Just a short note to say thank you to everybody for the debate, thoughts and comments. Just for the record, when I posted this entitled "for the sake of balance", I am not implying that I thought the arguement was balanced, I meant it to serve as an example of an alternative view to The Venus Project.
This film excited me and gave me hope. Personally, a technocratic society is not the way I would want to go. Machines are still fictional creations and I cannot picture myself living in an ocean city, growing my food using hydoponics. I am also sceptical of any "solution" that seems to imply that the world is overpopulated (as Fresco's writings seem to). This is a myth as can be clearly shown by simple maths.
The idea that gives me the most hope is proposed by Vladimir Megre in the "Ringing Cedars" series of books (
www.ringingcedars.com). To those that have read my posts before, you will know I mention this guy a lot; the reason is that I'm passionate about the idea, so please forgive me?