Note that they use in the title two words that Fresco refutes: utopia, futurist. For how else could they word it?
I realized this kind of thing, and its necessity, in '95; I was writing a treatise on Fuxionality that I was conceiving. The idea of a Resource-based Economy wasn't new, but I thought it was a lost concept. I encountered The Culture a couple/few years later, and Fresco some time this century.
I would say their best chance at getting a prototype city going is in Oregon. A year ago I would have said maybe it would catch on in 50 years. After seeing half the country support Donald Trump I would say we are back to Gene Roddenberry's estimate of the 24th century. If you think these rednecks are going to let go of their grip on their money you're out of touch with current humanity.
Republicans would rather pay a dollar less on their yearly insurance tax even if it meant 10,000 poor black people die or go bankrupt from not being able to pay for an emergency room visit. It's disgusting.
I think technological development will supercede everything. It always has. Things seem real bad right now because there's a lot of growing pains, and as you've mentioned geezer aches, around that development.
> I would say their best chance at getting a prototype city going is in Oregon. A year ago I would have said maybe it would catch on in 50 years. After seeing half the country support Donald Trump I would say we are back to Gene Roddenberry's estimate of the 24th century. If you think these rednecks are going to let go of their grip on their money you're out of touch with current humanity.
> Republicans would rather pay a dollar less on their yearly insurance tax even if it meant 10,000 poor black people die or go bankrupt from not being able to pay for an emergency room visit. It's disgusting.
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