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Originally posted by NatureBoy
reply to post by Amaterasu
Wow i knew that by admitting i had skimmed through certain long winded and overly mawkish sections you would say i missed the point, i didn't expect it to be the main focus of EVERY line you wrote in reply. For the record i read #most# of it the first half word for word then i started scan reading and skipping pointless sections -sorry i've read A LOT of poor sci-fi i know which bits to skip. I still understood your arguments, plans and reasons.
Ok, the gender bias - I could deluge you in feminist essays, Grear has a good one which springs to mind but i won't bother i'll just assume you know that many women found it really insulting that all the major characters were men while women played only vapid bit parts in most text - You have done the same in reverse, but that's probably only because you're building yourself a ideal society, everyone in it is you (or a plastic Ken doll) which is the crux of the problem for me -the world is more complex than that, we aren't all you.
Sorrry that you took my post as an all out attack, it wasn't but i understand it was hard to take nicely, i did after all 'attack' your work - i undertand why you would tell me to 'shut up' so many times. I would shut up but then you keep spamming other threads demanding people read your book so i feel like you've almost invited me back to speak some more of my opinion.
hehe do people tell each other to 'shut up' in utopia?
All those books i mentioned, indeed the main problem is Scarcity - however the focus of the society is to deal with scarcity, they all have a society designed to provide a horn of plenty but alas they all describe the problems within this... the stone in the hand in Logan's Run is often seen as a metaphore, it's about limiting our access to the share of resources -we each get a certain time in the sun but it's not enough for anyone, EVERYONE RUNS i.e. everyone trys to take more than the fair share...
Now Star Trek has an actual solution to this, the federation gathers space rocks which provide mass amounts of power which can then be used to power the replicator which creates items people want, as long as you don't mess up everyone else life you can have what you want.
This is why i said star trek was like your idea, but then you were being to defensive to see that -i understand.
Now Star Trek is about a billion years in the future,
they are developing towards being a type 3 civ - WE, right back here in history are almost a type one -we don't have infinate power or replicators -thus we still have scarcity.
Your book covers how to install a surveillance society and puts it in individual hands, how to trade when money is ended and why you should only do things you love -however you never once mentioned who is making the flying ships, who gets the stuff from the ground, who makes the power to power them, etc, etc, etc.
Ok and finally, my point with the battleship wasn't that i was going to attack anyone i was just picking something you would find ugly, offensive, etc -hehe i considered a giant neon S&M Club in the shape of a penis too - the point being that not everyone is you, not everyone will coexist in peace - We have 6.8billion now, with no economic reasons for having less children and no reason not to plenty of people will find 'bliss' in having large litters, octomum will become dodecamom or centimother - Thus over population will rise massively (this happens in logans run, soylant green, etc and causes the main problems)
So a world with trillions of people all jostling for space and finding 'bliss' in big battleships, floating forests, steampunk submarines, etc -how is the ecosystem going to cope? Where does the power come from, Sol only sends us so much....
In short, you have a nice vision for the distant future but that's not going to help us get there - we live in a type zero world and face type zero problems, if you're going to spam world solutions, how about helping us reach type one first? We need to sort out our governments, our greed and ourselves before we can move into floating zen gardens.
Telling everyone that they can just stop worrying about scarcity won't help anyone, and filming everything that happens isn't as simple as you make it out -to start with we don't even have the tech for that yet, invasion of privacy, pedos, faked recordings (ALWAYS possible), criminals will know to shoot from behind, etc, etc, etc.
Originally posted by Jay-in-AR
Surely this is a severe violation of T&C.
I don't even need to have access to the servers of this site to tell that this is a shameless plug of a literary piece. I haven't read it, nor will I. If this thread isn't removed and the OP docked a SERIOUS amount of his/her points, I may quit posting here.
[edit on 6-2-2009 by Jay-in-AR]
Originally posted by madmangunradio
I think your book would actually make a hell of a good movie.
Originally posted by S1LV3R4D0
I say, BRAVO Amaterasu. Your tops in my book. And thank you again for the excellent read. I have passed it along to a few friends that i thought could grasp the concept if anything, and they LOVED it.
Thank you again.
Originally posted by NatureBoy
reply to post by Amaterasu
ok i'll make this short i need some sleep, when i said star trek was a billion years in the future i didn't mean it as an exact number -the first star trek i suppose you mean the one with the guy from quantem leap?
... i just wanted to reiterate my point - we are a long way from the tech required to live in a technological utopia., a real long way.
A type 1 society is one which uses all the home planets power
type 2 is one which uses the whole solasystems power and resources
type three is one which uses the whole universes power.
-it's a fairly common system now.
--so as i was saying, we are type 0.x at the moment, we don't have the tech to call ourselves type one yet, A technological utopia or type one civ requires AI to control the robots, computers, etc, highly advanced robots or atomic realignment, plentiful power. social order, enough automatic food production, entertainment for the jobless humans and of course protection from outside threat.
I am actually very involved in esoteric power generation, in fact i am writing a practical guide on alternative power sources to be released as an open source e-book. Let me enlighten you to a few of the problems we face, on an industrial scale most power kinetic power sources require more power to make than they will produce in their lifetime - this as also true of PV (solar cells) and small scale thermocouple systems - this wont always be the case but it is at the moment, large scale wind farms are the exception to the rule.
We are a long, long way off having an easy power solution -we are even further off having no resources worrys
-look at the amount of oil the average american consumes a year (including the 'oil footprint' of everything they brought, did, etc) then multiply that by six and a half billion.
Now if we were to work out the size of the earth and the size of that amount of oil how many years do you think would pass until the total volume of oil we would need is larger than the earth it self?
The sand needed to make the silicon wafers in PV cells is due to run out soon,
only recently their was a scare on copper levels and the price jumped wildly,
we've almost burnt through the entire crushed remains of the forests we played in as dinos and coal will start to get rare soon.
I could go on, the point is we're going to struggle with resources until we can start mining asteroids but that means a space program and that's very energy expensive in itself - you can't just deny scarcity is a problem and pretend everything will be alright if we don't worry about ever running out.
hehe i said i would make it short so i'll end quickly, we're about a billion years away from the tech required for your utopia and unless we work out the NEXT step we're going to take,
remembering all the pieces on the board, then we're likely going to drop the ball and die out like all the other failed species, heh maybe the rats will do a better job when it's their turn.
So, sorry if you think i'm harsh
but really i think your idea is interesting and shows somemerit, however its a great pipe dream...
Originally posted by Nirgal
3) This isn't really about the book, the conversation has moved on I feel.
As someone once said, "Show me the money!"
I have yet to see anything that even hints that your vision is attainable within our lifetimes.
You say the technology exists and cite those responsible for it and then say the tech has been suppressed. Surely then, if you know this tech exists it can be replicated. Why are people in their garden sheds not making these wonderful machines?
A 100 year old laboratory wouldn't be hard to build by today's amateur. I'm continually amazed at people that build their own wind turbines etc.
Again, "Show me the money!"
I have no doubt that greed plays a very important factor in why things are as they are currently and things could be different were that mindset to be altered however, the tech you describe just simply is not available yet.
I don't think it unreasonable to demand this metaphorical messiah is brought before me so I can press my fingers at the nails; then I will recycle happily by putting my colours to your mast.
It's simple, "Show me the money!"
Oh btw, I suspect it really is special sand.
Originally posted by NatureBoy
reply to post by Amaterasu
i don't really know what te point of saying this is , you'll just wall of text me and write MOOT under each section, as if by saying 'moot' it makes all the practical issues i talked about go away.
Firstly yes the sand needed is very special sand, you need to be able to make a p-n type semiconductor which means growing blobs of chystals from special sand in a lab and cutting them with lasers and stuff - the process is very interesting, learn about it some time.
I wish i could be bothered to find mitchio kaku's explanation of Tesla's work but alas you wouldn't listen to it anyway, it would be MOOT because he's a globalist or a lizard hearted person.
What makes you think i have a lizard heart? is it by any chance because i don't agree with you 100%???
Just saying i am a lizard is an ad hom attack, an attack on me and my character not my points -which you MOOTed and ignored.
As the other poster says, SHOW ME THE MONEY, if free energy is possible why don't any of the free energy companies or e-books have working versions?
Why doesn't china or india or botswanna decided to use them? You might say because of the NWO but they didn't seem to mind when iceland plugged it's capital into the steam vents and disconnected from the oil/coal grid. (alas only possible for a nation like iceland which has geothermal vents.) I don't remember the NWO complaining that Nevada was being powered by hydroelectric or Cairo either for that matter.
The simple fact is scarcity is a problem for us, resources and power are not easy to come by just yet and could get much much harder to get soon.
I love robots, much of my favorite scifi is about robots -Asimov and Clake- but even though i do think we're on the verge of a tech boom in robots even faster than the computer boom (1940-now) i don't think it will be the panacea to our problems, power and resources will still be the main problems we face -even AFTER we crack cold fusion or safe fission.
So either make a tesla tower and attract some of this dark weight to power your atom realignment machine or accept we've still got along way to go and pitch in with some practical solutions - or keep spamming threads about how you HAVE THE ANSWER TO ALL THE WORLDS PROBLEMS -whatever.
Originally posted by NatureBoy
reply to post by Amaterasu
indeed we have reached a certain point, you won't debate any of my points or take on board any of my ideas and info -while i am just being accused of 'not getting it' -heh, maybe i don't.... maybe you don't -ah the joy of debate.
You have a secret gang of lizards hiding tesla's true work, i have my own crazy (rational) theory on how the world works. I don't see a solution in your book to either of our world views.
Your system is no dfferent to the Communism which turned to despotism in soviet russia, the National Socialism which turned to fascist Nazi brutality.
Originally posted by Wertdagf
reply to post by Amaterasu
Abundance is inevitiable. So you are right about how things will end up in that aspet. As to lizards and the terra papers i think that is a stretch. The way you think it will come about is wrong in my veiw but who cares?