Josh lives in the year 2980 on Earth. In which country isn’t important anymore, since humanity has been united long ago. They still use the old names of countries just to clarify where on Earth someone lives, but it has lost all meaning since boarders do not exist anymore. Josh has learned all about how the World came to be from school. As far as he understood there was a lot of conflict and war on Earth. Many different opinions on how things should be done. And nearly no common ground. The start of the New Age began with technological advancements in space flight. Humanity started to explore its Solar System and the Resources and Energy within it. Not long after, the construction of a Dysons Sphere around the sun started. A device thought only to exist in science fiction books became a reality. Multiple Rings with solar panels on the inside facing the son rotating around it to collects its energy. With this abundance of energy space travel exploded. New technologies where developed each week one more spectacular then the other. But humanity was still divided. All this change when the first colony on Mars was created. Immediately arguments started under which control the people from Mars should be or what political system they should inherit. The people from Mars concluded that they should create their own independent political system with their own morals. Amongst them they decided for a Technocratic Government. A governance in which the decision-makers are not elected by the people but by their skills and expertise. The foundation of such Government is to make decisions based on logic, rational and the scientific method. With the goal to solve problems by finding technological solutions.
Josh was always fascinated with this way of live. The people from Mars had made great new Inventions which helped people not only on Mars but back on Earth as well. Josh just finished his school and decided to travel, as was common for people his age. His first stop would be Mars. His space shuttle would leave the next day at 10 am. It didn’t cost anything to travel to another planet, since it was seen as a basic human right to travel different planets. Everyday space shuttles travelled from Earth to many planets. It was as easy as taking a taxi. The next day at 8am he was at the launch site listening to the instructions of the flight crew. The journey would only take about an hour. Most of the hour was reserved for liftoff and landing. The flight alone only took a couple of minutes. This faster than light travel was possible through something by the name of warp drive. Josh didn’t understand the technology behind it, but he didn’t need to. The next few hours were like a blur to him. They boarded the space shuttle and started their journey to Mars. They were no windows so the first time he saw the red planet was once he got of the plane. He stood in a giant glass dome and saw the red planet for the first time. Most of it looked rocky and sandy with a couple of different sized domes in the distance. Someone explained that nearly all habitats are dome structured, it had something to do with being the optimal structure to hold the pressure difference, Since the atmosphere was much thinner than on earth. The domes were connected through an underground network of tunnels. Josh was fascinated by the planet instantly. After finding a place to stay for the night he decided to go visit a bar. After a few drinks, he started a conversation with a guy sitting at the bar. He was a bit older than him and lived his whole life on Mars. They talked about what live is like for them on Earth and Mars.
Since the whole planet of Mars was under one governing system: the Technocratic System. It was peaceful on Mars. Only people who support this type of government came to Mars an everyone worked for a common goal. Back in the day when the colony was juts born, the people realized that Earth would be better off if it too was united under one governing system. Lengthy discussions were held about what political system would be the best. Noone was willing to accept that their systems was inferior to that of another. So, they agreed to disagree: No Political system is better than another. Because no 2 humans are alike, they will always have a different opinion about a topic. So, there is no objective truth only subjective opinions. Still they decided that Earth should be Democratic by majority. Those people who felt that a different political system would be better had the chance to leave earth behind an create their own ideal world on a new Planet. So after a while humanity started to travel the Stars and create new civilizations on different planets, each with their own political and philosophical viewpoint.
After speaking with the man in the Bar for a while Josh started to notice the small differences in the way they speak. The man used very blunt direct and factual speech pattern whereas he himself spoke more colourful with emotions. The language they both spoke was the same. Since back on earth before the colonization of Mars all languages naturally came together to form one global language. This global language was then spread to every planet. So nearly everyone spoke the same language. This was an important step to eliminate the illusion of separation and to eradicate misunderstandings. Some differences in the language emerged naturally. For example, the man explained that in formal setting on Mars they use hand symbols to go with a sentence. If someone gives a factual Sentence which contents is globally recognized to be true (i.E. The earth is round) he points the Index finger straight upwards to indicate that the sentence is a fact. If one gives an opinion about an topic it is shown by pointing the finger to the right. If the Speaker, make an sarcastic statement or a joke the finger is pointed down. This type of speech directly reflects the political system on Mars. Rational and clear. After spending some time in the Bar Josh decided to go back home and sleep. On the way to his hotel, he realized in what crazy times they live. And that he is currently walking on another planet millions of miles away from home. And he has just seen one Bar at one Planet. The next few week went by quickly. Josh meets many different people and learn a lot about the planet, the politics and how everything plays together. After these few weeks he decided to move on. After speaking with other travellers who just came from a Planet known as Woran he decided to make this his next stop. He didn’t know much about it but heard that it was an Anarchistic Planet. He wondered how they would live and how they kept things going if there was basically no rules. But he would find out the next day. In the morning, he boarded a ship and with in a couple of hours he was on Woran. It was a small blue Planet with a breathable atmosphere. The gravity only was ½ of the gravity back on Earth so first thing Josh did when arriving there was jumping around like a kid on a trampoline. Somone spotted him and came over. “First time on Woran?” a woman asked him. “Yes” he answered a bit embarrassed and stop his jumping around. “No worries. I see tourist jumping around all the time”. A bit relieved Josh asked her Name. After introducing herself as Andria and talking for a while she offered Josh to stay at her place for a while. Josh happily agreed and bombarded her with questions about the way they live for the next couple of days. He learned that they basically have no rules that they have to obey, but they still of course have morals. And if someone behaves in a way that harms the community, they are quickly find themselves no longer having a community. It is a self-regulating community. No central Government. Everything is voluntary and everyone is part of a decision-making process. Resources are shared freely amongst the community. Andria told him that’s it is the ultimate form of freedom for her.
After spending some time on Woran Josh continued his journey through the Universe visiting many different Planets and learning about different ways of live. He was amazed by the diversity on complexity of all these different planets. He somehow wondered why int wasn’t possible to live like that back on earth. Why do different political systems have to be divided? Then it dawned him. Their needed to be a physical separation between these different communities. For instance, some Anarchistic community with a strong focus on ecological balance could never live next to a technocratic community. The different ideas and values would clash to much. The technocratic system would pursue new technologies by sometimes nearly any means necessary and impede on the way an ecological focused community would live. So it was best for every system to have its own planet so there is no conflict of interest. Everyone on it would share the same ideas and believes. And if someone does not feel like it is the right place, you can always go to another planet. Since space travel has improved so greatly over the years it is easy for people to change their planet. Even if you live happily on a planet, you can still go travel to explore many different world and learn to live in different ways. This helps to empathise with people you are normally in disagreement with because you are literally living in their shoes. One can draw Wisdom from many places.
One of the most important technologies of this cyberutopian world is the Internet or a form of it which make communication instant over the whole Universe. With it you can still have contact with many different people across the Universe. Ideas can be spread an connection can be maintained. Most importantly for this type of connection is a free unregulated internet. The different planets can share Information with each other freely and voluntarily. Nobody has something to lose by sharing new Ideas and Wisdom because everyone has something to gain and there is no conflict of Interest. After many years of traveling Josh returned to Earth with a newfound wisdom and outlook on live. He thought to himself this truly has to be the perfect world.

[[Category:52) Astronomy]]
[[Category:14) Philosophical systems and point of views]]
[[Category:43) Politics]]

User:Alexander Jaumann

2024-06-14T15:01:52Z

Alexander Jaumann:

Student participating in the seminar held at the Munich University of Applied Sciences "From Ancient Utopias to Cyberutopias. An Introduction to Political Philosophy".

[[Category:62) Engineering. Technology in general]]