"Two thinkers—Buckminster Fuller and Jacque Fresco—spent their entire lives designing exactly what this kind of civilization would look like. They both believed that human greed and politics weren’t the problem; rather, they believed the system we live in forces people to behave that way, and that better design could change everything.
Here is a breakdown of what Fuller and Fresco have to say about this exact scenario.
Buckminster Fuller: "Utopia or Oblivion"
Buckminster Fuller (often called "Bucky") was a 20th-century futurist, architect, and systems theorist. He viewed the Earth as a beautifully integrated machine—which he famously called "Spaceship Earth"—and argued that we are all its astronauts.
1. Weaponry vs. Livingry
Fuller argued that humanity’s technological capability had reached a point where we could take care of 100% of humanity at a higher standard of living than anyone had ever known. He stated that we face a distinct choice between "weaponry" (investing in domination, war, and political power) and "livingry" (investing in housing, sustainable energy, and education).
2. The Obsolescence of Politics
It is a core tenet of this perspective that political and economic systems based on ownership are outdated. Fuller argued that politicians cannot solve our problems because they deal in the management of scarcity. He believed that only a "design science revolution"—using technology and comprehensive thinking to do more with less—could truly liberate humanity.
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
— Buckminster Fuller
Jacque Fresco: The Resource-Based Economy
Jacque Fresco was a structural designer and social engineer who founded The Venus Project. If Bucky was the philosopher of this movement, Fresco was the concrete planner. He took the ideas of a new civilization and literally drew the blueprints for it.
1. The Resource-Based Economy (RBE)
Fresco’s core contribution aligns perfectly with the assertion that money and property are obsolete. He proposed a Resource-Based Economy, a system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credit, barter, or any other system of debt or servitude.
In an RBE, all resources are declared the common heritage of all the Earth's inhabitants.
Instead of pricing items to restrict access, technology and automation are used to create such high abundance that money simply becomes irrelevant (just as we don't pay for the air we breathe because it is abundant).
2. Cybernated Government
Fresco did not believe in human politicians, whom he saw as easily corrupted and lacking technical expertise. Instead, he envisioned a computerized system (an early conceptualization of what we might call advanced AI today) that would monitor total global resources in real-time.
The AI wouldn't "rule" people; it would manage the distribution of resources and optimize production based on environmental safety and human need.
Because human needs are automatically met, Fresco argued that 95% of crime, greed, and territorial behavior would vanish, as these are symptoms of scarcity.
Comparing the Two Visions
While both men shared the same ultimate goal—a world beyond scarcity and war—their approaches had slight differences.
Buckminster Fuller's primary focus was on epistemology, shifting human consciousness, individual actions, and geometric efficiency. He looked closely at synergetics—aligning human design with the inherent geometry and laws of the universe—and believed education and a grassroots shift in how people view "Spaceship Earth" would naturally dissolve old structures.
Jacque Fresco, by contrast, focused on the total structural redesign of cities, total automation of labor, and a strict scientific method applied to society. He believed in comprehensive environmental management and utilizing technology to completely protect and restore the biosphere, arguing that existing cities must be bypassed entirely to build highly efficient, circular, automated cities from scratch.
The Crossroad: Utopia or Oblivion?
The warning of a massive uprising if old power structures try to maintain dominance hits on a major theme. Fuller actually wrote a book titled Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity, where he argued that humanity faces a distinct final exam. If advanced technological supreme intelligence (like AI) is used to build bigger walls and weapons, it will lead to destruction. If it is used to manage the planet cooperatively, it opens up a golden age.
Both thinkers would look at the rise of advanced AI not as a threat to jobs, but as the ultimate key to the jailbreak—the exact tool needed to finally retire the obsolete concepts of toil, ownership, and scarcity, and begin building a civilization based on compassion and intelligent design."
Someone needs to come up with a better, environmentally caring solution for the ai data centers, if someone can present a better way, they will take it. We have to try. What about presenting some sort of a scholarship contest for young people, or some sort of contest where the winners get a huge chunk of change..Why not get all of humanity on board and try solving it together.. That would be a huge hit on the tv- like shark tank, but Project Earth Tank. 🌎 I think the whole world would watch it. 📺
Thanks for listening!
Calixess (Drakonach's partner lol i am writing this under his acct! 😆)
