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* [http://www.educacionprohibida.com La educación prohibida]: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje.
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* [http://www.educacionprohibida.com La educación prohibida]: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje. ("¿Pero no quieres tener un título, ser alguien en la vida? Yo ya soy alguien en la vida!")
 
* [http://www.born-to-learn.org Born to learn] is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. Also [http://www.responsiblesubversives.org Responsible Subversive], a social network for people who want to connect and discuss how to change the world by changing the way we raise our children.
 
* [http://www.born-to-learn.org Born to learn] is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. Also [http://www.responsiblesubversives.org Responsible Subversive], a social network for people who want to connect and discuss how to change the world by changing the way we raise our children.
  

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Contents

Resource Based Economy (RBE) and The Venus Project

The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable state of dynamic equilibrium.

The Venus Project material

The books:

Zeitgeist Movement

The Movement

The collapse of the monetary system

Education

  • La educación prohibida: Una película sobre la educación centrada en el amor, el respeto, la libertad y el aprendizaje. ("¿Pero no quieres tener un título, ser alguien en la vida? Yo ya soy alguien en la vida!")
  • Born to learn is a fun, thought-provoking series of animations that illustrate ground-breaking new discoveries about how humans learn. Also Responsible Subversive, a social network for people who want to connect and discuss how to change the world by changing the way we raise our children.

Open Source

Inequalities and other problems

Atheism

Inspiration

Quotations:

  • I was asked once, “You’re a smart man. Why aren’t you rich?” I replied, “You’re a rich man. Why aren’t you smart?” Jacque Fresco
  • Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. Howard Zinn
  • The ultimate freedom for creative groups is the freedom to experiment with new ideas. Some skeptics insist that innovation is expensive. In the long run, innovation is cheap. Mediocrity is expensive—and autonomy can be the antidote. Tom Kelley (IDEO manager)
  • If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
  • La seule façon de traiter avec un monde non libre est de devenir si absolument libre que votre existence même est un acte de rébellion. Albert Camus

The three most important natural motivators of human endeavor and excellence:

  1. Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives.
  2. Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters.
  3. Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves.

External rewards extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, crowd out good behavior, encourage cheating, become addictive, and foster short-term thinking.

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night.

Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement

  • In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion. Carl Sagan
  • Intenta que el niño que fuiste nunca se averguence del adulto que eres.
  • Cuando soplan vientos de cambio, algunos construyen muros, otros molinos.
  • Afirmar que mi destino no está ligado al tuyo es como decir: tu lado del bote se está hundiendo.

Interesting technology issues & ideas

Designing the Future by Jacque Fresco

Elena's reading of the Spanish translated version, Diseñando el Futuro.

  1. Introduction: