 --> 00:56:27,750
getting in there and changing the way people think

972
00:56:27,890 --> 00:56:30,888
and using those resources and that influence

973
00:56:31,028 --> 00:56:34,693
for the betterment of all mankind, is a direction we should be heading,

974
00:56:34,833 --> 00:56:36,651
and not ostracizing.

975
00:56:36,791 --> 00:56:40,223
- But he is considered as a philanthropist...

976
00:56:40,448 --> 00:56:43,731
- Yes.  - but he is still doing the opposite.

977
00:56:43,871 --> 00:56:45,905
- Yes, I know. So that's OK.

978
00:56:46,045 --> 00:56:50,493
Use the philanthropic aspect to our greatest advance

979
00:56:50,633 --> 00:56:54,804
to do whatever can be done to use that for the betterment of mankind.

980
00:56:54,944 --> 00:56:57,625
Eventually we are going to run to a crossroad:

981
00:56:57,765 --> 00:57:00,405
We either fix what we're doing and become more sustainable

982
00:57:00,545 --> 00:57:03,021
on this planet, or we snuff it. [It's] one or the other.

983
00:57:03,161 --> 00:57:06,931
It's not going to be pretty if we continue doing what we're doing.

984
00:57:07,071 --> 00:57:10,385
- This is just an example.  - Right! I agree.

985
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,062
You!? After class! [Laughter]

986
00:57:16,509 --> 00:57:20,605
Yes?  - By way of transformation of society,

987
00:57:20,745 --> 00:57:24,134
what type of work would still remain?

988
00:57:24,563 --> 00:57:27,941
- What would people do with themselves? Yes, OK.

989
00:57:28,194 --> 00:57:33,333
Try to get out of the box of thinking of the limits of current employment

990
00:57:33,473 --> 00:57:36,228
and think about what future employments might exist

991
00:57:36,368 --> 00:57:38,713
that aren't even there yet. I mean,

992
00:57:38,853 --> 00:57:41,818
go back 50 years and try to explain what IT is.

993
00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:44,305
Information Technology, right?

994
00:57:44,445 --> 00:57:48,026
New jobs will manifest, but think about this:

995
00:57:48,166 --> 00:57:51,462
When you don't have restrictions of a lot of money or political influence

996
00:57:51,602 --> 00:57:54,430
restricting advancements of certain sectors,

997
00:57:54,570 --> 00:57:58,375
you could have underwater cities where you can do all kinds of oceanographic research.

998
00:57:58,515 --> 00:58:02,065
You could have floating cities that go around in the oceans

999
00:58:02,205 --> 00:58:04,537
and do all kinds of research there.

1000
00:58:04,677 --> 00:58:08,210
You could have a much more robust space platform: space stations,

1001
00:58:08,350 --> 00:58:12,300
moon bases, so you could go up and literally live on the moon.

1002
00:58:13,025 --> 00:58:15,668
When you start removing a lot of those restrictions

1003
00:58:15,808 --> 00:58:17,785
the potentials out there are vast,

1004
00:58:17,925 --> 00:58:21,247
but it's also about not having to work 40 hours a week.

1005
00:58:21,387 --> 00:58:24,840
Maybe you work 20 hours a week. Maybe you work 10.

1006
00:58:24,980 --> 00:58:27,432
However, if you think about it this way:

1007
00:58:27,572 --> 00:58:29,680
What would you do with yourself all day?

1008
00:58:29,820 --> 00:58:33,084
How many people do you know go to a job that they probably don't like so much,

1009
00:58:33,224 --> 00:58:35,592
but they go anyway because they have bills to pay;

1010
00:58:35,732 --> 00:58:37,996
and then they start doing their hobby,

1011
00:58:38,136 --> 00:58:41,729
which takes 15-20 hours of their day. They're just at it all the time.

1012
00:58:41,869 --> 00:58:44,753
They just love their hobby, and they're doing their thing.

1013
00:58:44,893 --> 00:58:47,683
It might not have anything to do with their normal job.

1014
00:58:47,823 --> 00:58:50,566
That hobby is what they would do all day.

1015
00:58:50,724 --> 00:58:54,136
You would do your personal passion, whatever that happens to be.

1016
00:58:54,276 --> 00:58:56,940
If that means you work with a group of people

1017
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:01,107
because you are a hydroponics expert and that's what you love,

1018
00:59:01,247 --> 00:59:04,448
and you are interested in that, you'll find groups in your local area

1019
00:59:04,588 --> 00:59:08,088
that are basically the same thing, and you'll work on all the hydroponics systems

1020
00:59:08,228 --> 00:59:11,112
that are in your town or in your local area;

1021
00:59:11,252 --> 00:59:14,433
or you'll work with research and development groups that are trying to

1022
00:59:14,573 --> 00:59:17,971
come up with better ways to do things and invent new ways to do things,

1023
00:59:18,111 --> 00:59:20,789
or if you're an artist or something that's actually really easy.

1024
00:59:20,929 --> 00:59:23,791
I could imagine the arts just going berserk-oid

1025
00:59:23,931 --> 00:59:26,018
in a world where you don't have to worry about

1026
00:59:26,158 --> 00:59:28,338
the roof over your head or the food in your belly.

1027
00:59:28,558 --> 00:59:31,711
No more starving artist, that term will kind of go away.

1028
00:59:31,851 --> 00:59:36,709
But, not so bad, I mean, I'm sure an artist can voluntarily try to starve

1029
00:59:36,849 --> 00:59:39,995
to get the experience. " I'm gonna go live in the woods for 2 weeks

1030
00:59:40,135 --> 00:59:43,787
so I can get dragged down to the depth and find my soul and all of that."

1031
00:59:43,927 --> 00:59:47,111
That's what very accepted artists do! My wife's an artist

1032
00:59:47,251 --> 00:59:49,371
so its a running joke that we have.

1033
00:59:49,511 --> 00:59:55,389
What about all the restaurants, the waiters, the service industry?

1034
00:59:55,939 --> 00:59:59,017
Like waiters? Well yes, I mean there are people who enjoy

1035
00:59:59,157 --> 01:00:01,938
the social interaction of being a waiter or waitress,

1036
01:00:02,078 --> 01:00:04,153
so those jobs, they would be there for them.

1037
01:00:04,293 --> 01:00:07,800
There would be kind of a hybrid system. Some of it could be automated

1038
01:00:07,940 --> 01:00:11,715
like a couple of droids running around for lack of a better term

1039
01:00:11,855 --> 01:00:16,043
in a Star Wars way. I was highly influenced by Star Wars

1040
01:00:16,183 --> 01:00:18,790
as a kid. That's what got me into space exploration,

1041
01:00:18,930 --> 01:00:22,768
this path in the first place, was that film when I was 8 years old.

1042
01:00:23,035 --> 01:00:26,062
So, you could have a hybrid system of some technical help

1043
01:00:26,202 --> 01:00:28,173
and some real people.

1044
01:00:28,702 --> 01:00:33,414
Chefs could, instead of Emeril or whoever, for example

1045
01:00:33,554 --> 01:00:38,085
they would still do their culinary art thing and invent these great practices,

1046
01:00:38,225 --> 01:00:41,649
then you can go into a high tech stage system,

1047
01:00:41,863 --> 01:00:44,655
record how Emeril's cooking everything,

1048
01:00:44,795 --> 01:00:47,308
a computer can record all those movements

1049
01:00:47,448 --> 01:00:52,033
and translate that to a robot, so then a robot halfway around the planet

1050
01:00:52,173 --> 01:00:56,395
could literally make a dish exactly like Emeril does, using the same moves,

1051
01:00:56,535 --> 01:00:58,953
literally carbon copying the entire system.

1052
01:00:59,093 --> 01:01:02,401
So, you can have Emerils all over the place, have that food style.

1053
01:01:02,541 --> 01:01:05,624
You go to the Emeril restaurants. Well, that's not Emeril cooking the food

1054
01:01:05,764 --> 01:01:09,907
in all those restaurants, but in the RBE system, in a way,

1055
01:01:10,047 --> 01:01:12,389
you kind of do have Emerils all over the planet,

1056
01:01:12,529 --> 01:01:14,371
or at least likenesses thereof.

1057
01:01:14,511 --> 01:01:16,704
So, that allows things to be a little more robust

1058
01:01:16,844 --> 01:01:21,282
but people can still pursue their passions, whatever they happen to be.

1059
01:01:24,813 --> 01:01:28,270
- So, what is the biggest obstacle you think

1060
01:01:28,410 --> 01:01:34,353
for making these sketches that you have shown into reality?

1061
01:01:35,612 --> 01:01:41,015
- Getting past the self-imposed roadblocks of what we can and can't do.

1062
01:01:41,471 --> 01:01:44,418
A lot of people just don't think certain advancements

1063
01:01:44,558 --> 01:01:46,555
like this are possible.

1064
01:01:46,695 --> 01:01:49,144
It's also a value set change.

1065
01:01:49,284 --> 01:01:52,267
There's no way you could drop the entire world population

1066
01:01:52,407 --> 01:01:54,955
into a world like this, into the RBE system,

1067
01:01:55,095 --> 01:01:58,108
the Resource-Based Economic system and expect them to function.

1068
01:01:58,248 --> 01:02:00,280
They wouldn't know what to do with themselves.

1069
01:02:00,420 --> 01:02:03,081
That level of automation, that level of freedom

1070
01:02:03,221 --> 01:02:07,223
that thinking of "No, I have to go to work. I have to pay the bills.

1071
01:02:07,363 --> 01:02:10,431
That's what I got to do," although they say they are free.

1072
01:02:10,571 --> 01:02:14,532
There are these rote things that we do all the time;

1073
01:02:14,752 --> 01:02:17,174
you must break through those barriers.

1074
01:02:17,314 --> 01:02:19,711
You don't tell people how to change.

1075
01:02:19,851 --> 01:02:22,967
You make it easier for them to change on their own.

1076
01:02:23,107 --> 01:02:26,760
That's why I'm doing the food system, what I'm doing with my company.

1077
01:02:26,900 --> 01:02:31,498
I'm going to improve the lives of people throughout the world as best I can

1078
01:02:31,711 --> 01:02:37,311
by providing an abundant access to food at a one time cost.

1079
01:02:37,451 --> 01:02:41,348
Because see, I'm not selling food. I'm selling food factories,

1080
01:02:41,488 --> 01:02:44,068
and that's a one-time cost. You buy into it once,

1081
01:02:44,208 --> 01:02:47,430
and now you have access to that building for the rest of your life.

1082
01:02:47,652 --> 01:02:52,866
So, it's a constant food supply, and now you've eroded the need for money for that.

1083
01:02:53,055 --> 01:02:55,974
Then you do that for energy. You do that for transportation.

1084
01:02:56,114 --> 01:02:57,939
You start going down the line.

1085
01:02:58,079 --> 01:03:01,407
People will be like "All right,  I've got all this free money to go on a cruise or go on this,

1086
01:03:01,547 --> 01:03:04,598
because now my house is off the grid so I don't have an electric bill anymore.

1087
01:03:04,738 --> 01:03:06,750
Some organization helped me do that."

1088
01:03:06,890 --> 01:03:10,745
You start doing this all over the place, and then people are going to have

1089
01:03:10,885 --> 01:03:14,348
really fat wallets with a whole lot of money, and not a whole lot of bills;

1090
01:03:14,488 --> 01:03:17,431
and eventually a light bulb is going to go off and be like

1091
01:03:17,571 --> 01:03:19,970
"What do I need all this paper for?"

1092
01:03:20,547 --> 01:03:23,574
I mean "I've got all these technical systems that improved my life,

1093
01:03:23,714 --> 01:03:26,309
so that now I have all this money, and I can do what I like,

1094
01:03:26,449 --> 01:03:29,582
but I don't have all these bills. Then, after that it's just 'whoosh',

1095
01:03:29,722 --> 01:03:31,773
do the rest and it will follow.

1096
01:03:31,913 --> 01:03:35,040
- What about the economic system?

1097
01:03:35,653 --> 01:03:40,997
Because a lot of these things that you're talking about

1098
01:03:42,262 --> 01:03:46,383
today, they are not profitable.

1099
01:03:48,157 --> 01:03:52,825
Nobody wants to invest in it, because

1100
01:03:52,965 --> 01:03:55,619
you don't get profit.

1101
01:03:56,211 --> 01:04:00,820
- You play the game by the rules that exist, for the sake of profit,

1102
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:04,534
but you do it in a way so that your product is sustainable.

1103
01:04:04,797 --> 01:04:06,859
It might have short term rewards, sure,

1104
01:04:06,999 --> 01:04:10,427
but in the long run, you know what the end goal is.

1105
01:04:10,675 --> 01:04:12,864
That's where the erosion of the system,

1106
01:04:13,004 --> 01:04:15,952
the changing of the thinking of people comes into play.

1107
01:04:16,092 --> 01:04:18,917
Yes, your investors are going to get their 7-year ROI,

1108
01:04:19,057 --> 01:04:22,390
their 'Return on Investment', and they're going to be happy and done,

1109
01:04:22,530 --> 01:04:24,834
and you're still going to have your company,

1110
01:04:24,974 --> 01:04:27,201
and doing good and improving the world.

1111
01:04:27,390 --> 01:04:30,114
You're still going to be creating sustainable systems.

1112
01:04:30,254 --> 01:04:32,213
You start getting organizations

1113
01:04:32,353 --> 01:04:35,178
and entities and companies like that all over the place,

1114
01:04:35,387 --> 01:04:39,310
and that's going to start manifesting a serious change within the existing system.

1115
01:04:39,450 --> 01:04:41,898
You have got to use what you're stuck in.

1116
01:04:42,038 --> 01:04:44,779
- But then the economic system today?

1117
01:04:45,045 --> 01:04:46,830
- What about it?

1118
01:04:47,050 --> 01:04:52,533
- Well, it doesn't allow investing in things like sustainable.

1119
01:04:53,099 --> 01:04:56,793
- Yes, it does! There are institutions out there; there are philanthropists

1120
01:04:56,933 --> 01:05:00,408
like you talked about, not necessarily Sauros, but there are others out there.

1121
01:05:00,548 --> 01:05:02,829
There are avenues that you can go through.

1122
01:05:02,969 --> 01:05:05,365
I mean, I wouldn't have been able to start my company

1123
01:05:05,505 --> 01:05:08,522
if there weren't people out there to invest in what I'm doing.

1124
01:05:08,662 --> 01:05:12,970
They exist. You just have to find them. Now the footwork's a little bit harder,

1125
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:16,006
but nobody ever said this was going to be easy.

1126
01:05:17,204 --> 01:05:20,060
- Back to the economic system,

1127
01:05:20,257 --> 01:05:23,801
the interest system. That's the key.

1128
01:05:24,422 --> 01:05:28,002
- It's a broken idea too. An interest manufactured out of nothing

1129
01:05:28,142 --> 01:05:30,904
from a finite money supply is kind of an interesting concept.

1130
01:05:31,044 --> 01:05:34,571
You don't print the interest money. You only print the base of the principal.

1131
01:05:34,899 --> 01:05:37,045
- Making money out of nothing...

1132
01:05:37,185 --> 01:05:39,966
- Yes, that's one of the inherent problems of the system

1133
01:05:40,106 --> 01:05:42,790
but there's nothing you can do about that. It's not about...

1134
01:05:42,930 --> 01:05:45,486
You can't erode the economic model as it sits

1135
01:05:45,626 --> 01:05:47,977
by trying to attack the economic model.

1136
01:05:48,117 --> 01:05:51,181
You make the current system obsolete

1137
01:05:51,321 --> 01:05:54,516
by bringing about a better, more improved system,

1138
01:05:54,732 --> 01:05:58,914
and so you just bypass. Yes, those are issues we're going to have to deal with,

1139
01:05:59,054 --> 01:06:02,131
but if you're creating sustainable systems that help people,

1140
01:06:02,271 --> 01:06:04,173
you end up mitigating that anyway,

1141
01:06:04,313 --> 01:06:07,867
because their dependency on money in the first place goes down.

1142
01:06:08,147 --> 01:06:11,265
Yes?  - Don't you... oh, sorry.

1143
01:06:11,405 --> 01:06:16,345
Don't you think that

1144
01:06:16,485 --> 01:06:20,685
this part that you're describing sounds a little bit like

1145
01:06:22,218 --> 01:06:25,035
c... commu...  - Communism?

1146
01:06:25,175 --> 01:06:28,050
- Yes, communism, because everybody is provided for.

1147
01:06:28,190 --> 01:06:30,852
Nobody should be able to live in a wasteful way;

1148
01:06:30,992 --> 01:06:36,252
if I want to have like a really wasteful car, I shouldn't be able to do that.

1149
01:06:36,472 --> 01:06:38,809
- Well, the first question is: Why do you think you need

1150
01:06:38,949 --> 01:06:41,851
a big wasteful car in the first place? - No, I don't think I need one.

1151
01:06:41,991 --> 01:06:44,733
- I know you don't, but why do people think that?

1152
01:06:44,873 --> 01:06:47,177
There's this marketing and propaganda machine

1153
01:06:47,317 --> 01:06:49,802
that says to have the biggest, the baddest and the best,

1154
01:06:49,942 --> 01:06:52,707
and that's quite wasteful. That's the system that we're in.

1155
01:06:52,847 --> 01:06:56,108
It's not communism though, in a lot of respects.

1156
01:06:56,248 --> 01:07:00,008
First of all, communism was enforced on people.

1157
01:07:00,148 --> 01:07:04,444
This is an organic, bottom-up evolution of people's thinking.

1158
01:07:04,697 --> 01:07:07,633
This is... We have all these technical capabilities.

1159
01:07:07,773 --> 01:07:10,100
That's also something we didn't have back then.

1160
01:07:10,240 --> 01:07:12,686
Communism was very much a military dictatorship

1161
01:07:12,826 --> 01:07:16,151
forced upon the people to say "Everybody's going to have

1162
01:07:16,376 --> 01:07:17,959
a great life."

1163
01:07:18,099 --> 01:07:20,789
You don't tell everyone they're going to have a great life and then

1164
01:07:20,929 --> 01:07:23,216
force everyone to work for each other in that way.

1165
01:07:23,356 --> 01:07:25,364
Obviously it didn't work.

1166
01:07:25,994 --> 01:07:29,288
What you do is you organically, from the bottom-up, say:

1167
01:07:29,428 --> 01:07:32,206
"Here are all of our technical capabilities,

1168
01:07:32,682 --> 01:07:37,276
so many things that never existed to relieve the human labor burden."

1169
01:07:37,416 --> 01:07:40,686
Communism and all those 'isms' still require humans serving humans

1170
01:07:40,826 --> 01:07:42,991
in the most basic of ways.

1171
01:07:43,399 --> 01:07:46,258
We're bypassing all that together with the technical systems

1172
01:07:46,398 --> 01:07:48,569
that we have today in the 21st century.

1173
01:07:48,709 --> 01:07:52,205
You have to remember that a lot of these progresses have really only been

1174
01:07:52,345 --> 01:07:58,176
sustainable like that or robust, in the past 30 to 40 years; about 30,

1175
01:07:58,316 --> 01:08:02,541
when  you've got dexterous robots that can do fine tune picking

1176
01:08:02,681 --> 01:08:04,681
for harvesting plants or what not.

1177
01:08:04,821 --> 01:08:08,963
When you've got much better work... We've gone from Atari

1178
01:08:09,103 --> 01:08:13,603
to XBoxConnect in how long of a period of time?

1179
01:08:13,962 --> 01:08:19,013
So, it's that quantum leap in technical capability that has given us

1180
01:08:19,507 --> 01:08:22,840
a new paradigm that transcends the old 'isms',

1181
01:08:23,027 --> 01:08:25,413
because there's no way they could have envisioned a world

1182
01:08:25,553 --> 01:08:27,508
like what we live in today.

1183
01:08:27,648 --> 01:08:30,564
Who knows what we're going to have 50 years from now?

1184
01:08:30,704 --> 01:08:34,312
What we do have now are sustainable systems in place

1185
01:08:34,452 --> 01:08:37,471
that we could implement if we really wanted to.

1186
01:08:37,693 --> 01:08:40,647
That's why it's different than communism and socialism.

1187
01:08:40,787 --> 01:08:42,589
It's a ground swell up

1188
01:08:42,729 --> 01:08:45,924
of implementing these systems to better the lives of people

1189
01:08:46,064 --> 01:08:49,327
and naturally society will, on its own,

1190
01:08:49,467 --> 01:08:53,691
move towards a better thought process, a more sustainable way of living.

1191
01:08:53,831 --> 01:08:56,552
It's already seen in a lot of the younger generations,

1192
01:08:56,692 --> 01:08:59,945
of the green movements and the ecological thinking, and

1193
01:09:00,085 --> 01:09:02,658
there's something wrong with the way we do things

1194
01:09:02,798 --> 01:09:05,744
and The Occupy Movement and all these different...

1195
01:09:05,964 --> 01:09:09,250
People know something's wrong; a lot of people know something's wrong.

1196
01:09:09,390 --> 01:09:12,220
Not a lot of them have the courage to stand up and yell about it

1197
01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:16,501
because they've got a family to protect or some kind of vested interest,

1198
01:09:16,776 --> 01:09:18,989
but a lot of the younger generations are saying

1199
01:09:19,129 --> 01:09:21,133
"Time out, this is screwed up"

1200
01:09:21,273 --> 01:09:24,005
and so this is the moment in human history where we can

1201
01:09:24,145 --> 01:09:28,152
take all of our bells and whistles and start using them for mutual advantage

1202
01:09:28,292 --> 01:09:31,619
without subjugating somebody else to work for us,

1203
01:09:31,759 --> 01:09:34,104
which is where the old 'isms' fell apart.

1204
01:09:34,244 --> 01:09:37,479
You still had to subjugate somebody else to work for you.

1205
01:09:37,619 --> 01:09:41,240
The only thing you're subjugating in this system is a machine,

1206
01:09:41,380 --> 01:09:43,342
a dumb machine; and

1207
01:09:43,482 --> 01:09:46,154
for example, my hydroponic and my aquaponic system

1208
01:09:46,294 --> 01:09:48,371
doesn't care what you do all day.

1209
01:09:48,581 --> 01:09:51,309
It doesn't care if you play XBox all day long,

1210
01:09:51,449 --> 01:09:53,251
or if you're a rocket scientist.

1211
01:09:53,391 --> 01:09:57,815
It's still going to make food, all the time, every day, no matter what.

1212
01:09:58,208 --> 01:10:03,686
That's different than a person laboring for a product or food,

1213
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:07,808
and now you've got the person with an emotional attachment to that labor

1214
01:10:07,948 --> 01:10:11,383
saying "I don't want all my work to go to some lazy guy!

1215
01:10:11,523 --> 01:10:14,768
I want it to go to someone who is deserving."

1216
01:10:15,679 --> 01:10:17,856
The paradigm shifts when it's

1217
01:10:17,996 --> 01:10:21,394
a tech doing the work that doesn't have that emotional baggage,

1218
01:10:21,534 --> 01:10:23,715
and that actually frees people to be

1219
01:10:23,855 --> 01:10:27,014
a little more interactive with each other in the process.

1220
01:10:27,988 --> 01:10:31,647
Yes?  - Do you have any recommendations in terms of

1221
01:10:31,787 --> 01:10:34,596
how you should bring up children

1222
01:10:34,736 --> 01:10:38,061
to understand these predicaments and problems?

1223
01:10:40,101 --> 01:10:42,329
I am a strong advocate of home schooling

1224
01:10:42,469 --> 01:10:44,630
because that's what I do with my child.

1225
01:10:44,770 --> 01:10:47,744
Because I think the industrial model of

1226
01:10:47,980 --> 01:10:51,766
children being a cog in the wheel that are just supposed to obey the teacher,

1227
01:10:51,906 --> 01:10:54,796
obey authority and don't question me,

1228
01:10:54,936 --> 01:10:57,428
and when you're done, graduate and go get a job,

1229
01:10:57,769 --> 01:11:01,407
that's really the process that we have today.

1230
01:11:02,501 --> 01:11:05,317
Home schooling and there are other schooling institutions

1231
01:11:05,457 --> 01:11:07,815
that are more organic than that industrial method

1232
01:11:07,955 --> 01:11:10,349
and those can be researched and found out.

1233
01:11:10,489 --> 01:11:12,533
That would be a way to bring up children:

1234
01:11:12,673 --> 01:11:15,118
to think about the world in a more critical way,

1235
01:11:15,258 --> 01:11:18,192
to question authority, to question things,

1236
01:11:18,332 --> 01:11:22,064
does E = mc2 still hold true?

1237
01:11:22,278 --> 01:11:24,492
We do that in the sciences all the time.

1238
01:11:24,632 --> 01:11:27,606
Nothing always just stays exactly the same;

1239
01:11:27,746 --> 01:11:30,398
we revisit these all the time

1240
01:11:30,538 --> 01:11:32,686
and try to see if we can break them,

1241
01:11:32,826 --> 01:11:36,351
and if it still holds true, OK, cool, and then we move forward.

1242
01:11:36,491 --> 01:11:39,680
Does Newtonian Mechanics still work? No, not on the quantum level.

1243
01:11:39,820 --> 01:11:42,388
OK, now we have to come up with Quantum Mechanics.

1244
01:11:42,528 --> 01:11:46,254
So, we have to challenge ourselves to invent a new paradigm.

1245
01:11:46,717 --> 01:11:50,293
It's that critical thinking process that I think a lot of people have lost,

1246
01:11:50,433 --> 01:11:54,860
because they're regimented into this little kind of like 'robot of the system' way.

1247
01:11:55,000 --> 01:11:58,121
The people have become the robots, in some respects.

1248
01:11:58,319 --> 01:12:01,989
So, if you can educate children to be more dynamic,

1249
01:12:02,177 --> 01:12:06,288
to have better critical thinking skills,

1250
01:12:06,428 --> 01:12:09,679
to question things, to learn how to research

1251
01:12:09,898 --> 01:12:13,013
and don't just take for granted what somebody says.

1252
01:12:13,310 --> 01:12:16,373
I'll tell my daughter something that I know is wrong,

1253
01:12:16,684 --> 01:12:19,499
and then she'll be like "OK" and I go "Wait!

1254
01:12:19,639 --> 01:12:22,380
You just think because I said it, that it's true?"

1255
01:12:22,749 --> 01:12:25,730
And she's like "Yeah, you're my dad!" I go "That doesn't matter.

1256
01:12:25,870 --> 01:12:29,310
Just because I'm the authority figure doesn't necessarily mean

1257
01:12:29,450 --> 01:12:32,789
that I'm giving you the right information. Go look it up.

1258
01:12:32,929 --> 01:12:35,250
Go to Google, go to a library." Well,

1259
01:12:35,390 --> 01:12:37,730
kind of hard for an 8-year-old to go to the library, but ...

1260
01:12:37,870 --> 01:12:40,398
"Go research it.  Am I right?

1261
01:12:40,538 --> 01:12:43,584
Tell me if I'm right, and if I'm wrong, tell me I'm wrong!

1262
01:12:43,724 --> 01:12:46,448
And show me!" "No dad, this..."

1263
01:12:46,588 --> 01:12:49,448
She's getting a lot better at that now, by the way [laughing],

1264
01:12:49,711 --> 01:12:52,525
which is good! It gets her in a different state of mind.

1265
01:12:52,665 --> 01:12:55,113
And then, of course, there's the obvious ones of recycle,

1266
01:12:55,253 --> 01:12:58,980
reuse, reduce waste; how you live your life at home is how your children

1267
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,244
are going to end up living their lives in the future, anyway.

1268
01:13:02,384 --> 01:13:04,773
You get a lot of those base practices built in

1269
01:13:04,913 --> 01:13:07,552
right off the get-go, and that's how it will happen.

1270
01:13:07,692 --> 01:13:12,183
Yes?  - So you have this term, this 'getting off the grid' term,

1271
01:13:12,323 --> 01:13:16,502
is that something that you've thought about? It wasn't on the list of 'to do's' but...

1272
01:13:16,642 --> 01:13:19,631
Right, yes,

1273
01:13:19,837 --> 01:13:22,764
I'm going to get off the grid, absolutely.

1274
01:13:22,904 --> 01:13:25,504
I'm going to do everything I can to build my own home,

1275
01:13:25,644 --> 01:13:27,688
get it solar, wind, water collector,

1276
01:13:27,828 --> 01:13:29,987
artificial aquifer 10-feet under the ground

1277
01:13:30,127 --> 01:13:32,452
to maintain a stable temperature for the water and

1278
01:13:32,592 --> 01:13:34,894
yatayatayata, I'm going to do everything I can.

1279
01:13:35,034 --> 01:13:38,043
The problem in today's world is that it costs a lot of money to do it

1280
01:13:38,183 --> 01:13:39,768
and I know that,

1281
01:13:39,908 --> 01:13:43,075
so I'm going to use my company and what I'm doing to get myself off the grid,

1282
01:13:43,215 --> 01:13:45,245
and then I'm going to start an institution

1283
01:13:45,385 --> 01:13:48,030
that's going to be designed to help other people get off the grid, and

1284
01:13:48,170 --> 01:13:51,135
I'm going to use the profits from my company to help others get off the grid;

1285
01:13:51,275 --> 01:13:54,404
and hopefully, I can work with other groups to do the same thing:

1286
01:13:54,544 --> 01:14:00,568
to get them solar and winded and get their electric bill squared away,

1287
01:14:00,708 --> 01:14:03,814
whatever I can legally do because, unfortunately,

1288
01:14:03,954 --> 01:14:07,144
a lot of governments are starting to put heavy restrictions

1289
01:14:07,284 --> 01:14:09,901
on how 'off the grid' somebody can get.

1290
01:14:10,041 --> 01:14:13,452
[sarcastically] Thank you power companies with big budgets and lobbying firms

1291
01:14:13,592 --> 01:14:17,868
that get into the back pockets of the politicians. The system is broken,

1292
01:14:18,008 --> 01:14:20,579
but we can get around that.

1293
01:14:20,719 --> 01:14:22,512
- Why is it broken?

1294
01:14:22,652 --> 01:14:26,746
- For what I just said. The influences of power of money can affect the politicians

1295
01:14:26,886 --> 01:14:29,218
that are supposed to be making the rules for our betterment.

1296
01:14:29,358 --> 01:14:32,617
- Money, and what's money, today?

1297
01:14:32,757 --> 01:14:34,957
- It's an amorphous blob of nonsense.

1298
01:14:35,097 --> 01:14:37,012
[laughter]

1299
01:14:37,152 --> 01:14:39,145
- No, it's influence, interests.

1300
01:14:39,285 --> 01:14:43,370
That's a key thing here.  It's a key thing, the interests.

1301
01:14:43,510 --> 01:14:46,082
- True.  - That's making money out of nothing.

1302
01:14:46,565 --> 01:14:51,114
That's a very old tradition and it's outdated.

1303
01:14:51,254 --> 01:14:53,459
- Agree. The whole system does.

1304
01:14:53,599 --> 01:14:58,675
But if you abandon the interest in the money system,

1305
01:14:58,815 --> 01:15:03,100
it would be much easier to implement these ideas,

1306
01:15:03,386 --> 01:15:05,611
today! To start today,

1307
01:15:05,751 --> 01:15:09,389
because this might take 50 years.

1308
01:15:09,697 --> 01:15:13,824
- As soon as you write up a paper on exactly how we can do that, I'll read it.

1309
01:15:14,050 --> 01:15:18,511
- Yes you can do it, if you abandon the interest from the money system.

1310
01:15:18,703 --> 01:15:22,571
- Right. Any other questions? Yes?

1311
01:15:22,779 --> 01:15:25,202
- ...but this is important!

1312
01:15:25,558 --> 01:15:29,665
- ... start this model for aquaponics, hydroponics

1313
01:15:29,805 --> 01:15:31,843
- Say again, I'm sorry, I missed the beginning.

1314
01:15:31,983 --> 01:15:35,785
- How long did it take you to arrive at this final model?

1315
01:15:35,925 --> 01:15:38,009
- And energy efficiency and...  - Oh...

1316
01:15:38,149 --> 01:15:40,617
I'm still in phase 1 operations right now.

1317
01:15:40,757 --> 01:15:44,019
I literally just put everything together and got all the parts 3 days before

1318
01:15:44,159 --> 01:15:47,441
I left on this trip. The company's brand new. I've just started it.

1319
01:15:47,581 --> 01:15:50,523
I've already done a year's worth of research

1320
01:15:50,663 --> 01:15:53,529
and writing up, doing schematics and drawings and things like that,

1321
01:15:53,669 --> 01:15:56,668
as far as blue printing is concerned, the engineering side of it.

1322
01:15:56,808 --> 01:16:00,975
Now it's the proof and development phase, the research and development phase.

1323
01:16:01,706 --> 01:16:04,913
Right now I'm developing a low power, grow light system,

1324
01:16:05,053 --> 01:16:08,646
because you can't be off the grid. You can't be solar and wind powered

1325
01:16:08,786 --> 01:16:12,675
if you have 200 growth chambers at 250 watt bulbs a piece.

1326
01:16:12,815 --> 01:16:16,499
That would be highly energy intensive. You can't do it very well,

1327
01:16:16,639 --> 01:16:19,457
so I've developed a low-powered lighting system that I'm testing,

1328
01:16:19,597 --> 01:16:22,882
and then that should be done in about a month or 2, and I'll know its viability.

1329
01:16:23,022 --> 01:16:25,743
Then I go to phase 2 which is prototype development.

1330
01:16:25,883 --> 01:16:29,581
That's actually not that difficult since all these technical systems exist,

1331
01:16:29,721 --> 01:16:32,546
we're just systems engineering. We are putting them together in a way,

1332
01:16:32,686 --> 01:16:36,354
setting up the programs and getting all the bells and whistles squared away.

1333
01:16:36,494 --> 01:16:39,767
Then when that's done, we can be off and running on production scale,

1334
01:16:39,907 --> 01:16:44,255
so I'm looking at 12 months or less to have these systems ready to go,.

1335
01:16:44,395 --> 01:16:47,485
and then we construct it on demand. It's not  like I'm going to have a warehouse

1336
01:16:47,625 --> 01:16:50,286
of a bunch of parts. When a country wants something

1337
01:16:50,426 --> 01:16:53,228
I'll order it, then we'll ship it there and build it onsite.

1338
01:16:53,368 --> 01:16:55,966
Things like that, that's how it's going to work.

1339
01:16:56,726 --> 01:16:59,190
I don't think this thing likes me. [laughter]

1340
01:16:59,330 --> 01:17:02,053
Off. Now that will turn off the lights. Forget it. Anyway...

1341
01:17:02,466 --> 01:17:05,763
Yes?  - I am curious about the 3D printing machine.

1342
01:17:05,903 --> 01:17:08,824
- OK.  - What kind of materials would the machine be using

1343
01:17:08,964 --> 01:17:11,659
in order to create items and buildings and so on?

1344
01:17:11,799 --> 01:17:14,940
- The most recent thing that I have seen (I'm not a 3D printing expert),

1345
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:17,164
recently as in a couple of days ago,

1346
01:17:17,304 --> 01:17:21,218
was a news video on YouTube (I think you can look it up, actually)

1347
01:17:21,358 --> 01:17:24,067
where they use a powder resin; it's a powder,

1348
01:17:24,207 --> 01:17:27,307
and they literally... It's almost... think of it like ink jet.

1349
01:17:27,447 --> 01:17:32,266
They use this powder resin to create a crescent wrench.

1350
01:17:32,656 --> 01:17:36,051
They scan the crescent wrench into the computer,

1351
01:17:36,191 --> 01:17:39,062
and then it goes and prints it with the working wheel and everything,

1352
01:17:39,202 --> 01:17:42,194
and he uses it and turns a bolt, but it's made out of powder resin.

1353
01:17:42,444 --> 01:17:45,261
I don't know exactly what that's made of, or how that works, but

1354
01:17:45,401 --> 01:17:48,637
you could also carve stuff, using a 3D lathe,

1355
01:17:48,854 --> 01:17:52,353
that will move the objects around and can create a part,

1356
01:17:52,493 --> 01:17:54,908
or something to that effect out of a smaller system.

1357
01:17:55,048 --> 01:17:59,174
Then there's the RepRap. That's another [3D printer]. You can look it up,

1358
01:17:59,314 --> 01:18:02,406
and that's a system that you can actually

1359
01:18:02,546 --> 01:18:05,253
use a RepRap to build another RepRap,

1360
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:08,983
and then it can build other parts, so it's like a self-replicating device

1361
01:18:09,123 --> 01:18:11,283
where you can build other parts, and they're small

1362
01:18:11,423 --> 01:18:14,170
and they can go in your house, and you can make simple things out of that.

1363
01:18:14,310 --> 01:18:17,061
I am not a 3D printing expert but I know it's a technology

1364
01:18:17,201 --> 01:18:19,871
that is advancing tremendously fast.

1365
01:18:20,011 --> 01:18:23,118
Yes?  - I think it's actually just a regular plaster

1366
01:18:23,258 --> 01:18:29,118
and they just coat it with a hardened glue.

1367
01:18:29,258 --> 01:18:31,258
- It's something to research.

1368
01:18:31,398 --> 01:18:34,305
[imperceptible speech]

1369
01:18:37,273 --> 01:18:42,036
...most 3D printers use the same substance that you have labeled once.

1370
01:18:42,308 --> 01:18:47,313
[imperceptible speech]

1371
01:18:47,536 --> 01:18:49,567
But I have a question, as well,

1372
01:18:49,707 --> 01:18:53,112
going back to the idea of how to get there from here,

1373
01:18:53,716 --> 01:18:56,897
how do you deal with the issue of land ownership?

1374
01:18:57,037 --> 01:19:00,079
I mean just the concept of it. I mean I see how you can

1375
01:19:00,283 --> 01:19:03,985
take a few steps right now and sort of make a city,

1376
01:19:04,125 --> 01:19:06,833
and then just, in a way, compete, and then say:

1377
01:19:06,973 --> 01:19:10,808
"Well, do you want to live in that city with pollution and the way it is,

1378
01:19:10,948 --> 01:19:12,963
or you want to live in a super modern city

1379
01:19:13,103 --> 01:19:15,076
of the future where everybody is happy?"

1380
01:19:15,216 --> 01:19:18,771
I think that would certainly expand the project,

1381
01:19:18,911 --> 01:19:21,384
but at one point you shouldn't have to say:

1382
01:19:21,524 --> 01:19:25,425
"OK, private ownership or state ownership of land

1383
01:19:25,565 --> 01:19:27,779
...needs to stop."

1384
01:19:27,919 --> 01:19:30,617
- And that will happen. I can't predict the future, but I think

1385
01:19:30,757 --> 01:19:33,204
the public will be the driver of that one.

1386
01:19:33,344 --> 01:19:35,976
When they start seeing how life can be better,

1387
01:19:36,116 --> 01:19:38,646
with a less-ownership model where

1388
01:19:38,786 --> 01:19:41,511
they've got to control and own everything,

1389
01:19:41,651 --> 01:19:45,263
then you're going to look at a scenario where people might say "You know what?

1390
01:19:46,044 --> 01:19:48,129
Go ahead and let's use my land for that.

1391
01:19:48,269 --> 01:19:50,738
Let's put some aquaponic farms here, or

1392
01:19:50,878 --> 01:19:53,006
let's put a little solar collector facility over there

1393
01:19:53,146 --> 01:19:55,178
because I know that's going to feed me. That's going to help me."

1394
01:19:55,318 --> 01:19:57,406
It's a mindset change.

1395
01:19:57,546 --> 01:19:59,670
You can't force that on people

1396
01:19:59,810 --> 01:20:02,597
because they're going to resist being told what to do,

1397
01:20:02,737 --> 01:20:06,036
but if you can get those cities built, and you can start helping people

1398
01:20:06,176 --> 01:20:10,594
live a different way, you will change the way they think about themselves

1399
01:20:10,734 --> 01:20:13,357
and the world, and how they interact with others;

1400
01:20:13,497 --> 01:20:15,518
but "Rome wasn't built in a day".

1401
01:20:15,658 --> 01:20:19,221
It's really going to take the public to swell up and say "You know what?

1402
01:20:19,361 --> 01:20:21,420
We need to change how we do things."

1403
01:20:21,560 --> 01:20:24,247
Private property might be the last thing to go.

1404
01:20:24,387 --> 01:20:27,660
It might go really early.  I have no idea. I can't predict that.

1405
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:31,967
What I do know is we have the technical systems today to save a lot of lives,

1406
01:20:32,188 --> 01:20:34,374
and to make life better for a lot of people.

1407
01:20:34,514 --> 01:20:36,632
That should be our initial focus,

1408
01:20:36,772 --> 01:20:40,601
and then as we proceed further, we'll tackle other hurdles as they come;

1409
01:20:40,741 --> 01:20:43,574
but if we try to think about the big picture too much,

1410
01:20:43,714 --> 01:20:46,129
it can seem rather daunting to try and figure out

1411
01:20:46,269 --> 01:20:49,473
how you're going to change the entire planet and every human being:

1412
01:20:49,613 --> 01:20:52,168
the wealthy elites down to the corrupt politicians,

1413
01:20:52,308 --> 01:20:57,287
down to the drug war lords, down to the poor person in the street.

1414
01:20:57,427 --> 01:21:01,627
That becomes daunting. Try not to do that. You'll drive yourself nuts.

1415
01:21:01,767 --> 01:21:03,585
[laughing]

1416
01:21:04,407 --> 01:21:07,792
OK. I think we've been here a while. [laughters]

1417
01:21:08,161 --> 01:21:11,443
I really want to thank everybody for your time. Thank you for coming out.

1418
01:21:11,583 --> 01:21:14,872
If you want the source sheet for some of the information here

1419
01:21:15,012 --> 01:21:18,091
come down to the front, and you can fill out a pad

1420
01:21:18,231 --> 01:21:21,014
with your email address, and I will send it to everybody. Thank you.

1421
01:21:21,254 --> 01:21:24,222
[Applause]