Comments on: The last greatest hope: technology

By: john whiteman

john whiteman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:57:58 +0000

“This is easily disproven, take for example the Soviet Union which had the technology to put people into space, yet they couldnâ€™t solve the simplest of tasks, delivering food for they own people in countries that were previously self sufficient.”

Not only is your argument faulty but also ingeniousness. The Soviet Union could not feed some of its people due to its misconceived arms race with the United States, nothing more and nothing less. Please stop comparing true Communism and Socialism to the Soviet Union, they have never existed in our collective history. It not only makes you look ignorant but also uneducated.

By: alice

alice — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:11:49 +0000

Netflix is good, too.

I put my movie in the mail box today and I get a notification the next day that they have received it and my next movie is on the way.

Or maybe it’s the post office that deserves the credit?

Nahhhh!

By: aron

aron — Sun, 24 May 2009 13:46:02 +0000

In my opinion the main fallacy in the ideology of the Venus project is that having a sophisticated enough level of technology shortages and poverty would end without any motivation or incentives.
This is easily disproven, take for example the Soviet Union which had the technology to put people into space, yet they couldn’t solve the simplest of tasks, delivering food for they own people in countries that were previously self sufficient.

By: christian

christian — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:59:49 +0000

This is ironic, as I’ve just finished reading your article (and many of the comments) on the Venus project.
What if every industry was this efficient/automated?
I think the feature on the Venus project and the end of Zeitgeist Addendum is to short, and shows only general concepts without spending time going in to details of individual topics that would counter peoples (based on their information gather so far) opinions of the resource based economy.
I have watched and listened to may lectures by Jaque Fresco, and the most consistent thing I see from him is his use of creative critical thinking. Together with his fundamental realization of the interconnected and inpermanent nature of all things.