The Technosocialism Blog

Trying this again

antieuclid — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:11:59 +0000

A few months ago, my webhost decided to cancel my account and delete all my data. That was fun. So I’m working on getting everything set up and running again, but if this post remains the only one on here for a couple of months, it’s because having to start over from scratch made me [...]

How do we get there from here?

antieuclid — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:12:04 +0000

Over the course of these essays, I have outlined my idea for a society quite different from the status quo, but one that I believe must be the next step in human social evolution. So, how do we get from point a to point b? How do we handle the transition from capitalism to technosocialism? [...]

Health Care, TechSoc Style

antieuclid — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:06:37 +0000

I’ve talked in a number of these essays about the Material Rights that every citizen is entitled to. Food and Housing have each gotten at least an essay a piece. Housing and Technology have been at least briefly addressed. But there is one important piece of the Material Rights puzzle that I have left almost [...]

Farming and Food Production

antieuclid — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:01:44 +0000

Let me start this essay off with two givens: the production of food is very important, and the production of food is very complicated. The production of food is also something that I know very little about. Oh, I can hold my own when it comes to baking bread or churning butter, but when it [...]

Things kept, things left behind

antieuclid — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:53:03 +0000

The following is a series of short mini-essays on topics that I felt like writing about but couldn’t fit into a larger essay or expand enough to make them worth writing entire essays on by themselves. For the most part they center on aspects and institutions of our current society, and whether or not they [...]

Disability and the Social Safety Net

antieuclid — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:46:23 +0000

One question that comes up a lot when I try to explain the idea of citizens being required to contribute more than they consume has to do with the question of those who, because of physical or mental disability, are unable to work. This is a subject close to my heart, and I want to [...]

Protecting against Identity Theft

antieuclid — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:40:09 +0000

With so much of technosocialist society depending on one’s online identity, what is the best way to ensure that it’s not possible for criminals to steal the identities of upstanding citizens and make purchases through the market or do other things that would hurt their standing in the community? There are a number of ways, [...]

Travel and Tourism

antieuclid — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:32:20 +0000

Let me start this essay out with an admission: like so many Americans, I have never really travelled. I’ve been to Canada once or twice, and I once spent a whole week in Antigua, but I’ve never even been to California, let alone Europe or Asia. Unfortunately under our current system, travel is both difficult [...]

Imports and Exports in a Post-Currency World

antieuclid — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:24:54 +0000

One of the primary challenges in starting a technosocialist society is the difficulty in trade between technosocialist and non-technosocialist societies. While trade between a society based on the dollar and a society based on the yen only requires a currency exchange to enable trade, it is far more difficult when one side uses currency and [...]

Big Brother, sans Brother?

antieuclid — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:23:06 +0000

I was talking to someone the other day about my ideas, and while we didn’t go into any depth (the conversation lasted a total of about three minutes) her immediate concern was that “You’d need people checking up on everyone, and that’s Big Brother.” And the idea of a centralized computer system that keeps quite [...]