Calling For Submissions To Develop Techism Theory And Guidelines

So, in order to replace capitalism as the main method of organizing materials-to-demand and labor-to-demand and as a (rather poor) driver of new technology implementation, it's necessary to develop a comprehensive set of guidelines to use in the implementation of Techism.

How do we replace money with technology - and eliminate the win/lose environment created by capitalism?

In order to succeed, Techism needs to:

1. Preserve a basic quality of life for all human beings.
2. Ensure survival of the species.
3. Preserve the natural environment.
4. Provide an efficient means of driving technology improvement, as well as advances in the arts, health, and humanities.
5. Provide an efficient means of distributing resources to meet physical needs.
6. Provide a path for the expansion of our biosphere throughout the rest of the Solar System and galaxy to ensure the long-term survival of life.
7. Allow for a higher quality of life for individuals who contribute more.
8. Foster creativity.
9. Provide a safe means of conflict resolution.

This seems to me a minimum of basic goals. To me, these are all equally important.  They are not numbered in any order of priority, but in the order that they occur to me.

So who has ideas to contribute toward using technology to implement any of the nine goals of Techism?

Dan

NASA Uses Gesture-Controlled 3-D CAD Modeling And Materials Printer To Make Rocket (Video)

Wow.

Replicators are almost here, Number One.

Dan

Planetary Resources - the budding asteroid mining consortium that portends a new era of unlimited resources to come

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Resources

This consortium was just announced yesterday - but they're in the forefront of bringing us beyond the limits of global geography and raw materials constrictions. In time, there will be no need to keep resources away from any human being.

• Automation will banish the costs of low-skilled labor and free human beings up for creative work.
• Cheaper and better access to space will make space mining, farming, energy production, and colonization a way around the limits of space and arable land on Earth.
• Electronic, and eventually quantum communications technologies will allow human communication and connection across vast distances within the solar system.
• Artificial Intelligence will allow the production of goods and services to continually evolve for better sustainability and recyclability.
• Collective decision-making will be enhanced with technology, eventually bypassing the top-down autocratic systems of the past and making greed and hoarding nearly impossible.
• Cheap and ubiquitous access to mass publication and surveillance platforms will render privacy obsolete - but it will also do so for secrecy - meaning that criminal organizations, commercial operations, and governmental institutions will find it increasingly hard to keep their activities secret. This will make corruption unsustainable.
• All of the above will eventually eliminate the need for money. Demand for goods and services will be trackedthrough their life-cycles by artificial intelligence and no one will have to do without the basic necessities of life, which will greatly reduce the impetus for corrupt actions. Creativity and innovation will become the new hallmark of societal status.

The Universe is waiting - for us to grow up. We're almost there...almost...

Dan