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Welcome to the Advanced Civilization Wiki
This website is a collaborative space for developing ideas and practical solutions to help bring forward the anticipated post-scarcity age. Concepts that take us to the next level of civilization. Technological ideas that change the game, allowing whole classes of contemporary problems to be solved at once, and enabling us to achieve things that are currently unfeasible - but very much necessary for our future peace and survival.
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Many problems and restrictions exist today that needn't
We obviously have great technical capabilities, but there is plenty that modern society hasn't got sorted yet due to the way it has evolved - a lot of it due to economics - which as a by-product leads to significant suffering for many people worldwide and unecessarily restricts what is possible to physically implement.
Emerging technologies and methods discussed here have the potential to allow anyone to live the lifestyle they choose - from living a simple rural life more like our ancestors, to living as hi-tech a life as anyone might desire - but all having access to the same advanced facilities when required - e.g. medical, educational, communication and transport.
Worldwide collaboration of individuals forging the future
Hopefully our current problems and restrictions will not remain for long as we realise what we are capable of, using modern technologies and collaborative methods to create the necessary solutions. 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 a major part of our current problems, and alarmingly governments and corporations seem to be great at both. Ultimately it is up to the collaboration of individuals on a global scale to make the future work best for us all.
Central ideas
Below are two emerging concepts that together have the potential to help bring forwards the coming post-scarcity age:
Open design
- which involves applying the highly successful open source software methodologies to the design of artifacts and systems in the physical world. The designs are freely available for anyone to use and help evolve. From the simplest things that can be made by individuals and groups, all the way up to large-scale systems of national and global infrastructure.
- Design problems get ironed out due to the involvement of enough interested people, among whom are individuals who are able to see what to them is an obvious solution; and as it is a non-proprietary system are willing help improve it for everyone's benefit. This way of working also minimizes the massive duplication of effort that occurs worldwide today in commercial design and engineering - due to the ways companies are forced to behave operating within the current financial framework.
- See the open design page for more information.
Advanced closed-loop automation
- which is highly advanced automated industrial systems capable of self-repair, maintenance and even self-assembly that need almost no human interaction to operate, apart from top level guidance. These systems will magnify our capability for production creating an abundance of anything we require, using the minimum of natural resources. This will give us the ability to easily provide for everyone's basic needs and beyond, while allowing modern society to integrate far better with the environment.
- See the advanced automation page for more information.
