New living systems

If designers were world leaders, they might suggest an entirely new way of structuring society that places humans more in harmony with nature.

One example is the Venus Project, the brainchild of Jacque Fresco, a self-educated industrial designer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor and social engineer.

The Venus Project presents a brave, new world that requires a total redesign of our way of living. It proposes a resource-based economy, in which the world’s resources are the common heritage of all the Earth's inhabitants.

The system distributes the planet’s resources in the most humane and efficient way possible. All goods and services are available to everyone without the use of money, credits, barter, or any other form of debt or servitude. The aim is to allow human beings, technology and nature to coexist in a long-term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

Certainly a radical approach and not one likely to gain worldwide acceptance any time soon. But it certainly gives food for thought. The Venus Project supports all its work with international research, so the vision is technically feasible.