Elysium on Earth; Evolving our Economical System for the Technology Human

Elysium is a new Hollywood film which showcases a future society in the year 2154. During the film we learn that Elysium; a man made space station planet, uses intelligent technologies to successfully eliminate poverty, war and even illness. But the technology and environment is only accessible to a privileged few. 

Fig 1.0 - Elysium movie trailer - Matt Damon

Back here on Earth in 2013 a new tech startup called WAVE has successfully completed valuable research and development of an actual technology platform solution which is capable of creating Elysium-style conditions, right here on planet Earth. The technology is expected to be released to the public by as early as 2015, but unlike Elysium the benefits will be accessible to everyone and not just a privileged few. Making anything free to everyone would seem impossible in our current economic system, but the change needed is already happening.

We're beginning to see a trend in the emergence of free (ad supported) telecommunications services and devices e.g. Ovivo and FreedomPop , internet.org and very shortly WAVE. Amazon were also recently rumoured to be releasing a free smartphone. Our ability to communicate digitally it evidently about to transform, from an affordable privilege to our free (and perhaps inherent) right. So 7 billion of us will soon be able digitally interconnect for free. This means we can migrate onto a virtual economic system which can be used  by everyone, instead of our archaic systems of money, law and even government.

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The Extropy Trust was set up in 2012 to explore the opportunity of developing a new technology that will help us to migrate to a new virtual economic system. The Trust is now home to more than 30 British Defence telecommunications and cyber security engineers who have already assumed over quarter of a million pounds of research and development costs for the new technology platform. The proposed technology is codenamed WAVE; A new platform that paves the way for a new era of applications that function as an alternative approach to our entire systems of law, currency and government. The technology is considered an innovative leap forward, both technologically and philosophically. 

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Throughout history human achievement has been grouped into various levels. Level 1 was the nomadic and cave based human, capable of only sustaining themselves, their mate and their children. Level 2 and 3 were the hunter gatherers and agricultural humans, capable of sustaining their groups and towns. But when James Watt developed the steam engine in 1782, mankind entered into level 4; the industrial human; Capable of sustaining cities, nations and even supporting foreign nations in times of need. We're now on the doorstep of level 5; the technology human; Capable of sustaining the world and the entire human population to a high standard of living. 

Figure 1.1 - James Watt and his steam engine vs Sergey Brin wearing an information system.  

As each new level was reached, a change in our economic system needed to occur in order it become efficient enough for the new paradigm. Despite the fact our technical capabilities now permit us to evolve our post-industrial economic systems, it hasn't happened yet. Paradoxically, this is the 21st Century’s greatest challenge but also one of today's greatest opportunity.

So we're moving to a new economic system. 

Why ? 

How ? 

The Extropy Trust's research has revealed several pioneers who help explain the logistics of how we would shift from the current economical system to a knowledge and resource based society using solutions such as WAVE. They tell us that we must first unlearn the old system and rid our minds of it. 

Royalty and Ownership

For much of history, royalty was thought to be divinely conferred by God. Successful claims of 'Royal blood' and 'Royal descent' gave families and individuals ultimate ownership of everything within reach, including the Army's. Those who refused to follow and worship at lower levels in this hierarchy, faced elimination from armed force. Self-proclaimed entitlement to titles and land remained effective if left unchallenged and undefeated, making this belief part of our heritage and current reality.

Most people don't believe in Royal blood nowadays, and as the video above explains it is archaic, but an hereditary royal family still seems to many, a useful thing to have because it saves all the bother and expense of electing a president and/or a Governmental restructure.  Divine rights aside we cannot escape what is known to many as 'allodial ownership'. It is the highest form of ownership and is reserved for governments or rulers. To proclaim allodial ownership one must defend and occupy what they would like considered theirs (and their subjects). Once established, equitable ownership can be entrusted onto others and those entrusted with equitable ownership can appoint legal owners.

Finding high-ground with land is still a case of defending off attacks and finding shelter. Today's homeowners pay for legal title of their land and home. Estate owners and banks retain equitable title but pay the government for this privilege. Governments retain allodial ownership and so receive the revenues and defend the land. In Britain this all happens under the reign of our monarch, her majesty; The Queen. Subscribers to this entire system are granted benefits and privileges (in consideration of our rights and freedoms). Unsubscribers are vilified and outlawed from 'society'.

Fig 1.2 - John Harris talk about the logistics of becoming a King in the 21st Century

Government and Law

For many thousands of years our monetary system, law and especially government have been instrumental towards international trade, maintaining social order and managing the earths resources. But these monopolised systems, depend on everyones' trust in order to gain mass subscription and succeed. Unlike modern technology, these systems have not found it easy to withstand alternatives and sustain in our everyday lives. So as with colonisation (and recent globalisation), a degree of coercion and even force has been necessary to ensure people understand and subscribe to these systems, from one generation to the next. 

Fig 1.3 - People vs institution

Communities become as much a part of these systems as the systems do to communities. Trust, allegiance and dependance has systematically shifted away from our neighbours and community and into these archaic systems, which by their very design, have morphed into a pyramid power structure where 99% of the world now work to serve an elite few. International markets, social order and fair distribution of earth's resources within our current technological age are suffering at the hand of the industrial economical system.

People subscribed to these institutionalised systems have developed a closed-off, selective and controlling mindset (CSC). Agents of said systems can be totally unaware that their subservience to such systems effectively blockade, outlaw and enemize alternative economic systems which when practiced, effectively threaten the disempowerment of the entire monetary, legal and governmental system. And perhaps even the subscribed belief of having a ruling class such as the Royal Family. 

We are now in a state of madness. We believe that the same systems that are the chronic cause of our economic problems can be trusted to get us out of the problematic situations they've created e.g. banks, governments, laws etc. But they have had their time in history and are now, in reality, on the brink of becoming extinct and replaced with technological alternatives. If you seek the chronic solution to our economic problems you will quickly discover that the actual system of money, law and government (and even monarchy) are mere belief systems that were once effective and trusted, but are now so old, complex and layered that citizens (and public servants) stand-under them without actually understanding them.

Monetary System 

TSB Bank actually propose we start the exact same game of monopoly again, from the beginning. Yet there has been no real change in the prejudicial system which led to such substantial global inequality and suffering. This relentless campaign is aimed at the real dummies of the world. We all know exactly how the game of banking begins and ends. TSB might try regaining our trust by pawning the good name of their founder, but this is an effort to squeeze dry the remaining survivors of a corrupt and broken monetary system. 

Do TSB honestly expect us to believe that if we go into branch with a sick child or a hungry family their computer will suddenly say yes ? Or that they will apply the same principles and morality as a Rev. Henry Duncan did in 1810. Utter nonsense. Their computerised casino banking systems only permit their bankers to deal if the house wins. They have no empathy or compassion and the staff change from week to week so there are no real relationship being created between the bank and customer. The entire system has to go.

Figure 1.4 - TSB advert for a 'changed banking service'


At the hands of these systems the spirited human has long been reduced to a subservient drone, living in an immensely passive state of consciousness. The result is a lifelong avoidance of original thought or active motivation which might inevitably lead to civil unrest, lawful disobedience and eventually a long needed revolution. 

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Virtualised systems such as e-banking and government gateways are digital enhancements to the old economic system, they are not to be mistaken as the emergence of an alternative. WAVE is a new technology platform that makes internet access and the physical hardware require to surf the net, 100% free for the user. The platform offers users of the platform e.g everyone, applications which completely reinvent how we conduct international trade, social order and resource management. 

Figure 1.5 - Wave Telecom logo  - Property of The Extropy Trust

Understanding and untangling yourself from 'the old systems'

Below is one of the greatest video's of the 21st Century. Although a little difficult to understand at first, in appreciation of its relevance to technology,  Dean Clifford successfully dissects and 'backbuilds' the entire system of jurisdiction and how it works on the natural human whom is born with freedoms and rights in full tact.

Fig 1.6 - Dean Clifford helps us understand jurisdiction

 If you feel this video is too heavy then hear the same information from the instigator of this movement, Rober Menard. This guys is also a former comedian and makes the entire education of this subject humorous as well as informative.

Embrace 'the new systems' 

Google's Dr Eric Schmidt tells us to expect the emergence of a philosophical and technical alternative to our entire system of law. The phrase he coined for this system is 'Dual Crowdsourcing'. A virtual system that allows anyone to report incidents up to the cloud and simultaneously allows jurors to pass judgments down from the cloud. Collectively and anonymously in real-time.

Fig 1.7- Google's Eric Schmidt explaining dual crowdsourcing

Intelligent Resource Management

The Extropy Trust charter runs in unison with the The Venus Project; A highly reputable proposal for a modern moneyless society which now has over 170,000+ followers. The founders are Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows who are now planning to influence the creation of a hollywood film in addition to building a showcase city which will help raise awareness of what they are referring to as a Resource Based Economy (RBE).

Fig 1.8 - Image of the Venus Project directly from Roxanne Meadows. 

Thought Leadership, Influence and Reputation

There are only a few windows in history where the opportunity exists to reinvest part of how our post-economic system works. We are living through one of those moments. I believe we are at the start of a collaborative revolution that will be as significant as the industrial revolution. 

In the 20th Century the invention of credit transformed our consumer system and in many ways controlled who had access to what. In the 21st Century new trust networks and the reputation capital they generate, will reinvest the way we think about wealth, markets, power and personal identity in ways we cant yet even imagine.

Fig 1.9 - Rachel Botsman - Ted Talk on 'The currency of the new economy is trust'

Finding high-ground in cyberspace is different to land. Everyone in this domain is effectively an allodial owner of the high-ground they create for themselves. In consideration of this domains added addition of openness and transparency, lawlessness and anarchy can actually create a more lawful and just environment than the instrument of law. In fact, a common misconception is that anarchy means chaos when in cyberspace it really means a de-centralised power-base, which in effect is possible and more democratic that a Government controlled) 'democracy'. But what about resources? In the past we trusted Government to manage our resources, now we can trust intelligent (de-centralised) systems. 

Fig 2.0 - Resource Loaning and Sharing

The urge to own items is being replaced with the urge to access items. "We are entering a new age where sharing is frictionless and fun. Sharing is to ownership what solar power is to the coal mine " Rachel Botsman

Fig 2.1 - Yochai Benkler - Open-Source Economics

Logarithmic Social Scoring (moneyless platform) 

Details still in Draft, watch this space

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WAVE is a disruptive new system that could outperform our system of money, law and government. And through the choice of the people, would also outrank them. Since the emergence of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, we've also developed a completely new mindset to the tradition of institutional thinking. WAVE could therefore find it frictionless to embed themselves into our everyday lives.

The old evolution its cold, it's sterile, it's efficient and it's manifestation are those social adaptation; Parasitism, dominance, morality, war and predation. WAVE will subject these to de-emphasis and are subsequently subject to de-evolution. WAVE also hopes to be one of the first technologies for this new evolutionary paradigm which facilitates a creative class. The manifestation would be that of truth, loyalty, justice and freedom.

Figure 2.2 - Soundbite from the 2001 film 'Walking Life' - A scientist explains the telescopic effect of the post-industrial evolutionary paradigm. 

Advances in telecommunications and Cyberspace offer remedy. This new domain brings us openness and transparency and interconnects us all once again. by its very nature this domain is a power-leveller. Our mindset is also shifting; from an institutional one (CSC) to a networked one. Thomas Power coins the phrase ORS (Open, Random and Supportive) and explains the difficulties in migrating from one paradigm to the other. 

Fig 2.3 - Thomas Power talking explaining CSC and ORS

The new and old systems are already becoming notorious for locking horns at an ideological and philosophical level. But as we move away from the old economical systems and onto WAVE, we will, (as James Burke predicts), witness one of the biggest global movement of the last 150,000 years.

Figure 2.4 - The gap between the rich and poor is now worse than the 1928 great depression

A Cyber Civil War between these rival systems seems unfathomable but at the same time it is very imminent and will likely conclude in a matter of weeks or even days. This is because of the immense traction that occurs in cyberspace. An example of this is the game Angry Birds, which in 2012 gained 50 million subscribers in only 35 days. This is more than the entire population of South Korea.

Fig 2.5 - Angry Birds 

Development

The technological and deployment strategy of WAVE will not be disclosed to individuals outside of the Extropy Trust. As expected from 2011 R&D, our Trust is already encountering many agents of the old economic system that seek to exploit the good nature of the WAVE project and this unique opportunity to move into a new economic age. WAVE's technology platform and Integration Alliance is already witnessing unconstitutional and unlawful behaviour from parties invited to join the WAVE initiative. These parties already include; Moben View2Surf, Ericsson, Opera Software, Nokia, Samsung, Qualcomm, Facebook and even Mark Zuckerberg himself. Below is an example of the above blog being claimed by Mark Zukerberg and the Internet.org innitiative. 

Fig 2.6 - Mark Zuckerberg  summarising this blog and plugs his version of WAVE, which he calls internet.org


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Status Update; September 2013

Fig 2.7 - Sion Buckler talks with investor zone

The first application of this technology platform is to transform digital communications, from an affordable privilege to a free and inherent right. This project has gained early phase financing from investors and will be released to the web very soon; read more