Quote from DT-waw:
Do you need someone to tell you what do you want to do? Can't you figure it out by yourself?
In the world where there's abundance of energy which further means free transportation, food and (in the early phase of transition) all other goods ~50% cheaper, you decide what to do with your time. You don't have to work or fight or be corrupted anymore to obtain your basic living needs.
And if you'll want to do pure nothing for a long period of time, i'm pretty sure you'll get bored and finally start thinking about something useful for society especially when people around you will be engaged in anything useful.
"Future by Design" movie, shows and explains much more:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...&ei=HK4vSsa_G4Xo-QanhYWoBg&q=future+by+design
Read this when I was younger man and lived long enough to recognize it's unpleasant truth.
"People as group don't really adopt new ideas. Opponents to the new ideas must first die off."
Not a few of them. Almost all of them.
We've already had the war to end all wars.
That war was WWI
To change, we will need a total reset. Some change so fundenmental that it is impossible to rebuild the old system.
Even the world of Mad Max will not do. The old system will be reorganized around new scarcities.
As the wise and forward looking are always a tiny minority, they will be overwhelmed by the surviving masses.
I point u to Europe in the Dark Ages.
No, the Venus project discounts human nature, which as this stage in our evolution will not change. Notice that I said evolution, and not circumstances.
What u propose is a change in circumstances. It will not work.
The venus project will have to be left for a future generation to discover and build. If there are any of us left.