*Switches voice setting to Sophia from The Golden Girls*. Picture it: Earth, year 2117 and future tourists are flocking to a sustainable destination where politics do not exist, there’s no need for cash and there’s no poverty or war.
It may sound like the setting of a sci-fi film but it’s actually the utopian vision of futurists Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows, who have been tucked away in their Florida home trying to bring their fantasy destination to life.
Speaking to Futurist, Meadows said ‘the Venus Project’ aims to redesign the world’s social system by building a sustainable new world where civilisation operates in a completely new way.
Unlike current major cities running under the direction of elected officials, Meadows said the futuristic city will be led by a non-corruptible central computer.
The computer will monitor citizens and remove the need for money and wealth by distributed daily resources as required – anything extra can be borrowed from a ‘library’-type facility.
Without the need to work for money, wealth or leadership, Meadow said society will be able to focus on “quality of life rather than profit”.
“This socio-economic system provides an equitable distribution of resources in an efficient manner without the use of money, barter, credit or servitude of any kind.”
Roxanne Meadows
“In a society where goods and services are made available to the entire population free of charge, ownership becomes a burden that is ultimately surpassed by a system of common property.”