Jason Lord | "Visualizing a Systems Approach" | The Zeitgeist Movement | [LA TownHall - Part 2]
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0:01 - 0:05The name of this presentation is Visualizing a Systems Approach.
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0:05 - 0:09This is a single aspect regarding the direction advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement.
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0:09 - 0:13In an event to me it's a key factor understanding human decision making
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0:13 - 0:17and problem solving beyond this publical sphere.
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0:17 - 0:21As we go through the materials we offer reference,
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0:21 - 0:25you come across in many terms and phrases that sounds impressive and fun to say,
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0:25 - 0:28some examples of this would be the resource-based economic model,
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0:28 - 0:32technological unemployment, dynamic equilibrium,
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0:32 - 0:37the scientific method for social concern, a systems approach resource management,
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0:37 - 0:39along with many others.
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0:41 - 0:44Spending a lot of time in the movement, speaking about the root causes that persist on problems,
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0:44 - 0:48of the social operation of the planet,
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0:48 - 0:50specially regarding the monotonous negative outcome
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0:50 - 0:54such as crime, poverty, war, polution, death, another forms of corruption.
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0:54 - 0:58Well, it is logical to understand the problems first,
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0:58 - 1:01we can sometimes miss the focus on aspects of the solutions we propose,
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1:01 - 1:04even know that there is plenty of information available.
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1:06 - 1:09At the foundation of what the movement advocates,
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1:09 - 1:12it's a global movement which can be turned a resource based economy.
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1:12 - 1:17Maybe none to many of us, by the work of The Venus Project, in Venus, Florida,
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1:17 - 1:20a resource-based economic model is a social structure,
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1:20 - 1:24that is global on its operation, based entirely on the earths resources
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1:24 - 1:27as the starting point for the society to decision making.
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1:28 - 1:30Where all goods and services are available,
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1:30 - 1:35without the use of currency, credit, market, or any form of debt or servitude.
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1:35 - 1:40Also, should be an industrial operations are arranged on what we call a systems approach,
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1:40 - 1:44which logically treats the planet earth as a single system that is happens to be.
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1:44 - 1:47We also advocate the application of technology
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1:47 - 1:52to the automation of labour of free humanity from maintaining arbitrary occupation rules,
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1:52 - 1:56which have no such relevance for social well beign, and, at the end of the day,
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1:56 - 2:00we want to encourage new value and incentive system through this social design,
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2:00 - 2:04which maintains a focus on attributes such as community,
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2:04 - 2:09human well being, regular education, social awareness, and creativity.
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2:10 - 2:13That is as far we go into the overall direction
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2:13 - 2:16since it's far too much information we shared with you tonight.
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2:16 - 2:19Instead, i wished to spend a few minutes visualizing a core attribute in this model
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2:19 - 2:24to give you some work understanding one piece of the technical jargon.
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2:24 - 2:29The attribute of focus in this presentation will be a systems approach.
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2:29 - 2:32Our relationship to the earth and the enviroments we are living
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2:32 - 2:36is not a political issue, or a religious ideal.
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2:36 - 2:39It is a technical relationship,
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2:39 - 2:41separated a living organism from its surroundings
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2:41 - 2:44and will die from a lack of oxygen, water and food.
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2:44 - 2:46Organisms are open systems that can not survive
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2:46 - 2:51without continuously extending matter energy with their environment.
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2:51 - 2:54Since we observe systems interacting with each other,
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2:54 - 2:57it's part of a whole, it is in a logical unified system with the biosphere
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2:57 - 3:00and which we are on happy with
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3:00 - 3:05Systems then can be defined as an approach of problems solving.
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3:05 - 3:09by viewing problems is part of the overall
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3:09 - 3:12rather than reacting problem isolated
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3:12 - 3:15unrelated phenomenal from a larger order.
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3:15 - 3:21When taking it separated, such patchworks may development of unintended consequences,
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3:21 - 3:26such as trying to resolve problems from the monetary inflation with more inflation,
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3:26 - 3:29or trying to fate the destruction of the rain forests
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3:29 - 3:31or the increase of plastic waste on our ocean by more laws and legislation,
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3:31 - 3:35rather than addressing the causes of the behaviour to begin with.
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3:35 - 3:38Systems thinking is not one thing,
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3:38 - 3:42but such of habits or practices within the framework that is based on the principle
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3:42 - 3:47that a component part of a system are best understood in context of relationships,
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3:47 - 3:51rather than from isolation from one another.
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3:51 - 3:55So, this present has an attribute that is often mentioned, which is a systems approach.
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3:55 - 4:01A systems approach to the resources management on the planet is comprised of realtime data and statistics.
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4:01 - 4:05This approach can bind with the attribute of peak efficiency,
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4:05 - 4:08so the peak of preservation and conservation
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4:08 - 4:11becoming necessary components to what we call as sustainable society.
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4:11 - 4:16The process of unfolding, which you may call decision making,
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4:16 - 4:19is based on natural law in reason,
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4:19 - 4:23not on political ideologies, or religious notions, or groups oppinion.
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4:23 - 4:29When using a systems approach we arriving in decisions as supposed to make in them.
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4:29 - 4:36Making a decision is a subjective act often based on incomplete information or affected by these cultural bias.
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4:36 - 4:40Our goal is to remove the basis of ones oppinion as best we can,
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4:40 - 4:42by using the most optimal knowledge we have,
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4:42 - 4:47to align with natural processes, to the best of our habilities at a giving time.
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4:47 - 4:52This is an emergent process, because the body of knowledge of human understanding changes over time is
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4:52 - 4:56news covering amaze, to a no final frontier.
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4:57 - 5:02So, human management of the environment equilibrium of this planet
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5:02 - 5:05which is an initial variable how well society functions,
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5:05 - 5:10comes first from understand what the carrying capacity of the earth actually is.
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5:10 - 5:14It follows that the needs of the human population
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5:14 - 5:17must be in balance with the resources of the earth or negative outcomes occur.
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5:18 - 5:21So, what were we start?
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5:21 - 5:24What is the first step to determine the carrying capacity of the earth?
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5:24 - 5:28Well, as worse as systems approach comes in.
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5:28 - 5:32A logical start would be with full survey with the earth resources,
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5:32 - 5:37such we must know we have to work with in order to arrive in any decisions.
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5:37 - 5:41There are many natural resources to be considered, such as forests, and oceans, and energy,
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5:41 - 5:44along with arable land, and water, and minerals,
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5:44 - 5:48but for the sake of simplicity, let's for first these components of these natural resources.
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5:50 - 5:54If anyone is carrying think out has any sense,
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5:54 - 5:57but how even be possible to create this kind of global system,
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5:57 - 6:00or perhaps you might be thinking that the technological know how,
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6:00 - 6:04for such a comprehensive survey be too futuristic.
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6:04 - 6:07Well, this point i would like to make the use of few visual examples
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6:07 - 6:11of current the real world technical systems that are working in this regard right now.
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6:15 - 6:21This is an accurate visualization of many current informer nasa earth observing satelites.
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6:21 - 6:28With names like Trum, Landsat7, Terra, Io1, Jason2, Grace, Isat and Aquarius,
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6:28 - 6:31these one man proves quitely being down information
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6:31 - 6:35that was transforming to understanding of how the earth works.
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6:35 - 6:39And what we know about the human fingerprint on the climate?
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6:39 - 6:44Together, they represent an application of technology in realtime,
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6:44 - 6:47working this part of this globe surveying system,
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6:47 - 6:52not something like Star Trek, not something a hundred years away, but orbiting the planet right now.
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6:54 - 6:57Let's look at the closer example.
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6:57 - 7:01The satellite Aquarius is designed to take comprehensive salinity measurements of our oceans,
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7:01 - 7:04and they are entirelly every week.
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7:04 - 7:06The data obtained from these measurements
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7:06 - 7:09how being such comprehesive questions about climate change.
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7:09 - 7:14Why salinity? When the density of the ocean waters determined from its salinity and from misleading temperature.
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7:14 - 7:18Density of the ocean water drives the patterns of the deep ocean currents,
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7:18 - 7:21and ocean currents drives global change.
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7:21 - 7:24In recent decades, scientists have seen there are ocean salinity have shifted
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7:24 - 7:28in ways which only climate changes seems to be able to explain.
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7:29 - 7:32For four hundred miles above the surface of the earth,
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7:32 - 7:34Aquarius can attempt to detect differences on ocean salinity
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7:34 - 7:38to even a pinch of salt in a gallon of water.
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7:38 - 7:42With this visualization we were seeing an example of current technology
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7:42 - 7:44being applied by methods of sciences
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7:44 - 7:48for environmental and, ultimatelly, social concern.
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7:51 - 7:54The collection of all of this data can be used for understanding our environment,
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7:54 - 7:58or even predicting possible outcomes.
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7:58 - 8:02In this example, what you're seeing is not photographed from space.
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8:02 - 8:06Every pixel from is calculated by the geos5 super computer.
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8:06 - 8:09This supercomputer can accuratelly model and simulate
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8:09 - 8:13the earth's atmosphere conditions for short periods of time.
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8:13 - 8:18In this example, this model is giving data leading up into February second 2010,
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8:18 - 8:21and then, it preceeded to predict the atmosphere's response
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8:21 - 8:23for the next twenty days without any further input.
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8:23 - 8:28This model simulated the real world weather events that actually took place,
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8:28 - 8:33including snow strorms, couple of cyclones, and other climatic conditions.
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8:36 - 8:43Continuing these examples, the Terra and Acqua satellites, gather data of the earth surface every two days.
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8:43 - 8:48This animation shows were the world's food is grown versus where the world's food is consumed.
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8:48 - 8:52The movie starts with the global problems that faces to the countries
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8:52 - 8:55are producing either 80% of the world's weed, grain and cereal.
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8:55 - 8:58And then overlays to the world's population density
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8:58 - 9:03and then double and triple their populations by the year 2050.
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9:06 - 9:12There also exists a mineral resource datasystem, which is a statistical survey done by the USGeos.
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9:13 - 9:16This is United States geological survey.
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9:16 - 9:19The map, this map is a collection of reports
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9:19 - 9:23subscribing the mineral resources through the United States.
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9:24 - 9:26The survey actually expands out for the entire globe,
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9:26 - 9:29but this map just chooses an example purpose for this presentation.
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9:29 - 9:34This is an example of the information that would be part of the so called geodatabase, if you will.
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9:34 - 9:38Integrating the dataset into a global knowledge base
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9:38 - 9:42of our resource management system as a function of a systems approach we have being exploring.
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9:42 - 9:46Another example of visualizing systems approach,
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9:46 - 9:51in action, is viewing compiled data from our global resource system.
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9:51 - 9:56Here, a member of the google earth community, assembled this image from the CIA world factbook,
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9:56 - 10:00showing the world oil consumption for the year 2007.
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10:00 - 10:04This chart displays a exploring 3d graphs in the shape of each country,
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10:04 - 10:08showing the relationship of the oil consumption between countries.
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10:08 - 10:13Here, the United States is showing a tremendous consumption of about 21 million of barrels per day,
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10:13 - 10:19which is almost 25% of the earth total of the 80 million of oil barrels consumed worldwide,
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10:19 - 10:22that's daily, 80 million barrels, a day.
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10:24 - 10:28So, how would you possible interact with such a system that meants data?
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10:30 - 10:33We are following the evolution of the tax space search engines that we are all familiar with today,
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10:33 - 10:38we would interact with this vast knowledge database via computerized AI systems.
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10:40 - 10:45In an example of a computational knowledge of engineerying in generality exists, is Wolfram Alpha.
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10:45 - 10:49This engine generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base
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10:49 - 10:53in set on searching the internet and returning you links.
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10:53 - 10:56In a resource based system that we advocate,
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10:56 - 11:01such a concept can be easily scaled out to include the immensum database
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11:01 - 11:05that is currently collected in both public and private sectors in the world today.
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11:07 - 11:10Along with many free information in data products out there via the internet,
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11:10 - 11:16one could well ponder that question that if a lower cooperation from our technology friends
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11:16 - 11:22could be actually have a path to lead forward and move in such direction? Well, who knows?
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11:22 - 11:25And maybe the world is simply waiting for people enough who want to do so.
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11:26 - 11:29The point is, threre are many real world working examples
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11:29 - 11:35to show such collaborative social system is technically reality and not in someday phenomenal.
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11:37 - 11:40And going to conclude here, with this artistic representation of the system
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11:40 - 11:43is visualized by industrial designing social engineering,
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11:43 - 11:45Jacque Fresco, from The Venus Project,
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11:45 - 11:48who spent more than seventy years of his life researching such a direction.
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11:49 - 11:51I hope this presentation is helping you to understand
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11:51 - 11:54how these system approaches to resources management could work,
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11:54 - 11:58how we can approach problem solving beyond the spheres of politics,
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11:58 - 12:02how we can arrive in decisions via science rather than human oppinion or majority vote.
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12:02 - 12:08And how current technology can be applied to make such a resource based system a reality.
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- Jason Lord | "Visualizing a Systems Approach" | The Zeitgeist Movement | [LA TownHall - Part 2]
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"Visualizing a Systems Approach" by Jason Lord |
The Zeitgeist Movement | Los Angeles CA "TownHall" | Oct 26 2011
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