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What project would you propose to change the world?
What would you do to make the world peaceful, populations sustainable? If you had no limits of money, time, or people you could involve--what would you do to convince people to reduce energy consumption, respect nature, and so on?
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ron angel
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Marcus Cake
Economic Development 4.0 is how the world works after applying Web 3.0 (or Facebook) networks to social, industrial and political endeavours. Web 3.0 person to person networks overcome the design limitations of Web 1.0 hierarchies to deliver global transparency, meritocracy, productivity, accessibility and better decision making
We can create the Web 3.0 networks on the Critical Path to Economic Development 4.0. We will need the world’s entrepreneurs, philanthropists and statesmen to engineer and inspire their use
One global Web 4.0 network can replace local Web 1.0 hierarchies. Examples include Democracy 3.0, fueling the growth of SME’s with Equity Market 3.0, Climate Stability 3.0, UNITED (International Governance 4.0) and Health Industry 3.0 plus patient health record.
Other potential Web 4.0 networks include Education, Resources, Food, Energy and Oil. Peace may be an outcome of UNITED (International Governance 4.0), Democracy 3.0, Education 3.0, and Equity Market 3.0.
Additional information and a 70+ slide presentation is available at http://www.opennetworksinstitute.org/economic-development .
Kevin Stephens
The biggest thing we could do is use money or resources to eliminate the need for money and resources when it comes to betterment for people, societies, and humanity.
Why does one person have a billion dollars and a billion people have nothing? What does it mean for a country to owe trillions? The numbers are so staggering that the lose meaning.
The economy is an enabler for greed, hoarding, and those things are excuses people give to hurt each other either through withholding things from our fellow humans, or by using it against them.
It's time we wake up, develop a system of 'Human Management' where people are ALL treated equal regardless of the 'unfortunate' circumstances they're in. There would be no such thing as an unfortunate person if we all reached out our hands to one another... we'd all be in the same boat (earth), with the same worries (perpetuating the race safely and managing our planet).
Eliminate money or enforce wealth limitations to remove the enabler to deter hoarders of wealth and power from standing on the backs of many. When wealth is acquired above the limitation, it's placed with a committee who puts it to use for society. Open the world to manage our needs as a society, not as a collection of individuals whose personal aims come before even basic human rights of others.
Nicola Stratford
Ben Woodhead
Renewable power such as wind or solar are would be far better if they were used in a distributed fashion. You could cover a significant amount of a city if you considered every house or building as part of your generation network.
It would be silly to treat nuclear power as a distributed source by putting nuclear plants in everybodies house and it would be equally silly to treat renewable power as a dense source.
We have the space if we start viewing rooftops as part of the power generation network instead of just consumption.
Bene
Jerrold Ridenour
Barry Palmer 50+
Second, I would provide everyone with the ability to connect with TED.
joy faber 10+
I don't think that (very libertarian) statement goes far enough. It needs to include something about how a society is characterized by the way it treats the least among them.
If the first oath is: First do no harm--what is the second oath?
Cornelius Mattey
Cornelius mattey
Erik Richardson 500+
Adriaan Braam 20+
The further back we go the worse that was.
We cannot change selfish people into loving people, or greedy people into sharing people, etc.
1) People need to be educated why we are in this world, 2) what is best for us in the long run and 3) how to change ourselves to have the best possible character by the time our body dies.
1) "Everyone born into this world is not born for the sake of themselves but for the sake of others." (~ Swedenborg)
This means we should have that as a priority in mind when we get up in the morning until we go to bed at night. It should not be any different whether we are politicians or run a variety store, collect garbage or preach on Sunday.
In fact all religions should have only two rules: Love your God and love your neighbour. The rest is just details.
2) In the very long run, the quality of our eternity is more important than our comfort during the couple of seconds on this planet. What is best for us is to fit in as perfectly as possible in society and nature, with the least amount of discomfort and friction. This means 1) should be focused on and applied. Our body is what we eat, but we are not our body, we are our spirit, that means we are what we love. The human condition is such that we have total control over what we chose to love. So practise 1)
3) We have to be aware we live in a spiritual world which tries to pull us aside. Heaven tries to pull us up, but hell is trying very much to pull us down. We have been given a 'suit' that keeps both 'forces' in perfect balance. By just the twitching of a finger, by making the smallest choice, we can either go up or go down. The huge challenge of this life is that with every single choice, of the hundreds we make per day, we move up or down.
It would be my investment to broadcast reminders around the world, not about the weather or stockmarket, but what we're here for. GO UP!
joy faber 10+
Udit Kumar Sahoo
Scott Armstrong 50+
Nicola Stratford
Scott Armstrong 50+
Nicola Stratford
In all initiatives, the needs of the most vulnerable (babies, children, the elderly and people with disability) should be considered first, with the needs of all others being secondary, given the latter's ability to adapt, move, manipulate equipment and space with greater facility than can the former.
Scott Armstrong 50+
Zdenek Smith 100+
Through education people can beter understand ethics, society, relationships, happiness and pursue their interests as a job. Education is proven to lower birth rates, help to grow economy and limit conflicts.
Random Chance 30+
Things don't cost money. They cost people, since you say I would have no limits on people, then everyone could be part of creating, producing, helping and receiving. Money is not actually needed. It only creates crime, greed, inequality, poverty, slavery, war and death.
Engage the entire world in cleaning up the oceans' garbage islands as well as all the waste, litter and garbage in the world.
Treat people with respect, first with the fact that the world's resources belong to all and all have a right to their fair share in order to live, so the needs that are basic to all, first have to be available and given freely to all. Eliminate the fear of lack, the pain of starvation and the ills many suffer simply because so many think they have to exist because, well, they just have to. All of it should be 100% unacceptable but to many, they are tolerable and that is horrible.
Get rid of almost all government as it is, along with politicians. Both are irrelevant to the lives and problems of the world. In fact they create them solely to profit from them. People don't want government to give "it" to us, but it isn't theirs. It's the world's and we give it to ourselves, because we all are the ones who do the work, freely or for slave wages.
Get rid of countries, laws, politicians and start anew with a basis in "how we make decisions" not who makes them.
We are all dependent upon one another and most people in the world simply want to live free, in peace and anything that divides us is used to divide us, so we have to eliminate those things that create crime, greed and so on. That starts with money.
Get rid of religion. It has failed in providing a moral context in which to live. Science has not done this either, since they have had ample opportunity over decades, but have not stepped up.
How we treat one another, and how we treat other life, is more important than trying to legislate morality.
edward long 100+
joy faber 10+
edward long 100+
joy faber 10+
My daughter got married last May. That day her new husband went to the emergency room and within 6 weeks was diagnosed wityh stage III colon cancer. He was 37. He dided less than 6 months later.
If I could do anything it would be to build a small Earthship for my daughter so she wouldn't have to work so hard or worry so much about her future or that of my little grand son.
edward long 100+
joy faber 10+
I think it's interesting that H. Mackenzie says "THE manner" I wonder what he meant by that?
I get the supreme being, higher power thing. I'm not sure I believe it at this point. The way I see it is that whether people believe it or not is irrelevant. What matters is that people join together in institutions that are free from government interference and religion is the only place our constitution guarantees that church and state be separate. The state of our religious organizations today makes that possibility hard to stomach!
edward long 100+
Amen to the state of churches etc. in today's world. Do not depend on churches to reveal truth. But do seek truth. Thanks for the opportunity to brainstorm. I think Mr. Mackenzie chose the article "the" as a reference to the plurality of choices we have regarding how we will bear hardship. Consider writing a closing statement when your post closes. The results will surely have value. Peace to you and yours.--Edward
Jonathon Compton
I LOVE that statement!!!! My 6th grade teacher used to say something similar: "Your rights stop, where it infringes on the rights of others". This has stuck with me for 30 years or more now.
Bernard Seremonia
- combining science to improve our ability to control traditional process (to maintain our sense of humanity) easily , interactively, deeper and deeper, easier and easier, to create self awareness and know our unique purpose in our life and even more widening our awareness
- strictly just for the extension of our body's ability, so we can see better, we can access hidden database easily, and many more, but without obligation for widening awareness.
It releases our own possibilities to create self awareness and our unique purposes in our life, and to improve our control through spiritual energy. It direct us to be able to control things easier and better adjustment on social life. Hopefully these lead us to a peaceful society wider than before.
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Ahmed Murchie