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Welcome to the Advanced Civilization Wiki
This website is for developing ideas and practical solutions to help bring forward the coming post-scarcity age.
Ideas to take us to the next level of civilization. Concepts that totally change the game, enabling whole classes of problems to be solved at once, and allowing us to achieve the unfeasible.
Problems and restrictions
We obviously have great technological potential but there is plenty that modern society simply hasn't got right, allowing great suffering to many people and unecessarily restricting what is possible to achieve.
It is obvious there are major problems in the world today, still here far beyond the point where we gained the ability to solve them. Some affect Western society as much as the rest of the world, some mainly affect those living in developing countries - which after all contain the majority of the world's population.
Taking it to the next level
Thesse problems and restrictions cannot remain forever, the necessary changes to the framework of society will happen sooner or later. Of course sooner is better than later, and the speed at which our culture and technology are now evolving mean that we witness the results of our efforts in ever shorter periods of time.
Self-interest and short-term thinking are part of the problem. Alarmingly governments and corporations are great at both. It is up to the collaboration of individuals on a global scale to make the future work. If you make life better for everyone, you make it better for yourself - the opposite rarely holds true.
Main ideas
Here are two major ideas to start off with. Please explore them and add your feedback, all contributions are welcome:
Open design
This is the application of open source culture, as currently used in many software development projects, to design artifacts and systems in the physical world. Designs that are freely available for anyone to use, to give useful feedback on and mutually evolve. Designs that can be easily customized to suit individual needs. Problems get ironed out because there will always be enough people with an interest who see the solution as being obvious and are willing help improve the design for the benefit of all. This way of working also minimizes the massive duplication of effort that currently occurs in commercial design and engineering worldwide.
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Advanced closed loop automation
This is the development of automated systems capable of self-repair, maintenance and even self-assembly that need almost no human interaction to operate, apart from top level instruction. These systems will magnify our capability for production creating vast abundance while integrating much better with the environment.
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These two ideas tied together are likely to be a very powerful force for good in the near future, with open design being important in helping implement useful examples of advanced automation for the benefit of all of us.
