Some folks seem to be projecting a number of suggestions that are not a part of the movement.

I don't know if it's due to not yet being able to see the really wide view of this movement's goals and approach or if it's leftover concerns about the far too numerous conspiracy theories out there, but I'll do what I can to try and clear up some of the confusion here. Technology: Technology is just a set of advanced tools that are now at a point where they can do much more for us as a species than just replace workers and mix concrete. Jacque, as the long time designer of TVP (over 60 years), is the person most responsible for the movement's focus on technology as a way for us to move forward into the future. His use of the term 'technology' is not limited to factory automation, computer controlled transportation and other things of that magnitude. To him, a simple comb or brush is a 'technology' to be used to 'fix' mangled hair. In his view, anything that helps make something easier for us is viewed as technology. He is also convinced that, although technology is always improving, we humans have already developed all of the tech we need to design, build and enjoy the world he has envisioned for us in his TVP concepts. Of course, each step we take towards building that world will show us additional ways to continually improve on his initial designs. Yes, his materials also include some things that do not yet exist (laser employing robotic vehicles that fuse together existing earth into roads, for example), but we already have the underlying tech to create them. It's just that no one has spent the money to put the parts together yet.

The Inevitable Crash: It's painfully obvious that today's monetary-based approach to controlling/distributing the planet's resources worked reasonably well back when there weren't anywhere near as many people on the planet than we have now, but those days are severely numbered as a direct result of technological advancement in the form of automation. The concept of automation was first used to replace all of the agricultural workers over 200 hundred years ago (the cotton gin is a perfect example of this). Up to that point, agriculture had been the most popular 'career', supplying over 60% of the more advanced nations workers with jobs. As these workers were displaced, more and more of them turned to factory work and the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. Later, automation was introduced into this manufacturing sector and began displacing those workers. We're rapidly approaching the inevitable end of that process now. Unfortunately, many of those displaced workers ended up moving into and expanding what is now known as the Age Of Information. As some of you may already be aware, many of these jobs are being rapidly outsourced from their countries of origin to workers in less financially advanced countries. In addition, more and more of these jobs are also beginning to see automation displacing real workers (when was the last time a human answered a phone when you call a business?). What you may not be aware of is that this outsourcing shift is primarily being done to prop up the ability of these less financially secure countries so they can buy more 'stuff' in order to perpetuate the rapidly failing worldwide monetary system. So, the originating countries are taking these jobs away from their own people in order to give slightly larger paychecks to other people so they can buy more junk. It's a

truly sick symptom of a crashing worldwide economy and everyone on all sides are caught in the middle. All currencies throughout the world are now thoroughly intertwined due to the recent push for globalization, so a severe crash within one nation such as the US will most definitely have serious consequences for all of the other nations who participate in that globalization. Throughout all of this, automation has taken away the ability of people to earn the money they need to buy the things they need. Up until now, the effects of each 'automation shift' has been eased by the presence of an already existing work sector that could absorb those workers who were displaced (from agriculture to manufacturing & manufacturing to information tech). Unfortunately, there is no new work sector that can absorb all of today's unemployed. Many nations are frantically trying to come up with new ideas for industries to do that (green movements, rapid expansion of health services, etc.), but they're only trying to push a huge boulder up a really steep mountain here. To put it bluntly, there's nothing here now (or on the foreseeable horizon) that can supply jobs to hundreds of millions of people. The eventual results appear like they're going to be rather devastating. As more and more people lose their jobs & income, all of the already automated industries will find less and less people who can buy their products. There will be no choice but for them to significantly reduce their output. If left unchecked, the inevitable is a complete and total crash of the monetary system all across the planet. If that wasn't enough to convince you, there's always peak oil to consider. The real reason why oil prices jumped up so high recently is that the producers are no longer able to meet the demand for the stuff. There hasn't been a significant new source of oil discovered since back in the 1970's. That was fine back then since they were bringing up a lot more oil from the ground than the world needed. Supply & demand dictates that an abundance of something makes it monetarily cheap. Most advanced nations stocked up on it because they knew it couldn't last forever. They refer to that emergency stockpile as their 'oil reserves'. Since the 70's, world demand for this 'black gold' has skyrocketed (and we are pretty much all to blame). The vast majority of our agriculture completely depends on the stuff. Almost all farm equipment, pesticides, nearly all modern fertilizers and all of the necessary shipping to move the harvested crops around the world all depend directly on the availability of cheap oil. As oil becomes more and more scarce, food prices will have no choice but to shoot through the roof. Similar reasonable predictions can be shown for almost every other important aspect of our 'modern' lives including availability of fresh water, personal transportation, the generation of electric power, etc.. If we keep going the way we've been going, it won't just be the monetary system that crashes. It'll be humankind.

The Transition: To get from here to a TVP world, there obviously has to be some sort of transition. Our collective patience or impatience will largely determine how smoothly that transition occurs. All of the materials

that the movement begs everyone to study state emphatically that the first stage must be a strong and sustained effort to spread awareness of this RBE direction to people all over the world as quickly as possible. A small percentage of members resist this part and want to jump right into city building. I strongly suspect, at least for most of them, it's because spreading awareness is the hardest part since it includes the risk of rejection. That's the same reason why most people have no interest in 'sales' jobs. So, let's talk about the real wide view a bit. Right now, the best ideas that are being seriously considered are for the first city to not be a 'living city', but instead to serve as a research center where we can test all of the different design concepts we are considering for growing food, power capture/distribution, transportation, food distribution, waste handling, etc., etc., etc.. Of course, the researchers can/will live right there and that will help to test & improve the 'living conditions' of such a city, but it won't be a place for families that aren't associated with the research. If all goes well, it will not be a closed system where the outside world will not have a clue what's going on inside (that's far too dangerous, as you all should very well know). Instead, it will also be open for scientists worldwide to use for all sorts of 'green' research that will benefit not only our movement's forward progress, but also various governments and people worldwide. Think of it as the next logical step for the world after Abu Dhabi (and Google that city, if you're not already familiar with it - it's really cool). If we can present this first city (and perhaps more like it in various parts of the globe), we will be in such a great position to show the entire world's people how well these RBE concepts work and make the idea of a worldwide RBE more tempting to everyone than anything we've done so far by word of mouth. The hope is that people all over the planet will simply start demanding it in their own 'back yards' without being prompted by us to do so. Until we gain that kind of acceptance, I really don't see us having the ability to physically build an actual living city (one that doesn't produce anything for the rest of the world) without having to seriously defend it against everyone such a beast might conceivably threaten. Of course, the key to getting to that point goes back to our absolute imperative need to spread worldwide awareness of this direction as quickly as we can. Once we have at least one research city in place, we will be in a much better position to attempt a true 'worldwide inventory' (Jacque calls it a survey) to learn just how much we have of everything. This will give us a clear understanding of what materials are truly running out vs. plentiful. We'll immediately start using that info to guide us towards the creation of usable substitutes for those resources that are running low. However, we will likely still be operating within a monetary based world, so our progress will be severely restricted until we eventually get past that. The key to doing that lies in the acceptance and attractiveness of these initial cities to the people of the world. The more we are able to prove that this direction far exceeds that of current living conditions, the easier that will be. Once enough people

are demanding it for themselves (as some of you are doing here already lol), the rest of the transition to a RBE should be as smooth as silk and we'll suddenly be free to build at will without any monetary restrictions in our way.

It takes a lot more than just words on a page or a few videos to bring about worldwide change. If we rush into this without a clear plan, we are doomed to fail and will likely end up with Momma Earth shrugging us off her back like the pests we've been to her so far. If we hope to get past this critical part of our history, we have to approach this right. We will likely only get one chance at it. Along those same lines, all of these conspiracy theories floating around are little more than distractions to the movement. Provided we keep out focus and consistently spread awareness of this direction, our plan goes right around all of them. If you see something out there that needs immediate attention, go take care of it however you see fit and then come back here and help us towards the goals of the movement. Bringing that stuff in here will only hurt the movement's forward momentum and make it that much harder for us to succeed at saving the world from itself.

While I'm sure those in the forefront of the movement (Jacque, Roxanne & Peter) likely know more details than we do about the things that stand in our way, nothing is 'set in stone' on this part. It's very likely that the first research city will have to be built in a developing country, perhaps somewhere in South America or Africa. I don't think anyone is expecting that country to fund it, but anything is possible. If the concept of a 'shared resource' research city that I discussed in my earlier post is successfully pitched to numerous countries, we may end up with at least some of those countries chipping in some money to help make it happen. Maybe not. Abu Dhabi has many 'backers', so there's hope for us if we can position this first Venus city as 'the next obvious step' to what they're doing there. One hope is that the first city is so successful that other countries start inquiring as to whether they might build one on their own soil, too. We may have to rely on patents for the tech we use in order to allow us to better control those types of developments. And yes, all of this would most likely occur within the worldwide monetary system we all currently enjoy so much. All bets are off if the current monetary system experiences a complete collapse before we get to this point. Of course, the city will have to get to a point where it is generating all of its own power, supplying all of its own fresh water, growing all of its own food, taking care of all of the resident's needs (transportation, waste removal, communications, etc.), etc. in ways that can be readily duplicated anywhere. Once the research city (or cities) and all of these interrelated concepts are readily understood and accepted by the people of the world, we will be about as close as we can possibly get to the moment of switching the rest of the world over to the same concepts. Still, the only public understanding of these research cities will be that they are simply 'research' cities. The concept of regular folks like you and me actually living in one of them wouldn't even be a thought to most people. Keep in mind that the further out you try to project into the future, the less control you have over how

accurate your predictions are likely to be. Having said that, my own prediction calls for us to start focusing at this point on publicly discussing the possible idea of building some additional cities that take these research city concepts and apply them directly to non-research cities where the focus is on people instead of pure research. These cities may need to have the ability to create much more than what is actually needed by their residents so the cities could help power & feed some of the folks already living in the surrounding areas. That would certainly help legitimize their existence while simultaneously reinforcing their 'awesomeness' to the rest of the planet's people. Assuming all goes well according to this 'master plan' of mine (and it's important to fully understand that this is only my own vision of how things could work out), we could see the replacement of many of today's outdated, crumbling cities with Venus-type cities without there ever being any real opposition, at least from those with today's real power. If the world's monetary system collapses after we reach a the point of critical mass awareness of these concepts, it shouldn't take much at all to convince the world that it would be best for all to not bother 'rebooting' the monetary system anymore and simply switch everything over to RBE. Of course, if it happens after we already have a living city or three, it should be a no brainer for most people worldwide to demand it.

Then the next question would be can we build the supercomputer that calculates almost everything under the monetary system? And if somehow the city is built, I think law is still needed in which some did agree that crime will not be eliminated even in a TVP environment. How will TVP answer this? If TVP does agree to have laws who will enforce the law and who will judge them assuming the monetary government already steps down? Because as far as my knowledge we cannot build the TVP living cities under the monetary system?

My own view is all I can offer you here since this hasn't yet been discussed anywhere that I've found. As far as policing the first city (or first 20, for that matter), they will most likely be seen as falling directly under the jurisdiction of the countries in which they are built. So, if the first research city is built in, say, Columbia, everyone there will have to follow all of Columbia's laws. Abu Dhabi is just as protected as any other city in the United Arab Emirates. My hope is that our city (cities) will be seen in a similar way and enjoy the same type of protection. As they become more and more understood and accepted, the need for 'protection' should diminish. I don't expect it to go away completely until after we are fully in a RBE world and everyone's most basic needs are already being met. Even then, we may still find some folks having a hard time adjusting to this new life of freedom and abundance, so we'll just have to play it by ear. Assuming generations continue dying out and being replaced by new people who are actually born within the RBE world, it'll continue to lessen until we become as civilized as our collective species can obtain under a RBE.

Of course, none of this is set in stone. Someone currently in power could wake up tomorrow with a bad hair day and decide to send a nuke against another country and all of these plans will likely go out the virtual window. Still, it's something strong and righteous to work towards as we attempt to bring sanity to an insane world. It won't be any single computer overseeing all others. There will likely be numerous dedicated servers hosting the actual data (the planet's inventory and the collective knowledge of humankind) and there will be plenty of redundancy to keep this data safe from harm (sabotage, natural disasters, failed hardware, etc.). The part that does the 'thinking' will likely be a collection of super-systems programmed with AI that can access and manipulate the server data in ways that help us arrive at logical conclusions (for example, 'what's the best way to go about cleaning up the plastic soup from the pacific ocean without harming the life it contains?'). The rest of it will likely be little more than connecting our own personal systems to the network to access all it can do for us. For all intents and purposes, this "Master Computer" is basically the internet, but in a much more robust form. We will need to update it significantly to handle the expected load and make it available anywhere on the planet, but the hard part has already been accomplished. I seriously doubt that today's regular old Internet 1.0 or the Internet 2.0 that many universities now use will be sufficient, so a more powerful set of communication languages will need to be developed to support the goals. I'm also sure those languages are already in development (and perhaps already completed), but a lack of money prevents it from being implemented. The RBE will take care of the money part and the development will be immediately accelerated to bring it about. Given a non-monetary environment (i.e. worldwide RBE), I would expect it to take about 5 seriously focused years to get 'Master Computer Network 1.0' in place. The most demanding part will be the writing of the software to interconnect all of the things we will want it to handle. Note: In another thread, Nanos suggested that Assembly Language is already more than up to the task of handling the language part. I agree with him, but there are an awful lot of highly paid programmers out there who have no clue how to work with it. So, perhaps we just need to edumacate more programmers in order to realize the level of control we all need over the 'world network'. Note: this is a post by Gman Linguistic Team Caretaker Moderator