By Jacque Fresco

With the advent of future developments inscience and technology we will assign moreand more decision making to machines Atpresent this is evident in military systems inwhich electronic sensors maintain the idealflight characteristics in advanced aircraftThe capacities of computers today exceedfive hundred The complexity of todayrsquoscivilization is far too challenging for humansystems to manage without the assistance ofelectronic computers Computers of todayare relatively primitive compared to thosethat will evolve in the future Eventually themanagement of social systems will requireelectronic sensors interconnected with allphases of the social sequences thuseliminating the need for politics

Today modern industrial plants have built inautomatic inventory systems which ordermaterials such as bearings and othermechanical replacements well in advance

We believe it is now possible to achieve asociety where people would be able to livelonger healthier and more meaningfulproductive lives In such a society themeasure of success would be based uponthe fulfillment of ones individual pursuitsrather than the acquisition of wealthproperty and power Although many of theconcepts presented here may appear asunattainable goals all of the ideas are basedupon known scientific principles It is not mypurpose to write an article that would beacceptable to people this is not the concernof science

The social direction being proposed herehas no parallel in history with any otherprevious political ideology or economicstrategy Establishing the parameters of thisnew civilization will require transcendingmany of the traditions values and methodsof the past The future will evolve its own newparadigms appropriate to each successivephase of human and technologicaldevelopment

Throughout the history of civilization fewnational leaders or politicians have everproposed a comprehensive plan to improvethe lives of all people under theirjurisdiction

Although such individuals as Plato EdwardBellamy HG Wells Karl Marx and HowardScott all made some attempts to present anew civilization the established social orderconsidered them impractical dreamers withUtopian designs that ran contrary to theinnate elements of human nature Arrayedagainst these social pioneers was aformidable status quo composed of vestedinterests that were comfortable with the waythings were and a populace at large that outof years of indoctrination and conditioningwanted no radical changes These were themillions of unappointed guardians of thestatus quo The outlook and philosophy ofthe leaders were consistent with theirpositions of differential advantage

The Future and Beyond

Beyond Utopia

By Jacque Fresco

With the advent of future developments inscience and technology we will assign moreand more decision making to machines Atpresent this is evident in military systems inwhich electronic sensors maintain the idealflight characteristics in advanced aircraftThe capacities of computers today exceedfive hundred The complexity of todayrsquoscivilization is far too challenging for humansystems to manage without the assistance ofelectronic computers Computers of todayare relatively primitive compared to thosethat will evolve in the future Eventually themanagement of social systems will requireelectronic sensors interconnected with allphases of the social sequences thuseliminating the need for politics

Today modern industrial plants have built inautomatic inventory systems which ordermaterials such as bearings and othermechanical replacements well in advance

We believe it is now possible to achieve asociety where people would be able to livelonger healthier and more meaningfulproductive lives In such a society themeasure of success would be based uponthe fulfillment of ones individual pursuitsrather than the acquisition of wealthproperty and power Although many of theconcepts presented here may appear asunattainable goals all of the ideas are basedupon known scientific principles It is not mypurpose to write an article that would beacceptable to people this is not the concernof science

The social direction being proposed herehas no parallel in history with any otherprevious political ideology or economicstrategy Establishing the parameters of thisnew civilization will require transcendingmany of the traditions values and methodsof the past The future will evolve its own newparadigms appropriate to each successivephase of human and technologicaldevelopment

Throughout the history of civilization fewnational leaders or politicians have everproposed a comprehensive plan to improvethe lives of all people under theirjurisdiction

Although such individuals as Plato EdwardBellamy HG Wells Karl Marx and HowardScott all made some attempts to present anew civilization the established social orderconsidered them impractical dreamers withUtopian designs that ran contrary to theinnate elements of human nature Arrayedagainst these social pioneers was aformidable status quo composed of vestedinterests that were comfortable with the waythings were and a populace at large that outof years of indoctrination and conditioningwanted no radical changes These were themillions of unappointed guardians of thestatus quo The outlook and philosophy ofthe leaders were consistent with theirpositions of differential advantage

The Future and Beyond

Beyond Utopia

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

VIDEO INTRO

By Jacque Fresco

With the advent of future developments inscience and technology we will assign moreand more decision making to machines Atpresent this is evident in military systems inwhich electronic sensors maintain the idealflight characteristics in advanced aircraftThe capacities of computers today exceedfive hundred The complexity of todayrsquoscivilization is far too challenging for humansystems to manage without the assistance ofelectronic computers Computers of todayare relatively primitive compared to thosethat will evolve in the future Eventually themanagement of social systems will requireelectronic sensors interconnected with allphases of the social sequences thuseliminating the need for politics

Today modern industrial plants have built inautomatic inventory systems which ordermaterials such as bearings and othermechanical replacements well in advance

We believe it is now possible to achieve asociety where people would be able to livelonger healthier and more meaningfulproductive lives In such a society themeasure of success would be based uponthe fulfillment of ones individual pursuitsrather than the acquisition of wealthproperty and power Although many of theconcepts presented here may appear asunattainable goals all of the ideas are basedupon known scientific principles It is not mypurpose to write an article that would beacceptable to people this is not the concernof science

The social direction being proposed herehas no parallel in history with any otherprevious political ideology or economicstrategy Establishing the parameters of thisnew civilization will require transcendingmany of the traditions values and methodsof the past The future will evolve its own newparadigms appropriate to each successivephase of human and technologicaldevelopment

Throughout the history of civilization fewnational leaders or politicians have everproposed a comprehensive plan to improvethe lives of all people under theirjurisdiction

Although such individuals as Plato EdwardBellamy HG Wells Karl Marx and HowardScott all made some attempts to present anew civilization the established social orderconsidered them impractical dreamers withUtopian designs that ran contrary to theinnate elements of human nature Arrayedagainst these social pioneers was aformidable status quo composed of vestedinterests that were comfortable with the waythings were and a populace at large that outof years of indoctrination and conditioningwanted no radical changes These were themillions of unappointed guardians of thestatus quo The outlook and philosophy ofthe leaders were consistent with theirpositions of differential advantage

The Future and Beyond

Beyond Utopia

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

VIDEO INTRO

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

VIDEO INTRO

In 1898 Edward Bellamy wrote the book Looking Backward He conceived of an idealegalitarian social system with many advanced ideas for its time This bestseller generated a greatdeal of interest and many people inquired as to how this type of cooperative Utopian society couldbe brought about Bellamy replied though that he was just a writer and did not know how to createsuch a society

The proposals he presented and those of Platos Republic the writings of Karl Marx H G Wells inhis book The Shape of Things to Come and many others all represent attempts to find workablesolutions to the many problems that earlier civilizations were unable to resolve There is little doubtthat at the time of Bellamys books the social conditions were abominable which made theUtopian ideal extremely appealing What appears to be lacking in most of these concepts howeverhas been an overall plan and the necessary methods for a transitional system to enable the idea tobecome a reality Most of the early visions of a better world did not allow for changes in eithertechnology or human values tending to arrest innovative efforts Additionally all have lacked acomprehensive set of blueprints models and a methodology for implementation Finally theylacked competent individuals to bring about such a transition

The answers do not lie in debate or philosophicaldiscussion of values but rather in methodologyThus what is needed is an operational definitionof a better world which is as follows Toconstantly maximize existing and futuretechnologies with the sole purpose ofenhancing all human life and protecting theenvironment

Today we have developed the necessarytechnology to surpass the fondest hopes anddreams of any social innovators of the past Thefact that previous attempts at social change havefailed is no justification for us to stop trying Thereal danger lies in complacency The onlylimitations to the future of humankind are thosethat we impose upon ourselves It is now possibleto relieve humanity of many of its unresolvedproblems through the humane application oftechnology

Many years ago an attempt was made in the U Sto understand a social and economic systemdifferent from our own A film called The Marchof Time had this to say about SovietCommunism We believe that the American free-enterprise system will function better than thecollective system However we wish you the bestof luck on your new and unusual socialexperiment The failure of communism toprovide for human needs and to enrich the livesof its citizens is not unlike our own failures

Science is replete with examples of experiments that have failed as well as those that havebeen successful In the development of the airplane for example there were thousands of failuresbefore the first workable model was produced In the field of medicine Dr Ehrlich attempted over600 different approaches to controlling syphilis before one was finally proven successful All of thetechnology we use today such as computers cellular phones the Internet aircraft and automobilesare in a constant state of improvement and modification Yet our social system and values remainlargely static An inscription on one of our government buildings reads as follows Where there is novision the people perish Attaining visions requires change

The major reason for resisting change is that it tends to threaten the established interests Actuallythe fear of social change is somewhat unfounded when we consider that the entire history ofcivilization has been in a sense an experiment Even the American free-enterprise system duringits earliest stages faced a multitude of problems much more severe than they are today Theseincluded long work hours exploitation of child labor inadequate ventilation in industrial plantslack of rights for women and minorities hazardous conditions in mines and racial prejudice Despiteits many problems it was the greatest social experiment in history in terms of diversity of lifestylesand individual freedoms innovations in architecture and technology and overall progress ingeneral It is imperative that we continue the process of social experimentation in order totranscend our present limitations and enhance the lives of everyone

The future does not depend on our present-day beliefs or social customs but will continue toevolve a set of values unique to its own time There are no Utopias The very notion of Utopia isstatic However the survival of any social system ultimately depends upon its ability to allow forappropriate change to improve society as a whole The paths that we choose will ultimatelydetermine whether or not there is intelligent life on earth

Both failure and success are inherent in the on-going experiment that is social evolution In allestablished social systems it is necessary to devise different approaches to improve the workings ofthe system

cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

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cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

VIDEO INTRO

cities in the seaA global system of these structures caneasily accommodate many millions ofpeople and relieve the land basedpopulation pressures They can providethe inhabitants with information andserve as natural sea aquariums withoutartificially enclosing marine life

Many of these cities may serve as oceanographic universities that maintain theecological balance of marine systems Other ocean cities will maintain sea farmsthat will cultivate many forms of marine life They could also be used as a newresource for mining the relatively untapped resources of the oceans withoutdisturbing its ecology Others may monitor and maintain environmentalequilibrium and reclaim dangerous radioactive and other pollutant materials thathave been dumped into the sea

After construction these structures can be towed to various locations where theywould be most beneficial then anchored to the ocean floor Some structures willbe towed in prefabricated segments and then joined together at selectedlocations Their internal construction will include floatation chambers which willrender them practically unsinkable They can be self maintained and fullyautomated

VIDEO INTRO

Off Shore LivingOffshore apartment buildings of concrete steel glass titanium and a wide variety of newsynthetic materials could be built to relieve the population pressure in areas like HongKong Tokyo Los Angeles and New York The materials used in such projects would beengineered to withstand the corrosive effects of the harsh ocean environment

Automated Water SystemsEventually with applied totaldesign concepts and mega-hydrological projects we couldminimize the threat of floods anddrought These waterways would bean integrated part of a national floodcontrol system that would hold backfloodwaters which could bereleased during periods of droughtand be used to maintain the watertable

It could also be used for irrigationshipping passengers and bulkfreight and the water storage basinscould be used for recreation as wellIn many instances the waterwaywould be used for evaporativedesalinization

Mariculture amp Fish FarmingSuch systems could be used to cultivate and raise fish and other forms of marine life to helpmeet the nutritional needs of the worldrsquos people Capable of cultivating a great variety ofmarine life these structures would be equipped to permit the free flow of water throughoutthe system They are designed to be a non-contaminating integral part of the marineenvironment

Through time education altering foodrsquos taste and texture along with the advancements ofnanotechnology and tissue culture we could do away with killing animals

Off Shore LivingOffshore apartment buildings of concrete steel glass titanium and a wide variety of newsynthetic materials could be built to relieve the population pressure in areas like HongKong Tokyo Los Angeles and New York The materials used in such projects would beengineered to withstand the corrosive effects of the harsh ocean environment

Automated Water SystemsEventually with applied totaldesign concepts and mega-hydrological projects we couldminimize the threat of floods anddrought These waterways would bean integrated part of a national floodcontrol system that would hold backfloodwaters which could bereleased during periods of droughtand be used to maintain the watertable

It could also be used for irrigationshipping passengers and bulkfreight and the water storage basinscould be used for recreation as wellIn many instances the waterwaywould be used for evaporativedesalinization

Mariculture amp Fish FarmingSuch systems could be used to cultivate and raise fish and other forms of marine life to helpmeet the nutritional needs of the worldrsquos people Capable of cultivating a great variety ofmarine life these structures would be equipped to permit the free flow of water throughoutthe system They are designed to be a non-contaminating integral part of the marineenvironment

Through time education altering foodrsquos taste and texture along with the advancements ofnanotechnology and tissue culture we could do away with killing animals

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

Off Shore LivingOffshore apartment buildings of concrete steel glass titanium and a wide variety of newsynthetic materials could be built to relieve the population pressure in areas like HongKong Tokyo Los Angeles and New York The materials used in such projects would beengineered to withstand the corrosive effects of the harsh ocean environment

Automated Water SystemsEventually with applied totaldesign concepts and mega-hydrological projects we couldminimize the threat of floods anddrought These waterways would bean integrated part of a national floodcontrol system that would hold backfloodwaters which could bereleased during periods of droughtand be used to maintain the watertable

It could also be used for irrigationshipping passengers and bulkfreight and the water storage basinscould be used for recreation as wellIn many instances the waterwaywould be used for evaporativedesalinization

Mariculture amp Fish FarmingSuch systems could be used to cultivate and raise fish and other forms of marine life to helpmeet the nutritional needs of the worldrsquos people Capable of cultivating a great variety ofmarine life these structures would be equipped to permit the free flow of water throughoutthe system They are designed to be a non-contaminating integral part of the marineenvironment

Through time education altering foodrsquos taste and texture along with the advancements ofnanotechnology and tissue culture we could do away with killing animals

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

What do you think the major changes will be in the near or far future of the world

We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth and at the same time we have the powerto end life as we know it I am a Futurist I cannot predict the actual future-only what it can be if wemanage the Earth and its resources intelligently Where I may differ from other Futurists is that I workon actual blueprints and methodologies which can achieve a sustainable global society in which allwill have a higher standard of living with greater freedom and opportunity If we work toward thisnew global society we can free the world from hunger war and poverty-a world humanity has failedto achieve throughout history If civilization continues on its present course we will simply repeatthe same mistakes all over again

You claim that we can overcome the worldrsquos constant issues such as war poverty andhunger How is this possible Are you working on any kind of solutions about these

My entire lifersquos work and alternative social design are all about solutions to these problems It is notjust patch work to paper over the problems we face but I have always worked on proposals toeliminate the conditions responsible for these problems in the first place To properly answer thisquestion would take volumes I can only recommend my book The Best That Money Canrsquot BuyAlbert Einstein once said We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when wecreated them

A quick look at your resume shows that you are by far an ingenious person havingworked at various and different fields When did you start engaging with Human FactorsEngineering and elaborating on the perspectives of human capability

I did it before it was a recognized profession It began as an approach for making human procedures intechnology more efficient Soon they started getting more production out of people in shorter timesand I realized the advantages served industry rather than people which made me uncomfortable

Interview with Jacque

Youve been compared with DaVinci How does it feel Does this make you feelpressured to meet these expectations

I donrsquot think about this comparison at all I am not pressured to meet any expectation except thatwhich is available to me If people support the project then it will occur If they fail to do so we willcontinue with our current problems It is not up to me All I am able to do at this time is to present apossible alternative The future of sustaining our species depends on the actions we take today

I feel that I have advantages greater than Da Vincirsquos such as access to more information materialsand methods

Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future

I am neither It does not depend on me alone I do all I can to help bring about a positive future whichcould overcome many of the problems the world faces today

Anyone yoursquod like to meet

Any person group or nation that will help promote orsponsor The Venus Project

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

Im trying to give you back yourbrain which they took away fromyou in schools and in yourupbringing

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

Jacque Fresco - Talk in Stockholm 2010

The lecture in Sweden was a success and just a few seats from being sold out

Besides meeting fantastic people from Sweden a friend from Uruguay was there who hadbeen to Venus Florida for one of our Tours

A local science museum had an exhibit about the history of aircraft and space travel Thisbeing of interest to Jacque and myself a group of us went to the exhibit Like many museumswe see the displays did not explain much to the general public

What we found that was significant were a few very small monitors showing the firstattempts to fly I have seen several of these before but here they showed about twentyvariations of early flight attempts

Several people viewing these flight experiments were laughing probably thinking theyshould know better but this is not the case this is how all invention is arrived at throughpeople contributing little by little in order to make progress It started with what looks likevery crude attempts in the beginning because people did not know anything about it Thesewere people who were curious and put their own lives on the line to find out There werethousands of attempts at flight before the Wright Brothers got off the ground People donrsquotreally acknowledge the work of those who went before the Wright Brothers as being just asimportant The Wright Brothers learned what didnrsquot work from all those who went before andtook it from there

Instead of showing these first attempts of early flight on small monitors lost in the middle ofthe room this would be a wonderful teaching exhibit if it showed progressively many aircraftdesigns and what the influences were to arrive at each successive phase This would showchildren especially that there are no great men or women All developments were seriallyevolved and many people sacrified their lives in an attempt to achieve flight Children wouldhave a better understanding of what it takes to advance ideas and the effort that is exerted toarrive at new inventions by Roxanne Meadows

ROXANNE MEADOWS

What is needed is a change inour sense of direction andpurpose

Ms Roxanne Meadows attendedMoore College of Art and received aBFA from Maryland Institute of ArtShe studied technical andarchitectural rendering and modelmaking under Jacque Fresco for 4years Today she is an accomplishedand well-known technical andarchitectural illustrator and modelmaker Ms Meadows is also acompetent Scientific and MedicalIllustrator and she has a private pilotlicense Since 1985 Ms Meadows suppliedarchitectural renderings models anddesign work to major developers andarchitects throughout the countryShe was President and Founder ofArchitectural Arts Inc whichcontinued this service from 1997 to2008 A few of the many clients ofArchitectural Arts Inc are Disney Development Corp - Orlando FLWestinghouse Communities - Naples FLThe Lutgert Companies - Naples FLBonita Bay Properties - Bonita Springs FLAtlantic Gulf Communities ndash Miami FLCRSA Inc - Memphis TennesseeKrystal Key Development Corp- Ft WorthTXWilbraham and Monson Academy -Wilbraham MA She taught Technical and Fine Arts atthe Sebring and Lake Placid ArtCenter and has worked as aComputer Animator for Ken Sneedenand Associates

ROXANNE MEADOWS

What is needed is a change inour sense of direction andpurpose

Ms Roxanne Meadows attendedMoore College of Art and received aBFA from Maryland Institute of ArtShe studied technical andarchitectural rendering and modelmaking under Jacque Fresco for 4years Today she is an accomplishedand well-known technical andarchitectural illustrator and modelmaker Ms Meadows is also acompetent Scientific and MedicalIllustrator and she has a private pilotlicense Since 1985 Ms Meadows suppliedarchitectural renderings models anddesign work to major developers andarchitects throughout the countryShe was President and Founder ofArchitectural Arts Inc whichcontinued this service from 1997 to2008 A few of the many clients ofArchitectural Arts Inc are Disney Development Corp - Orlando FLWestinghouse Communities - Naples FLThe Lutgert Companies - Naples FLBonita Bay Properties - Bonita Springs FLAtlantic Gulf Communities ndash Miami FLCRSA Inc - Memphis TennesseeKrystal Key Development Corp- Ft WorthTXWilbraham and Monson Academy -Wilbraham MA She taught Technical and Fine Arts atthe Sebring and Lake Placid ArtCenter and has worked as aComputer Animator for Ken Sneedenand Associates

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN TBUY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

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ROXANNE MEADOWS

What is needed is a change inour sense of direction andpurpose

Ms Roxanne Meadows attendedMoore College of Art and received aBFA from Maryland Institute of ArtShe studied technical andarchitectural rendering and modelmaking under Jacque Fresco for 4years Today she is an accomplishedand well-known technical andarchitectural illustrator and modelmaker Ms Meadows is also acompetent Scientific and MedicalIllustrator and she has a private pilotlicense Since 1985 Ms Meadows suppliedarchitectural renderings models anddesign work to major developers andarchitects throughout the countryShe was President and Founder ofArchitectural Arts Inc whichcontinued this service from 1997 to2008 A few of the many clients ofArchitectural Arts Inc are Disney Development Corp - Orlando FLWestinghouse Communities - Naples FLThe Lutgert Companies - Naples FLBonita Bay Properties - Bonita Springs FLAtlantic Gulf Communities ndash Miami FLCRSA Inc - Memphis TennesseeKrystal Key Development Corp- Ft WorthTXWilbraham and Monson Academy -Wilbraham MA She taught Technical and Fine Arts atthe Sebring and Lake Placid ArtCenter and has worked as aComputer Animator for Ken Sneedenand Associates

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN TBUY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

BUY IT NOW gt

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN TBUY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

BUY IT NOW gt

Roxanne Meadows is co-founder of The Venus Project with Jacque Fresco and built the 21 acres research and development center in Venus Florida with him She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book The Best That MoneyCant Buy Beyond Politics Poverty amp War and designed the layout of thebook She organized Jacque Frescos writing for the book Designing TheFuture Co-writer of the essay Reinventing Iraq for the book In The Shadowof War a series edited by Arthur B Shostak PhD She was co-writer of theessay Beyond Utopia for the book Utopian Thinking in Sociology Creatingthe Good Society edited and compiled by Arthur B Shostak PhD Roxanne Meadows prepared blueprints models and renderings for variouscity and other proposals presented by The Venus Project over the last 37 years Many of these have appeared in numerousnewspapers and magazines as well as on television in documentariesmovies websites and in blogs She along with Mr Fresco has lectured and conducted seminars throughoutthe world as a futurist presenting the aims ofThe Venus Project

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN TBUY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

BUY IT NOW gt

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY CAN TBUY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

BUY IT NOW gt

BEYOND POLITICS POVERTY AND WAR

THE BEST THAT MONEY

A book byJacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco envisions a global civilization in which scienceand technology are applied with human and environmentalconcern to secure protect and encourage a more humane worldfor all people

This book offers a possible way out of our recurring cycles ofboom and recession famine poverty a declining environmentand territorial conflicts where peace is merely the intervalbetween wars It outlines an attainable humane social designof the near future where human rights are no longer paperproclamations but a way of life

The Best That Money Cant Buy is a challenge to all people towork toward a society in which all of the worlds resourcesbecome the common heritage of all of the earths people It isaccompanied by 75 color photos of Frescos original designswhich illuminate the fulfilling lifestyle of a global Resource-Based Economy

BUY IT NOW gt

What you had to say about the rich and powerful being resistant to such a society in many cases istrue However if they keep using automation in their industries as they have to in order to competemillions of people will be replaced by machines This includes not only the assembly line workersbut also doctors engineers architects and the like As they lose their purchasing power the veryindustries that depend on them can no longer function This will bring an end to the old outwornmonetary system It is not a question of them giving up their industries it is that their greed willeventually render them obsolete

Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earthsresources are held as the common heritage of all of the earths people can we truly say that there isintelligent life on earth

Wouldnt there be resistance from the rich and powerful

FAQ You mentioned economic collapse in your bookDo you believe this is the only way our societycan escape a monetary economy

No government in history has ever planned ahead and directed society into the next phase of socialevolution Established orders want to perpetuate themselves Unfortunately it may take aneconomic breakdown and people becoming disillusioned with their leaders before they will seek analternative social direction Social change was always brought about by economic collapsecorruption in government abuse of the population etc

Governments are generally comprised of businessmen lawyers and other self-appointedindividuals with personal and corporate interest rather than upgrading society as a whole

In the future do you think that the regional differences will still have thegreatest influence as they do today or will these differences disappear

Our problems today are enormous and global in their scope and impact They cannot be solved byany one nation The concept of common good is global in nature but local in implementation

We must start with what we have in common All social systems regardless of political philosophyreligious beliefs or social customs ultimately depend upon natural resources like clean air andwater arable land and the technology and personnel to maintain a high standard of livingThis can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science andtechnology using a global systems approach

When money and self interests are outgrown interaction between nations wont be based on selfinterest but on mutual interest This approach will help eliminate artificial boundaries that separatepeople

What is the single most important aspect of the project

The single most important aspect of the project is the social direction of all nations workingtogether on the restoration of the environment in a Resource-Based Economy The aim is toestablish all of the Earths resources as the common heritage of all of the worlds people This we seeas the only process to end the present cycle of events of war poverty hunger political corruptionand environmental degradation The technology that we present can make it possible for the globalpopulation to obtain a very high standard of living that is higher than ever imagined possible

We could eventually surpass the artificial boundaries that divide people If you fail to grasp thesignificance consider this in the United States when the states joined together the militiasdisappeared at the borders and Americans were free of territorial disputes This same process can beapplied globally where all science and technology are utilized for the benefit of all of Earthsinhabitants

What you had to say about the rich and powerful being resistant to such a society in many cases istrue However if they keep using automation in their industries as they have to in order to competemillions of people will be replaced by machines This includes not only the assembly line workersbut also doctors engineers architects and the like As they lose their purchasing power the veryindustries that depend on them can no longer function This will bring an end to the old outwornmonetary system It is not a question of them giving up their industries it is that their greed willeventually render them obsolete

Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earthsresources are held as the common heritage of all of the earths people can we truly say that there isintelligent life on earth

Wouldnt there be resistance from the rich and powerful

FAQ You mentioned economic collapse in your bookDo you believe this is the only way our societycan escape a monetary economy

No government in history has ever planned ahead and directed society into the next phase of socialevolution Established orders want to perpetuate themselves Unfortunately it may take aneconomic breakdown and people becoming disillusioned with their leaders before they will seek analternative social direction Social change was always brought about by economic collapsecorruption in government abuse of the population etc

Governments are generally comprised of businessmen lawyers and other self-appointedindividuals with personal and corporate interest rather than upgrading society as a whole

In the future do you think that the regional differences will still have thegreatest influence as they do today or will these differences disappear

Our problems today are enormous and global in their scope and impact They cannot be solved byany one nation The concept of common good is global in nature but local in implementation

We must start with what we have in common All social systems regardless of political philosophyreligious beliefs or social customs ultimately depend upon natural resources like clean air andwater arable land and the technology and personnel to maintain a high standard of livingThis can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science andtechnology using a global systems approach

When money and self interests are outgrown interaction between nations wont be based on selfinterest but on mutual interest This approach will help eliminate artificial boundaries that separatepeople

What is the single most important aspect of the project

The single most important aspect of the project is the social direction of all nations workingtogether on the restoration of the environment in a Resource-Based Economy The aim is toestablish all of the Earths resources as the common heritage of all of the worlds people This we seeas the only process to end the present cycle of events of war poverty hunger political corruptionand environmental degradation The technology that we present can make it possible for the globalpopulation to obtain a very high standard of living that is higher than ever imagined possible

We could eventually surpass the artificial boundaries that divide people If you fail to grasp thesignificance consider this in the United States when the states joined together the militiasdisappeared at the borders and Americans were free of territorial disputes This same process can beapplied globally where all science and technology are utilized for the benefit of all of Earthsinhabitants

PARADISE or OBLIVIONDocumentary produced and edited by Roxanne Meadows

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders anddetrimental symptoms caused by our current established system This videopresentation advocates a new socio-economic system which is updated topresent-day knowledge featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer FuturistInventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco which he calls a Resource-BasedEconomy

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods ofpolitics law business or any other establishment notions of human affairsand use the methods of science combined with high technology to provide forthe needs of all the worlds people It is not based on the opinions of the politicaland financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies but on maintaining adynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundancefor all people

Paradise or Oblivion by The Venus Project introduces the viewer to a moreappropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring andholistic approach to benefit human civilization This alternative surpasses theneed for a monetary-based controlled and scarcity-oriented environmentwhich we find ourselves in today

This is NOT the major motion picture that The Venus Project is working towardsbut rather is a 48 minute documentary to introduce the aims and proposals tonew people

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What you had to say about the rich and powerful being resistant to such a society in many cases istrue However if they keep using automation in their industries as they have to in order to competemillions of people will be replaced by machines This includes not only the assembly line workersbut also doctors engineers architects and the like As they lose their purchasing power the veryindustries that depend on them can no longer function This will bring an end to the old outwornmonetary system It is not a question of them giving up their industries it is that their greed willeventually render them obsolete

Only when science and technology are used with human concern in a world in which all of the earthsresources are held as the common heritage of all of the earths people can we truly say that there isintelligent life on earth

Wouldnt there be resistance from the rich and powerful

FAQ You mentioned economic collapse in your bookDo you believe this is the only way our societycan escape a monetary economy

No government in history has ever planned ahead and directed society into the next phase of socialevolution Established orders want to perpetuate themselves Unfortunately it may take aneconomic breakdown and people becoming disillusioned with their leaders before they will seek analternative social direction Social change was always brought about by economic collapsecorruption in government abuse of the population etc

Governments are generally comprised of businessmen lawyers and other self-appointedindividuals with personal and corporate interest rather than upgrading society as a whole

In the future do you think that the regional differences will still have thegreatest influence as they do today or will these differences disappear

Our problems today are enormous and global in their scope and impact They cannot be solved byany one nation The concept of common good is global in nature but local in implementation

We must start with what we have in common All social systems regardless of political philosophyreligious beliefs or social customs ultimately depend upon natural resources like clean air andwater arable land and the technology and personnel to maintain a high standard of livingThis can be accomplished through the intelligent and humane application of science andtechnology using a global systems approach

When money and self interests are outgrown interaction between nations wont be based on selfinterest but on mutual interest This approach will help eliminate artificial boundaries that separatepeople

What is the single most important aspect of the project

The single most important aspect of the project is the social direction of all nations workingtogether on the restoration of the environment in a Resource-Based Economy The aim is toestablish all of the Earths resources as the common heritage of all of the worlds people This we seeas the only process to end the present cycle of events of war poverty hunger political corruptionand environmental degradation The technology that we present can make it possible for the globalpopulation to obtain a very high standard of living that is higher than ever imagined possible

We could eventually surpass the artificial boundaries that divide people If you fail to grasp thesignificance consider this in the United States when the states joined together the militiasdisappeared at the borders and Americans were free of territorial disputes This same process can beapplied globally where all science and technology are utilized for the benefit of all of Earthsinhabitants

PARADISE or OBLIVIONDocumentary produced and edited by Roxanne Meadows

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders anddetrimental symptoms caused by our current established system This videopresentation advocates a new socio-economic system which is updated topresent-day knowledge featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer FuturistInventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco which he calls a Resource-BasedEconomy

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods ofpolitics law business or any other establishment notions of human affairsand use the methods of science combined with high technology to provide forthe needs of all the worlds people It is not based on the opinions of the politicaland financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies but on maintaining adynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundancefor all people

Paradise or Oblivion by The Venus Project introduces the viewer to a moreappropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring andholistic approach to benefit human civilization This alternative surpasses theneed for a monetary-based controlled and scarcity-oriented environmentwhich we find ourselves in today

This is NOT the major motion picture that The Venus Project is working towardsbut rather is a 48 minute documentary to introduce the aims and proposals tonew people

TRAILER

WATCH THE FULL DOCUMENATRY FOR FREE gt

PARADISE or OBLIVIONDocumentary produced and edited by Roxanne Meadows

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders anddetrimental symptoms caused by our current established system This videopresentation advocates a new socio-economic system which is updated topresent-day knowledge featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer FuturistInventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco which he calls a Resource-BasedEconomy

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods ofpolitics law business or any other establishment notions of human affairsand use the methods of science combined with high technology to provide forthe needs of all the worlds people It is not based on the opinions of the politicaland financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies but on maintaining adynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundancefor all people

Paradise or Oblivion by The Venus Project introduces the viewer to a moreappropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring andholistic approach to benefit human civilization This alternative surpasses theneed for a monetary-based controlled and scarcity-oriented environmentwhich we find ourselves in today

This is NOT the major motion picture that The Venus Project is working towardsbut rather is a 48 minute documentary to introduce the aims and proposals tonew people

TRAILER

WATCH THE FULL DOCUMENATRY FOR FREE gt

PARADISE or OBLIVIONDocumentary produced and edited by Roxanne Meadows

This documentary details the root causes of the systemic value disorders anddetrimental symptoms caused by our current established system This videopresentation advocates a new socio-economic system which is updated topresent-day knowledge featuring the life-long work of Social Engineer FuturistInventor and Industrial Designer Jacque Fresco which he calls a Resource-BasedEconomy

The film details the need to outgrow the dated and inefficient methods ofpolitics law business or any other establishment notions of human affairsand use the methods of science combined with high technology to provide forthe needs of all the worlds people It is not based on the opinions of the politicaland financial elite or on illusionary so-called democracies but on maintaining adynamic equilibrium with the planet that could ultimately provide abundancefor all people

Paradise or Oblivion by The Venus Project introduces the viewer to a moreappropriate value system that would be required to enable this caring andholistic approach to benefit human civilization This alternative surpasses theneed for a monetary-based controlled and scarcity-oriented environmentwhich we find ourselves in today

This is NOT the major motion picture that The Venus Project is working towardsbut rather is a 48 minute documentary to introduce the aims and proposals tonew people

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the immaculate pig experimentFrom a conversation with Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco - direct transcription I startedmy work on a design for a global society when Iwas about 17 years of age What I had put onpaper sounded good to me but I said to myselfHow do you know itrsquoll work thatrsquos whatthinking is - talking to yourself nothingmysterious So I said I donrsquot know itrsquoll work but Icertainly am going to try to see if it will Iattended many Ku Klux Klan (KKK) meetings inthe early 1950rsquos got the feel of theorganization and then proceeded to show themthings that would enlighten them I didntcontradict them I showed them things such asthe face of a person and asked the leader of thegroup - who always projected his own valuesinto everything he saw - to see if he could pointout as much detail about the person as possiblejust from the photo As expected he projectedhis values into the image I had on the screen andhe said He looks like a good American a familyman and a god fearing man So then I revealedthe bottom of the picture which I got at the postoffice This person was wanted by the FBI forsubversive action against the United States I didthis to illustrate to them that itrsquos not possible tolook at a photograph of a person or see apersonrsquos face and know what they are likeSometimes you might accidentally hit on sometrue elements but on the whole you would hurtyourself

Next at the Klan meeting I played a record ofa guy talking about aeronautics with an Oxfordaccent and I again asked the leader to tell meabout the person speaking He described him aswhite skinny bold headed man with thickeyeglasses a very smart and educated manThen the image came on later It was a black manraised in England and that confused the entireKKK group So by the time I got to the sixthcharacter he said ldquoJacque I canrsquot rightly sayrdquoOnce he learned to speak that way that was agreat improvement Sure they still hadremnants of their feelings but I modified them ina gentle way until they no longer found theirearlier beliefs viable They began to thinkdifferently but they thought they werechanging themselves I introduced the elements

that changed them

The immaculate pig is an experiment I did inthe early 1930rsquos and I captured it on film Ishowed it to the Klan as well I raised a baby pigin a cage about four feet in diameter it lookedlike a dome and I put a sunken waste container inthe middle of the cage and some scrap papernear the container I anticipated the pig walkingabout would eventually knock the paper in thecontainer because of its position When it fell inthe waste container it hit a microswitch whichdeposits a little bit of food near the pig It tookthe pig about 10 to 15 times knocking the paperin the container before he knew that the paper inthe container caused the food to drop So I thenput a second piece of paper there a little furtheraway He put the first piece in the container andnothing happened He saw the second piece andassociative memory caused him to pick that upand put it in the container then the food wasdispensed Then I pulled the waste containerup

I started with the container counter sunk because it would take me too long to train the pig to pickup the paper and put it in the container but if you start low all you have to do is pick up the wastecontainer once the pig learned to put it in there I put three dirty rags around and the pig proceeded toplace them all in the container Then I put a white jacket on the pig with a red cross and lettering TheImmaculate Pig So he came in this dirty room picked up all the dirty stuff put it in the wastecontainer where it said put waste here The next thing I did was to make a bed for the pig on tworollers similar to a tractor thread so the bedding could roll and I put this same pig in a very confinedenvironment and he walked up and back like a man in prison or any animal in a cage I put a wheel inthe cage and when the pig turned it he was fed Then I connected the wheel around one of the rollersof the bed and when the pig turned it the bedding rotated around the rollers and while underneath itwas cleaned Of course the pig didnrsquot know it had changed the bedsheets or picked up waste he wasjust rewarded for doing it just like any patriotic person fighting for their country

the immaculate pig experimentFrom a conversation with Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco - direct transcription I startedmy work on a design for a global society when Iwas about 17 years of age What I had put onpaper sounded good to me but I said to myselfHow do you know itrsquoll work thatrsquos whatthinking is - talking to yourself nothingmysterious So I said I donrsquot know itrsquoll work but Icertainly am going to try to see if it will Iattended many Ku Klux Klan (KKK) meetings inthe early 1950rsquos got the feel of theorganization and then proceeded to show themthings that would enlighten them I didntcontradict them I showed them things such asthe face of a person and asked the leader of thegroup - who always projected his own valuesinto everything he saw - to see if he could pointout as much detail about the person as possiblejust from the photo As expected he projectedhis values into the image I had on the screen andhe said He looks like a good American a familyman and a god fearing man So then I revealedthe bottom of the picture which I got at the postoffice This person was wanted by the FBI forsubversive action against the United States I didthis to illustrate to them that itrsquos not possible tolook at a photograph of a person or see apersonrsquos face and know what they are likeSometimes you might accidentally hit on sometrue elements but on the whole you would hurtyourself

Next at the Klan meeting I played a record ofa guy talking about aeronautics with an Oxfordaccent and I again asked the leader to tell meabout the person speaking He described him aswhite skinny bold headed man with thickeyeglasses a very smart and educated manThen the image came on later It was a black manraised in England and that confused the entireKKK group So by the time I got to the sixthcharacter he said ldquoJacque I canrsquot rightly sayrdquoOnce he learned to speak that way that was agreat improvement Sure they still hadremnants of their feelings but I modified them ina gentle way until they no longer found theirearlier beliefs viable They began to thinkdifferently but they thought they werechanging themselves I introduced the elements

that changed them

The immaculate pig is an experiment I did inthe early 1930rsquos and I captured it on film Ishowed it to the Klan as well I raised a baby pigin a cage about four feet in diameter it lookedlike a dome and I put a sunken waste container inthe middle of the cage and some scrap papernear the container I anticipated the pig walkingabout would eventually knock the paper in thecontainer because of its position When it fell inthe waste container it hit a microswitch whichdeposits a little bit of food near the pig It tookthe pig about 10 to 15 times knocking the paperin the container before he knew that the paper inthe container caused the food to drop So I thenput a second piece of paper there a little furtheraway He put the first piece in the container andnothing happened He saw the second piece andassociative memory caused him to pick that upand put it in the container then the food wasdispensed Then I pulled the waste containerup

I started with the container counter sunk because it would take me too long to train the pig to pickup the paper and put it in the container but if you start low all you have to do is pick up the wastecontainer once the pig learned to put it in there I put three dirty rags around and the pig proceeded toplace them all in the container Then I put a white jacket on the pig with a red cross and lettering TheImmaculate Pig So he came in this dirty room picked up all the dirty stuff put it in the wastecontainer where it said put waste here The next thing I did was to make a bed for the pig on tworollers similar to a tractor thread so the bedding could roll and I put this same pig in a very confinedenvironment and he walked up and back like a man in prison or any animal in a cage I put a wheel inthe cage and when the pig turned it he was fed Then I connected the wheel around one of the rollersof the bed and when the pig turned it the bedding rotated around the rollers and while underneath itwas cleaned Of course the pig didnrsquot know it had changed the bedsheets or picked up waste he wasjust rewarded for doing it just like any patriotic person fighting for their country

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

the immaculate pig experimentFrom a conversation with Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco - direct transcription I startedmy work on a design for a global society when Iwas about 17 years of age What I had put onpaper sounded good to me but I said to myselfHow do you know itrsquoll work thatrsquos whatthinking is - talking to yourself nothingmysterious So I said I donrsquot know itrsquoll work but Icertainly am going to try to see if it will Iattended many Ku Klux Klan (KKK) meetings inthe early 1950rsquos got the feel of theorganization and then proceeded to show themthings that would enlighten them I didntcontradict them I showed them things such asthe face of a person and asked the leader of thegroup - who always projected his own valuesinto everything he saw - to see if he could pointout as much detail about the person as possiblejust from the photo As expected he projectedhis values into the image I had on the screen andhe said He looks like a good American a familyman and a god fearing man So then I revealedthe bottom of the picture which I got at the postoffice This person was wanted by the FBI forsubversive action against the United States I didthis to illustrate to them that itrsquos not possible tolook at a photograph of a person or see apersonrsquos face and know what they are likeSometimes you might accidentally hit on sometrue elements but on the whole you would hurtyourself

Next at the Klan meeting I played a record ofa guy talking about aeronautics with an Oxfordaccent and I again asked the leader to tell meabout the person speaking He described him aswhite skinny bold headed man with thickeyeglasses a very smart and educated manThen the image came on later It was a black manraised in England and that confused the entireKKK group So by the time I got to the sixthcharacter he said ldquoJacque I canrsquot rightly sayrdquoOnce he learned to speak that way that was agreat improvement Sure they still hadremnants of their feelings but I modified them ina gentle way until they no longer found theirearlier beliefs viable They began to thinkdifferently but they thought they werechanging themselves I introduced the elements

that changed them

The immaculate pig is an experiment I did inthe early 1930rsquos and I captured it on film Ishowed it to the Klan as well I raised a baby pigin a cage about four feet in diameter it lookedlike a dome and I put a sunken waste container inthe middle of the cage and some scrap papernear the container I anticipated the pig walkingabout would eventually knock the paper in thecontainer because of its position When it fell inthe waste container it hit a microswitch whichdeposits a little bit of food near the pig It tookthe pig about 10 to 15 times knocking the paperin the container before he knew that the paper inthe container caused the food to drop So I thenput a second piece of paper there a little furtheraway He put the first piece in the container andnothing happened He saw the second piece andassociative memory caused him to pick that upand put it in the container then the food wasdispensed Then I pulled the waste containerup

I started with the container counter sunk because it would take me too long to train the pig to pickup the paper and put it in the container but if you start low all you have to do is pick up the wastecontainer once the pig learned to put it in there I put three dirty rags around and the pig proceeded toplace them all in the container Then I put a white jacket on the pig with a red cross and lettering TheImmaculate Pig So he came in this dirty room picked up all the dirty stuff put it in the wastecontainer where it said put waste here The next thing I did was to make a bed for the pig on tworollers similar to a tractor thread so the bedding could roll and I put this same pig in a very confinedenvironment and he walked up and back like a man in prison or any animal in a cage I put a wheel inthe cage and when the pig turned it he was fed Then I connected the wheel around one of the rollersof the bed and when the pig turned it the bedding rotated around the rollers and while underneath itwas cleaned Of course the pig didnrsquot know it had changed the bedsheets or picked up waste he wasjust rewarded for doing it just like any patriotic person fighting for their country

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Next I wanted to teach the pig to take a shower So how do you get the pig to take a shower I bent arubber hose like the letter U and mounted it upside-down It was a little bit higher than the height ofthe pig I then put some bamboo strips into the lower section of the U-shape hose and when the pigexited his little room it scratched his back They like that so he went up and back several times Then Iput a jar on top of the U with soapy water and when his back touched the bamboo strips that turnedon the shower

I ran this Immaculate Pig film at the Klan meeting That was the latest thing I showed them theylooked at it with perplexed expressions and they said Jacque I raised me a lot of pigs I aint neverseen no pig that smart How come How come that pigs so smart I said The pig was brought up in aspecial environment where he was rewarded to do all those thingsrdquo They asked ldquoHe keeps the placeclean changes his dirty bed-sheet takes a shower how come that pig knows all that I said No morethan a human Eventually they came up with in their language so excuse me for using these wordsYou mean a nigger acts like a nigger because hes brought up in a nigger environment I saidExactly right if you took a nice Jewish boy and brought him up in Nazi Germany he would become aNazirdquo

Its the environment that shapes the basic values Of course the role models are what Im talkingabout as well If your heroes are pilots that shot down a lot of airplanes a humanist might say Iwonder if that pilot sleeps well at night after shooting down all those planes He sleeps very wellbecause they reward him by pinning a medal on him and when he bombs a village they pin anothermedal on him and put an X on the fuselage for all the villages he burns or planes he shoots down Sohe feels proud

And the people in the concentration camp who turn on the gas chamber normal Jewish peopleask Do you think those people could sleep at night They sleep very well because turning that gaschamber valve to them means getting rid of monsters because this was the attitude they weregiven when they were brought up This is the same attitude the Americanrsquos were taught regardingthe Japanese during WWll We even took American Japanese citizens and put them in our ownconcentration camps So all this business about conscience thats a created thing and you can use itany way you want to People have a guilty conscience because theyre told If you take anything thatdoesnt belong to you this is wrongrdquo A criminal is one who removes an object that belongs to youwithout your permission Well after America won the war we took rockets and airplanes out ofGermany and kidnapped their engineers and brought them here to America

Americans also commit horrific crimes and we bomb innocent people Especially in Iran and inIraq we killed a lot of people that had nothing to do with acts against the USA They had nothing to dowith 9-11 you know We killed a lotthousands of people just because some misinformed personin government was manipulated by others We kill lots of people because it suits our purpose We goto war because they claim Theyre bad evil people or Were going to build a democracy thereThey dont do it to build a democracy These are the lies that are so obvious you wonder whyeverybody doesnt get it because theyre conditioned not to get it They commit these acts for oilcheap labor and for other advantages Once people understand that peoplersquos values are shaped bytheir environment it is difficult to manipulate them

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

This innovative energy-generating productemploys piezoelectric technology to convert thekinetic energy from foot traffic and other vibrationsinto electric energy The circuitry design maximizesthe electronic signal and distributes electricity to itsintended application or battery storage system Arugged flooring product is custom designed aroundthe electronics to protect the sensitive componentsinside Powerleap is among the first of its kind to takeadvantage of the unique properties of piezoelectricmaterials to actually produce usable amounts ofelectricity

Picture being able to scatter hundreds of tinysensors around a building to monitor temperature orhumidity or embedding micro remote wirelesssensors into the painted surface of a bridge tomonitor the stress of the structure 24 hours a day 7days a week Smart dust devices are tiny wirelessmicroelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) that candetect everything from light to vibrations

Thanks to recent breakthroughs in silicon andfabrication techniques these motes couldeventually be the size of a grain of sand though eachwould contain sensors computing circuitsbidirectional wireless communications technologyand a power supply Motes would gather scads ofdata run computations and communicate that

information using two-way band radio betweenmotes at distances approaching 1000 feet

Potential commercial applications are variedranging from catching manufacturing defects bysensing out-of-range vibrations in industrialequipment to tracking patient movements in ahospital room serving as traffic sensors incongested urban areas and monitoring the powerconsumption of household appliances todetermine whether theyre operating at peakefficiency and more

On the power side research is currently under way byUC Berkeleyrsquos Shad Roundy on fuel cells that canldquoscavengerdquo energy to make smart-dust devices runlonger This includes drawing off the ambientvibration energy generated by an industrialmachine or gathering energy from low levels of light

A solar roadway is a road surface that generateselectricity by solar photovoltaics One currentproposal is for 12 ft x 12 ft (4 m x 4 m) panelsincluding solar panels and LED signage that can bedriven on The concept involves replacing highwaysroads parking lots driveways and sidewalks withsuch a system

It is claimed that doing so across the UnitedStates of America could generate three times asmuch electricity as is needed to power thatcountry and almost enough to power the worldThe Solar Roadway is a series of structurally-engineered solar panels that are driven upon Theidea is to replace all current petroleum-basedasphalt roads parking lots and driveways withSolar Road Panels that collect energy to be usedby our homes and businesses

Our ultimate goal is to be able to store excessenergy in or alongside the Solar Roadways Thisrenewable energy replaces the need for thecurrent fossil fuels used for the generation ofelectricity This in turn cuts greenhouse gasesliterally in half

An organisation called Solar Roadways in IdahoUSA has been awarded a $100000 researchcontract by the US Department of Transportationto prototype Solar Road Panels

Imagine how fast this technology could bedeveloped if the question wasnt one of moneybut one of available resources

Intelligent CitiesPowerleap

CUSTOMIZABLE SURFACE

LED OPTIONCUSTOMIZABLE SHELL

PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORPLUG

by Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Building Information Modelling

In the ongoing battle to maintain the competitiveedge in our current monetary based and dare I sayuneconomic system where companies arecontinuously looking for ways to maximize profitsarchitects surveyors civil engineers and contractorsface ever tighter timelines and budgets To completelarge scale construction projects on time withinbudget and to specification they need to workaccurately and efficiently

Two recent innovations in technology are laying thefoundation for a completely new standard ofautomation in many of the daily construction taskswhich until recently were thought to be impossible toautomate

- Global Positioning System machine control (GPS)- Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Engineers contractors and surveyors are now able toautomate much of the construction processimproving overall productivity and accuracycompleting construction projects faster moreefficiently and within budget

BIM software such as Autodesk Revit allowsengineers to develop a highly accurate digital 3Dmodel of a construction project Contractors can thenload this model directly into the on-board computerof a bulldozer or excavator with GPS systems

installed Then using a combination of GPS and on-site laser-based positioning systems the machineoperator compares their real-time location with thecurrent site model and digs scrapes flattens and fillseither automatically or using the on-board guidancesystems to achieve levels of accuracy that have untilnow been impossible even with the most skilledhuman labor

Together these two developments are transformingthe age old conception about construction being ajob for skilled manual labor and are laying thefoundations for a revolution of constructionautomation one that will change forever the globalconstruction industry just as digital prefabrication ischanging architectural design and as automobilesphased out the stage coach

Currently human operators are still required to drivethe machines and to manually adjust their course tothe directions obtained through the GPS systemswhilst the onboard GPS system operates themachines blades and buckets automatically to thelevels obtained from the BIM model data However asour technology improves one can easily envision atime in the not so distant future where even this canbe automated using on board sensors cameras andextensional devices to fully automate this process

The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is aninternational network composed of American andRussian satellite systems The GPS systemtriangulates the exact location of a constantlymoving construction vehicle using threecomponents satellites a fixed on-site base stationand a vehicle mounted GPS receiver

The satellites transmit radio signals to the Earthincluding any positional errors which are thenreceived via an on-site base station and variousvehicle mounted receivers The base stationperforms error corrections and triangulates the datareceived into a real-time location up to 20 times persecond The base station then transmits these real-time error corrections to the vehicles receiverswhich allow the machines to constantly generatecoordinates that its onboard computer uses toreference against the BIM data and adjust thevehiclersquos blades and buckets automatically

GPS machine control yields levels of horizontalaccuracy to within a centimetre 3D highway and siteconstruction projects however also requireelevation precision Many contractors use lasermachine control systems consisting of tripod-mounted lasers that send out a horizontal beam in a360-degree arc Receiving-prisms on theconstruction vehicles notify operators when they

have reached the correct elevation enabling them toachieve an accuracy of millimetres

GPS machine control systems are currently availableas either ldquoindicaterdquo or ldquoautomatic systemsrdquo Indicatemachines use lights sounds or internal HUDsystems to guide the machine operator as theymanually move the vehicles tools to a particulargrade or elevation Constant feedback from thesystem allows the operator to place the cutting edge- or bucket - properly with a high level of accuracy Inthese relatively inexpensive systems the operatormaintains full control of the equipment Howeverthe latest innovations though currently stillrequiring a manual driver allow automatic machineswith sophisticated onboard computers and electro-mechanical assemblies to operate semi-autonomously

Future GPS machine control systems could achieveeven greater levels of productivity than can beachieved using traditional methods and be fullyautomated This is a trend that is sure to followthroughout the entire industry as more and moreinnovative approaches to construction automationare developed and implemented potentially savingmany hundreds of thousands of construction relatedinjuries and deaths globally each year

What is GPS and how does it workby Andrew Buxton

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

Building Information Modelling

The traditional construction methods employedglobally are a time-consuming expensive and laborintensive process where engineers CAD techniciansand CAD coordinators create electronic drawings of2D plans sections elevations and profiles whichthey then print on paper When contractors want to re-use that information in a Machine Control System(MCS) they would have to go through the task ofdeveloping the 2D electronic drawings into a digital3D format finally converting this format into a MCS-required format

This is an extremely slow labor-intensive processalbeit many times more efficient than the pre-1980rsquoswhen these drawings would have been hand drawntaking many times the number of man-hours ofcurrent draughting with Computer-aided designsystems

Yet this inefficient method is employed as theindustry standard globally even with its many provencost-efficiency issues such as the requirement ofhaving to repeat this entire process from scratch if thedesigners needed to change the design mid-cycle

BIMs such as Autodesk Revit are collaborativesoftware environments that enable the entire designand construction team involved in a project to sharereliable up-to-date fully coordinated information atevery stage of a projects life-cycle from designthrough to construction and the end user

By giving design and construction teams the abilityto bypass the intermediate steps involved intransferring design data from engineers toconstruction equipment in the field BIM GPSmachine control systems enable machine operatorsto perform much faster and more accurately

With traditional methods when an engineerrequests a change the on-site surveyors mustmanually remove or reposition stakes from theground which can take a considerable amount oftime whilst costly machines and workers remain idleuntil this process is complete

With BIM enabled GPS machine control systems this

process is greatly improved as the systemautomatically updates the onboard model in theconstruction vehicle The operator simply begins towork on the revised data set confident that if themodel is right the site work will be too

With GPS machine control many of the things thatwould normally be done manually can now becompletely automated and with much higherprecision This increased level of accuracy not onlydelivers projects faster and more efficiently but alsoavoids wasted human labor and resources

Conclusion

As detailed in the following quote from Tim TometichGPS division manager McAninch Corporation

ldquoTraditional processes of paper plans stakeoutsheets and grade stakes used to take up to a week toimplement Now with GPS machine control and 3Dmodels from designers that same size project cantake hours This allows us to reduce fuelconsumption idle time air pollution includinggreenhouse gas emissions and material waste whileproviding our clients with a more accurate productWe believe that starting from 3D models to drive theconstruction process is the way of the futurerdquo

If we follow the train of thought and the trends incurrent automation implementation around theglobe in agriculture manufacturing distributionlogistics and recently the service sector it is clear thatwe are approaching a time where all civil engineerssurveyors and contractors will eventually becompletely reliant on GPS machine control systemscombined with Building Information Modelling fromdesign through to construction This will have adramatic effect on the future of the constructionindustry and in a later article we will touch on theimpact of technological unemployment which is theinevitable outcome of automation in any industryWe will also discuss viable attainable solutions tothe many negative effects on our political and socio-economic system

RIOTS ACCROSS THE WORLD DUE TO ANOBSOLETE MONETARY SYSTEM

Swedish riots which began May 19 ended up in four nights of violence

Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest sparked by long-term youthunemployment and poverty spreads

Hundreds of youths burnt down a restaurant set fireto more than 30 cars and attacked police during afourth night of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholmshocking a country that dodged the worst of thefinancial crisis but failed to solve youthunemployment and resentment among asylumseekers

Violence spread across the Swedish capital onWednesday as large numbers of young peoplerampaged through the suburbs throwing stonesbreaking windows and destroying cars Police in thesouthern city of Malmo said two cars had been setablaze Media reports said a police station was set onfire in Stockholms southern suburb of Raringgsvedwhere several people were also detained No onewas hurt Rioters defied a call for calm from the

countrys Prime Minister going on the rampage afternightfall damaging stores schools a police stationand an arts and crafts centre in the four days ofviolence I think there is a feeling that we need to bein more places tonight said Towe Haggspokeswoman for Stockholm police One policeofficer was injured in the latest attacks and fivepeople were arrested for attempted arson SelcukCeken who works at a youth centre in the district ofHagsatra said 40-50 youths threw stones at policeand smashed windows before running away

He said the rioters were in their 20s and appeared tobe well-organized Its difficult to say why theyredoing this he said Maybe its anger at the law andorder forces maybe its anger at their own personalsituation such as unemployment or having nowhereto live

The disturbances appear to have been sparked bythe police killing a 69-year-old man wielding amachete in the suburb of Husby earlier this monthwhich prompted accusations of police brutality Theriots then spread to other poor Stockholm suburbs

We see a society that is becoming increasinglydivided and where the gaps both socially andeconomically are becoming larger said Rami Al-khamisi Co-Founder of Megafonen a group thatworks for social change in the suburbs And thepeople out here are being hit the hardest hellip we haveinstitutional racism The reason is very simpleUnemployment the housing situation disrespectfrom police said Rouzbeh Djalaie Editor of NorraSidan newspaper It just takes something to start ariot and that was the shooting

Djalaie said youths were often stopped by police inthe streets for identity checks During the riots hesaid some police called local youths apesThe TV pictures of blazing cars has shocked a countryproud of its reputation for social justice as well as its

hospitality towards refugees from war andrepression I understand why many people who livein these suburbs and in Husby are worried upsetangry and concerned said the Justice MinisterBeatrice Ask Social exclusion is a very serious causeof many problems we understand that

After decades of practising the Swedish model ofgenerous welfare benefits Stockholm has reducedthe role of the state since the 1990s spurring thefastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECDeconomy While average living standards are stillamong the highest in Europe successivegovernments have failed to substantially reducelong-term youth unemployment and poverty whichhave affected immigrant communities worst

Around 15 of the population is foreign-born andunemployment among these stands at 16compared with 6 for native Swedes according toOECD data Youth unemployment in Husby at 6 istwice the overall average across the capital

RIOTS ACCROSS THE WORLD DUE TO ANOBSOLETE MONETARY SYSTEM

Swedish riots which began May 19 ended up in four nights of violence

Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest sparked by long-term youthunemployment and poverty spreads

Hundreds of youths burnt down a restaurant set fireto more than 30 cars and attacked police during afourth night of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholmshocking a country that dodged the worst of thefinancial crisis but failed to solve youthunemployment and resentment among asylumseekers

Violence spread across the Swedish capital onWednesday as large numbers of young peoplerampaged through the suburbs throwing stonesbreaking windows and destroying cars Police in thesouthern city of Malmo said two cars had been setablaze Media reports said a police station was set onfire in Stockholms southern suburb of Raringgsvedwhere several people were also detained No onewas hurt Rioters defied a call for calm from the

countrys Prime Minister going on the rampage afternightfall damaging stores schools a police stationand an arts and crafts centre in the four days ofviolence I think there is a feeling that we need to bein more places tonight said Towe Haggspokeswoman for Stockholm police One policeofficer was injured in the latest attacks and fivepeople were arrested for attempted arson SelcukCeken who works at a youth centre in the district ofHagsatra said 40-50 youths threw stones at policeand smashed windows before running away

He said the rioters were in their 20s and appeared tobe well-organized Its difficult to say why theyredoing this he said Maybe its anger at the law andorder forces maybe its anger at their own personalsituation such as unemployment or having nowhereto live

The disturbances appear to have been sparked bythe police killing a 69-year-old man wielding amachete in the suburb of Husby earlier this monthwhich prompted accusations of police brutality Theriots then spread to other poor Stockholm suburbs

We see a society that is becoming increasinglydivided and where the gaps both socially andeconomically are becoming larger said Rami Al-khamisi Co-Founder of Megafonen a group thatworks for social change in the suburbs And thepeople out here are being hit the hardest hellip we haveinstitutional racism The reason is very simpleUnemployment the housing situation disrespectfrom police said Rouzbeh Djalaie Editor of NorraSidan newspaper It just takes something to start ariot and that was the shooting

Djalaie said youths were often stopped by police inthe streets for identity checks During the riots hesaid some police called local youths apesThe TV pictures of blazing cars has shocked a countryproud of its reputation for social justice as well as its

hospitality towards refugees from war andrepression I understand why many people who livein these suburbs and in Husby are worried upsetangry and concerned said the Justice MinisterBeatrice Ask Social exclusion is a very serious causeof many problems we understand that

After decades of practising the Swedish model ofgenerous welfare benefits Stockholm has reducedthe role of the state since the 1990s spurring thefastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECDeconomy While average living standards are stillamong the highest in Europe successivegovernments have failed to substantially reducelong-term youth unemployment and poverty whichhave affected immigrant communities worst

Around 15 of the population is foreign-born andunemployment among these stands at 16compared with 6 for native Swedes according toOECD data Youth unemployment in Husby at 6 istwice the overall average across the capital

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riotsrepresented a gigantic failure of governmentpolicies which had underpinned the rise of ghettosin the suburbs

As unemployment has grown the anti-immigrantSweden Democrats party has risen to third in pollsahead of a general election due next year reflectingmany voters worries that immigrants may be partlyto blame While many of the immigrant populationare from Nordic neighbors closely tied to Sweden bylanguage or culture the debate has tended to focuson poor asylum seekers from distant war zones

Out of a total 103000 immigrants last year 43900were asylum seekers almost 50 up from 2011Nearly half of these were refugees from fighting inSyria Afghanistan or Somalia and will get at leasttemporary residency

Among 44 industrialised countries Sweden ranksfourth in the total number of asylum seekers andsecond relative to its population according to UnitedNations figures Policing in Stockholm has alreadybeen the focus of controversy this year withallegations that police were picking out darker-skinned immigrants for identity checks on subwaytrains

More riots in Brazil Turkey and Indonesia (JUN 17)

Its been a very bad year for the worlds hottest emerging markets There are two big trends being cited for that One is the slowdown in commodities and China which is having a ripple effect for growth among manyof the export-oriented commodity economies The other factor is the rise of the dollar and US interest rates which are causing investment flows toreverse and leave these hot markets But in addition to all that were seeing instability grow Theres obviously the riots in Turkey which have been going on for weeks now South Africa has been dealing with mining protests all year Brazil has lately seen riots in part due to an increase in bus fares And now Indonesia is seeing protests and some rioting thanks to a planned fuel price increase According to AP the parliament is expected to rescind a subsidy that will result in a 33 increase in at-the-pump prices

source businessinsider gt South Africa gt Brazil gt Indonesia gt

source guardiannews gt

The Venus Projects response to riots

The Venus Project recognizes that riots are due to starvation wages long workinghours no jobs higher prices limited access to the necessities of life deprivationpollution of the environment unregulated detrimental business practices and little tono hope for the future Social unrest is an inevitable result of no action on the part of thepolitical leaders to relieve these conditions Politicians tend to serve the wealthy andneglect the rest Without a well-informed public it is difficult to overcome mostgovernmental problems as the media schools churches and entertainment almostalways upholds the existing institutions

While The Venus Project understands the reasons for peoplersquos discontent we do not feelthat rioting will solve these problems Instead we propose converting this frustrationinto a working alternative to eliminate the underlining reasons for the social unrest Weinvite you to learn more about how The Venus Project addresses the root causes of socialturmoil and advocates a way of life that bypasses the need for protests It serves the wellbeing of all people and protects the environment

RIOTS ACCROSS THE WORLD DUE TO ANOBSOLETE MONETARY SYSTEM

Swedish riots which began May 19 ended up in four nights of violence

Police attacked and cars torched in Stockholm suburbs as unrest sparked by long-term youthunemployment and poverty spreads

Hundreds of youths burnt down a restaurant set fireto more than 30 cars and attacked police during afourth night of rioting in the suburbs of Stockholmshocking a country that dodged the worst of thefinancial crisis but failed to solve youthunemployment and resentment among asylumseekers

Violence spread across the Swedish capital onWednesday as large numbers of young peoplerampaged through the suburbs throwing stonesbreaking windows and destroying cars Police in thesouthern city of Malmo said two cars had been setablaze Media reports said a police station was set onfire in Stockholms southern suburb of Raringgsvedwhere several people were also detained No onewas hurt Rioters defied a call for calm from the

countrys Prime Minister going on the rampage afternightfall damaging stores schools a police stationand an arts and crafts centre in the four days ofviolence I think there is a feeling that we need to bein more places tonight said Towe Haggspokeswoman for Stockholm police One policeofficer was injured in the latest attacks and fivepeople were arrested for attempted arson SelcukCeken who works at a youth centre in the district ofHagsatra said 40-50 youths threw stones at policeand smashed windows before running away

He said the rioters were in their 20s and appeared tobe well-organized Its difficult to say why theyredoing this he said Maybe its anger at the law andorder forces maybe its anger at their own personalsituation such as unemployment or having nowhereto live

The disturbances appear to have been sparked bythe police killing a 69-year-old man wielding amachete in the suburb of Husby earlier this monthwhich prompted accusations of police brutality Theriots then spread to other poor Stockholm suburbs

We see a society that is becoming increasinglydivided and where the gaps both socially andeconomically are becoming larger said Rami Al-khamisi Co-Founder of Megafonen a group thatworks for social change in the suburbs And thepeople out here are being hit the hardest hellip we haveinstitutional racism The reason is very simpleUnemployment the housing situation disrespectfrom police said Rouzbeh Djalaie Editor of NorraSidan newspaper It just takes something to start ariot and that was the shooting

Djalaie said youths were often stopped by police inthe streets for identity checks During the riots hesaid some police called local youths apesThe TV pictures of blazing cars has shocked a countryproud of its reputation for social justice as well as its

hospitality towards refugees from war andrepression I understand why many people who livein these suburbs and in Husby are worried upsetangry and concerned said the Justice MinisterBeatrice Ask Social exclusion is a very serious causeof many problems we understand that

After decades of practising the Swedish model ofgenerous welfare benefits Stockholm has reducedthe role of the state since the 1990s spurring thefastest growth in inequality of any advanced OECDeconomy While average living standards are stillamong the highest in Europe successivegovernments have failed to substantially reducelong-term youth unemployment and poverty whichhave affected immigrant communities worst

Around 15 of the population is foreign-born andunemployment among these stands at 16compared with 6 for native Swedes according toOECD data Youth unemployment in Husby at 6 istwice the overall average across the capital

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riotsrepresented a gigantic failure of governmentpolicies which had underpinned the rise of ghettosin the suburbs

As unemployment has grown the anti-immigrantSweden Democrats party has risen to third in pollsahead of a general election due next year reflectingmany voters worries that immigrants may be partlyto blame While many of the immigrant populationare from Nordic neighbors closely tied to Sweden bylanguage or culture the debate has tended to focuson poor asylum seekers from distant war zones

Out of a total 103000 immigrants last year 43900were asylum seekers almost 50 up from 2011Nearly half of these were refugees from fighting inSyria Afghanistan or Somalia and will get at leasttemporary residency

Among 44 industrialised countries Sweden ranksfourth in the total number of asylum seekers andsecond relative to its population according to UnitedNations figures Policing in Stockholm has alreadybeen the focus of controversy this year withallegations that police were picking out darker-skinned immigrants for identity checks on subwaytrains

More riots in Brazil Turkey and Indonesia (JUN 17)

Its been a very bad year for the worlds hottest emerging markets There are two big trends being cited for that One is the slowdown in commodities and China which is having a ripple effect for growth among manyof the export-oriented commodity economies The other factor is the rise of the dollar and US interest rates which are causing investment flows toreverse and leave these hot markets But in addition to all that were seeing instability grow Theres obviously the riots in Turkey which have been going on for weeks now South Africa has been dealing with mining protests all year Brazil has lately seen riots in part due to an increase in bus fares And now Indonesia is seeing protests and some rioting thanks to a planned fuel price increase According to AP the parliament is expected to rescind a subsidy that will result in a 33 increase in at-the-pump prices

source businessinsider gt South Africa gt Brazil gt Indonesia gt

source guardiannews gt

The Venus Projects response to riots

The Venus Project recognizes that riots are due to starvation wages long workinghours no jobs higher prices limited access to the necessities of life deprivationpollution of the environment unregulated detrimental business practices and little tono hope for the future Social unrest is an inevitable result of no action on the part of thepolitical leaders to relieve these conditions Politicians tend to serve the wealthy andneglect the rest Without a well-informed public it is difficult to overcome mostgovernmental problems as the media schools churches and entertainment almostalways upholds the existing institutions

While The Venus Project understands the reasons for peoplersquos discontent we do not feelthat rioting will solve these problems Instead we propose converting this frustrationinto a working alternative to eliminate the underlining reasons for the social unrest Weinvite you to learn more about how The Venus Project addresses the root causes of socialturmoil and advocates a way of life that bypasses the need for protests It serves the wellbeing of all people and protects the environment

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riotsrepresented a gigantic failure of governmentpolicies which had underpinned the rise of ghettosin the suburbs

As unemployment has grown the anti-immigrantSweden Democrats party has risen to third in pollsahead of a general election due next year reflectingmany voters worries that immigrants may be partlyto blame While many of the immigrant populationare from Nordic neighbors closely tied to Sweden bylanguage or culture the debate has tended to focuson poor asylum seekers from distant war zones

Out of a total 103000 immigrants last year 43900were asylum seekers almost 50 up from 2011Nearly half of these were refugees from fighting inSyria Afghanistan or Somalia and will get at leasttemporary residency

Among 44 industrialised countries Sweden ranksfourth in the total number of asylum seekers andsecond relative to its population according to UnitedNations figures Policing in Stockholm has alreadybeen the focus of controversy this year withallegations that police were picking out darker-skinned immigrants for identity checks on subwaytrains

More riots in Brazil Turkey and Indonesia (JUN 17)

Its been a very bad year for the worlds hottest emerging markets There are two big trends being cited for that One is the slowdown in commodities and China which is having a ripple effect for growth among manyof the export-oriented commodity economies The other factor is the rise of the dollar and US interest rates which are causing investment flows toreverse and leave these hot markets But in addition to all that were seeing instability grow Theres obviously the riots in Turkey which have been going on for weeks now South Africa has been dealing with mining protests all year Brazil has lately seen riots in part due to an increase in bus fares And now Indonesia is seeing protests and some rioting thanks to a planned fuel price increase According to AP the parliament is expected to rescind a subsidy that will result in a 33 increase in at-the-pump prices

source businessinsider gt South Africa gt Brazil gt Indonesia gt

source guardiannews gt

The Venus Projects response to riots

The Venus Project recognizes that riots are due to starvation wages long workinghours no jobs higher prices limited access to the necessities of life deprivationpollution of the environment unregulated detrimental business practices and little tono hope for the future Social unrest is an inevitable result of no action on the part of thepolitical leaders to relieve these conditions Politicians tend to serve the wealthy andneglect the rest Without a well-informed public it is difficult to overcome mostgovernmental problems as the media schools churches and entertainment almostalways upholds the existing institutions

While The Venus Project understands the reasons for peoplersquos discontent we do not feelthat rioting will solve these problems Instead we propose converting this frustrationinto a working alternative to eliminate the underlining reasons for the social unrest Weinvite you to learn more about how The Venus Project addresses the root causes of socialturmoil and advocates a way of life that bypasses the need for protests It serves the wellbeing of all people and protects the environment

The left-leaning tabloid Aftonbladet said the riotsrepresented a gigantic failure of governmentpolicies which had underpinned the rise of ghettosin the suburbs

As unemployment has grown the anti-immigrantSweden Democrats party has risen to third in pollsahead of a general election due next year reflectingmany voters worries that immigrants may be partlyto blame While many of the immigrant populationare from Nordic neighbors closely tied to Sweden bylanguage or culture the debate has tended to focuson poor asylum seekers from distant war zones

Out of a total 103000 immigrants last year 43900were asylum seekers almost 50 up from 2011Nearly half of these were refugees from fighting inSyria Afghanistan or Somalia and will get at leasttemporary residency

Among 44 industrialised countries Sweden ranksfourth in the total number of asylum seekers andsecond relative to its population according to UnitedNations figures Policing in Stockholm has alreadybeen the focus of controversy this year withallegations that police were picking out darker-skinned immigrants for identity checks on subwaytrains

More riots in Brazil Turkey and Indonesia (JUN 17)

Its been a very bad year for the worlds hottest emerging markets There are two big trends being cited for that One is the slowdown in commodities and China which is having a ripple effect for growth among manyof the export-oriented commodity economies The other factor is the rise of the dollar and US interest rates which are causing investment flows toreverse and leave these hot markets But in addition to all that were seeing instability grow Theres obviously the riots in Turkey which have been going on for weeks now South Africa has been dealing with mining protests all year Brazil has lately seen riots in part due to an increase in bus fares And now Indonesia is seeing protests and some rioting thanks to a planned fuel price increase According to AP the parliament is expected to rescind a subsidy that will result in a 33 increase in at-the-pump prices

source businessinsider gt South Africa gt Brazil gt Indonesia gt

source guardiannews gt

The Venus Projects response to riots

The Venus Project recognizes that riots are due to starvation wages long workinghours no jobs higher prices limited access to the necessities of life deprivationpollution of the environment unregulated detrimental business practices and little tono hope for the future Social unrest is an inevitable result of no action on the part of thepolitical leaders to relieve these conditions Politicians tend to serve the wealthy andneglect the rest Without a well-informed public it is difficult to overcome mostgovernmental problems as the media schools churches and entertainment almostalways upholds the existing institutions

While The Venus Project understands the reasons for peoplersquos discontent we do not feelthat rioting will solve these problems Instead we propose converting this frustrationinto a working alternative to eliminate the underlining reasons for the social unrest Weinvite you to learn more about how The Venus Project addresses the root causes of socialturmoil and advocates a way of life that bypasses the need for protests It serves the wellbeing of all people and protects the environment

NEWS

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Graphene Wonder Material That Could Change The World |

news about graphene gt

plastic containers that keep food fresh for weeks transparent conductive coatings for solar cells anddisplays stronger wind turbines stronger medical implants improved conductivity of materials high-power high-frequency electronic devices artificial membranes for separating two liquid reservoirsadvancements in touchscreens LCDs OLEDs graphene nanoribbons that could be a way to constructballistic transistors and nanogaps in graphene sheets that may potentially provide a new technique forrapid DNA sequencing

Graphene breakthroughs and new uses of this material are emerging on a weekly basis so when can weexpect to see the technology being widely used Specialists say it normally takes about 20 years for newtechnologies to become mainstream but with graphene things are moving faster than ever We can expectquite soon to have smartphones with battery capacities that are ten times larger than they currently arecharging in less than one minute plus many more wonders created by this extraordinary material

They look like normal pills oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin But ifyour doctor writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant futureyou might hear a new twist on an old clicheacute ldquoTake two of these ingestiblecomputers and they will e-mail me in the morningrdquo

Although these tiny devices are not yet mainstream some people on thecutting edge are already swallowing them to monitor a range of health data andwirelessly share this information with a doctor

ldquoYou will mdash voluntarily I might add mdash take a pill which you think of as a pill but isin fact a microscopic robot which will monitor your systemsrdquo and wirelesslytransmit what is happening Eric E Schmidt the Executive Chairman of Googlesaid last fall at a company conference ldquoIf it makes the difference betweenhealth and death yoursquore going to want this thingrdquo

Welcome Robot Overlords Please Donrsquot Fire UsSmart machines probably wonrsquot kill us allmdashbut theyrsquoll definitely take our jobs and sooner than you think

This is a story about the future Not the unhappy future the one where climate change turns the planet into acinder or we all die in a global nuclear war This is the happy version Itrsquos the one where computers keep gettingsmarter and smarter and clever engineers keep building better and better robots By 2040 computers thesize of a softball are as smart as human beings Smarter in fact Plus theyrsquore computers They never get tiredtheyrsquore never ill-tempered they never make mistakes and they have instant access to all of humanknowledge

read it all gt

Technological wonders of the month

- Mouse cloned from drop of blood

- A global quantum network

- Neurala to turn robots into lsquoadaptive learning beingsrsquo

- The lsquoInternet of carsrsquo is approaching a crossroads

- 3D-printing miniaturized medical implants compact electronics tiny robots and more

- Measuring the human pulse from tiny head movements to help diagnose cardiac disease

see a visualisation of exponential growth gt

The result is paradise Global warming is a problem of the past becausecomputers have figured out how to generate limitless amounts of greenenergy and intelligent robots have tirelessly built the infrastructure todeliver it to our homes No one needs to work anymore Robots can doeverything humans can do and they do it uncomplainingly 24 hours a daySome things remain scarcemdashbeachfront property in Malibu originalRembrandtsmdashbut thanks to super-efficient use of natural resources andmassive recycling scarcity of ordinary consumer goods is a thing of the pastOur days are spent however we please perhaps in study perhaps playingvideo games Itrsquos up to us

Maybe you think Irsquom pulling your leg here Or being archly ironic After all thisdoes have a bit of a rose-colored tint to it doesnrsquot it Like something from TheJetsons or the cover of Wired That would hardly be a surprising reactionComputer scientists have been predicting the imminent rise of machineintelligence since at least 1956 when the Dartmouth Summer ResearchProject on Artificial Intelligence gave the field its name and there are only somany times you can cry wolf Today a full seven decades after the birth of thecomputer all we have are iPhones Microsoft Word and in-dash navigationYou could be excused for thinking that computers that truly match thehuman brain are a ridiculous pipe dream

But theyrsquore not Itrsquos true that wersquove made far slower progress toward real artificial intelligence than we oncethought but thatrsquos for a very simple and very human reason Early computer scientists grosslyunderestimated the power of the human brain and the difficulty of emulating one It turns out that this is avery very hard problem sort of like filling up Lake Michigan one drop at a time In fact not just sort of like Itrsquosexactly like filling up Lake Michigan one drop at a time

by Tio

Imagine a material one atom thick that can significantly improve the strengthconductivity and durability of materials Furthermore it could cost the same toproduce and implement these things from scratch as is would cost to replace thecurrent materials in use Graphene was isolated in 2004 and since thenscientists have discovered that it retains some amazing properties Some say thatit will be heralded as one of the materials that will literally change our lives in the21st century

Some of the wonders this material could help to createSmartphones that can charge in 20 seconds lighter aircraft and satellitesreplacing silicon in transistors embedding the material in plastics to enablethem to conduct electricity graphene-based sensors that could detectdangerous molecules plastics that are stiffer stronger and lighter leak-tight

Disruptions Medicine That Monitors You

NEWS

read it all gt

Graphene Wonder Material That Could Change The World |

news about graphene gt

plastic containers that keep food fresh for weeks transparent conductive coatings for solar cells anddisplays stronger wind turbines stronger medical implants improved conductivity of materials high-power high-frequency electronic devices artificial membranes for separating two liquid reservoirsadvancements in touchscreens LCDs OLEDs graphene nanoribbons that could be a way to constructballistic transistors and nanogaps in graphene sheets that may potentially provide a new technique forrapid DNA sequencing

Graphene breakthroughs and new uses of this material are emerging on a weekly basis so when can weexpect to see the technology being widely used Specialists say it normally takes about 20 years for newtechnologies to become mainstream but with graphene things are moving faster than ever We can expectquite soon to have smartphones with battery capacities that are ten times larger than they currently arecharging in less than one minute plus many more wonders created by this extraordinary material

They look like normal pills oblong and a little smaller than a daily vitamin But ifyour doctor writes a prescription for these pills in the not-too-distant futureyou might hear a new twist on an old clicheacute ldquoTake two of these ingestiblecomputers and they will e-mail me in the morningrdquo

Although these tiny devices are not yet mainstream some people on thecutting edge are already swallowing them to monitor a range of health data andwirelessly share this information with a doctor

ldquoYou will mdash voluntarily I might add mdash take a pill which you think of as a pill but isin fact a microscopic robot which will monitor your systemsrdquo and wirelesslytransmit what is happening Eric E Schmidt the Executive Chairman of Googlesaid last fall at a company conference ldquoIf it makes the difference betweenhealth and death yoursquore going to want this thingrdquo

Welcome Robot Overlords Please Donrsquot Fire UsSmart machines probably wonrsquot kill us allmdashbut theyrsquoll definitely take our jobs and sooner than you think

This is a story about the future Not the unhappy future the one where climate change turns the planet into acinder or we all die in a global nuclear war This is the happy version Itrsquos the one where computers keep gettingsmarter and smarter and clever engineers keep building better and better robots By 2040 computers thesize of a softball are as smart as human beings Smarter in fact Plus theyrsquore computers They never get tiredtheyrsquore never ill-tempered they never make mistakes and they have instant access to all of humanknowledge

read it all gt

Technological wonders of the month

- Mouse cloned from drop of blood

- A global quantum network

- Neurala to turn robots into lsquoadaptive learning beingsrsquo

- The lsquoInternet of carsrsquo is approaching a crossroads

- 3D-printing miniaturized medical implants compact electronics tiny robots and more

- Measuring the human pulse from tiny head movements to help diagnose cardiac disease

see a visualisation of exponential growth gt

The result is paradise Global warming is a problem of the past becausecomputers have figured out how to generate limitless amounts of greenenergy and intelligent robots have tirelessly built the infrastructure todeliver it to our homes No one needs to work anymore Robots can doeverything humans can do and they do it uncomplainingly 24 hours a daySome things remain scarcemdashbeachfront property in Malibu originalRembrandtsmdashbut thanks to super-efficient use of natural resources andmassive recycling scarcity of ordinary consumer goods is a thing of the pastOur days are spent however we please perhaps in study perhaps playingvideo games Itrsquos up to us

Maybe you think Irsquom pulling your leg here Or being archly ironic After all thisdoes have a bit of a rose-colored tint to it doesnrsquot it Like something from TheJetsons or the cover of Wired That would hardly be a surprising reactionComputer scientists have been predicting the imminent rise of machineintelligence since at least 1956 when the Dartmouth Summer ResearchProject on Artificial Intelligence gave the field its name and there are only somany times you can cry wolf Today a full seven decades after the birth of thecomputer all we have are iPhones Microsoft Word and in-dash navigationYou could be excused for thinking that computers that truly match thehuman brain are a ridiculous pipe dream

But theyrsquore not Itrsquos true that wersquove made far slower progress toward real artificial intelligence than we oncethought but thatrsquos for a very simple and very human reason Early computer scientists grosslyunderestimated the power of the human brain and the difficulty of emulating one It turns out that this is avery very hard problem sort of like filling up Lake Michigan one drop at a time In fact not just sort of like Itrsquosexactly like filling up Lake Michigan one drop at a time

by Tio

Imagine a material one atom thick that can significantly improve the strengthconductivity and durability of materials Furthermore it could cost the same toproduce and implement these things from scratch as is would cost to replace thecurrent materials in use Graphene was isolated in 2004 and since thenscientists have discovered that it retains some amazing properties Some say thatit will be heralded as one of the materials that will literally change our lives in the21st century

Some of the wonders this material could help to createSmartphones that can charge in 20 seconds lighter aircraft and satellitesreplacing silicon in transistors embedding the material in plastics to enablethem to conduct electricity graphene-based sensors that could detectdangerous molecules plastics that are stiffer stronger and lighter leak-tight

Disruptions Medicine That Monitors You

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