Auravana - Timeline - Historical Community Development


1	Year	Month	Day	Time	End Year	End Month	End Day	End Time	Display Date	Type	Headline	Text	Media	Media Credit	Media Caption	Media Thumbnail	Group	Background

2	-500									Event or Issue	Indigenous humans	Indigenous human tribes have been living without money (i.e., without markets) and without governments (i.e., without States) for tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of years.
3	-400									Book	The first record of a circular city: the book "Atlantis" by Plato	Plato acquired the story, "Atlantis", through his ancestor, Solon. Solon was a famous Greek lawmaker who had visited Egypt circa 600 BC where he was told the story of Atlantis by the priests of the temple of Neith (note that this temple no longer exists, except for a few tumbled stones). The book, "Atlantis", is the first known record of a circular city. In the book, Plato describes the city of Atlantis as generally circular, Plato writes, "[the city]...making alternate zones of sea and land larger and smaller, encircling one another; there were two of land and three of water, which he turned as with a lathe, each having its circumference equidistant every way from the centre, so that no man could get to the island, for ships and voyages were not as yet..." (Note that this is a translation of the text).
4	1833									Book	Many texts critiquing society and offering community-type solutions	Around the 1800s, many writings were produced that provided a critical perspective on the market-State (capitalism), proposing different societal and production models as a solution to better material environments, and in effect, produce community-type living. The most well-known of these authors are: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
5	1833									Book	Book: The Paradise within the Reach of all Men, Without Labor, by Powers of Nature and Machinery	By John Etzler	https://archive.org/services/img/paradisewithinre00etzl
6	1854									Published Vision	The Happy Colony of Robert Pemberton	The two illustrations as given in the publication of the Happy Colony in 1854 indicated a circular lay-out. ‘Right angles are opposed to the harmony of motion’, according to Pemberton, ‘and in a town there must be motion’. He was further convinced that the bad formation of towns had an influence on the bad formation of minds.	https://quadralectics.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/668.jpg?w=640&h=649
7	1888									Book	Looking Forward: 2000-1887	Edward Bellamy writes one of the best fiction-based stories of life in a community-type society where all goods and services are made free through intelligent design.
8	1894									Published Vision	The Human Drift by Gillette	A pamphlet written by the Chicago-raised businessman, Gillette (who founded the shaving company by the same name), was published in 1894. The pamphlet advocated and described, proposed, a beautifully architected network of moneyless cities. Gillette wrote, "I here reiterate what I have said before, that no system can ever be a perfect system, and free from incentive for crime, until money and all representative value of material is swept from the face of the earth." He goes on to say, money will ... "pass into the oblivion of an ignorant age". http://urbanplanning.library.cornell.edu/DOCS/gillette.htm
9	1898									Book	Book: Garden Cities of To-morrow	By Ebenezer Howard. The original title was, "To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform". Howard’s visionary plan of a restorative way of life was to create a network of circular social cities with natural and healthy living spaces, and each city catering for around thirty-two thousand people.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Garden_Cities_of_To-morrow_title_page.jpg	Wikimedia
10	1919									Book	Founding of Technical Alliance by Howard Scott	The Technical Alliance was a group of engineers, scientists, and technicians based in New York City, formed towards the end of 1919 by American engineer Howard Scott. The Alliance started an Energy Survey of North America, aimed at documenting the wastefulness of the capitalist system. The Technical Alliance was the forerunner of Technocracy, Inc. “By coordinating the industrial process; by operating all industries as one agency for one definite purpose; producing and distributing the things that people want so that an abundance of everything shall be accessible to all.” - Howard Scott	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/Members_of_the_Technical_Alliance_at_Columbia_University%2C_1930.jpg/1280px-Members_of_the_Technical_Alliance_at_Columbia_University%2C_1930.jpg
11	1920									Specification	Many texts describing formulas that would allow for econoomic calculation through computation	Advancement and development of social economic calculation.
12	1921									Book	Book: The Engineers and the Price System	The Engineers and the Price System, by Thorstein Veblen, is a compilation of a series of papers originally published in The Dial in 1919, each of which mainly analyzes and criticizes the price system, planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity
13	1923									Published Vision	Published vision: The circular town network of German architect Ernst Gloeden	German architect Ernst Gloeden proposed nuclear towns with a circular plan (fig. 536).	https://quadralectics.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/536.jpg?w=640&h=623
14	1928									Published Vision	Published vision: The Dymaxion House is designed	R. Buckminster Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times — all of them factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended to be suitable for any site or environment and to use resources efficiently. A key design consideration of the design was ease of shipment and assembly.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Dymaxion_house.jpg
15	1930									Book	Fundamental principles of communist production and distribution	The Group of International Communists in Holland published the Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution.
16	1932									Book	Book: Bertrand Russell wrote “In Praise of Idleness”	“Modern technique has made it possible to diminish enormously the amount of labor required to secure the necessaries of life for everyone….. [T]he road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.” http://www.panarchy.org/russell/idleness.1932.html
17	1932									Founding	Founding of Technocracy Inc.	Howard Scott and Marion King Hubbert founded Technocracy Incorporated, and proposed that money be replaced by energy certificates. The group argued that apolitical, rational engineers should be vested with authority to guide an economy into a thermodynamically balanced load of production and consumption, thereby doing away with unemployment and debt. "Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population..." Technocracy Inc. advocated for a no-growth, fully automated economy without politics - a system entirely run by scientists and engineers. Technocracy claimed the economy would develop to the point of full automation, and then steady-state. The idea had many advocates at the time, but was never sufficiently designed and documented. Note that the system described by The Auravana Project is not Technocracy and is not technocratic, although it does have some similarities and could be considered a predecessor.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Silver_red_monad.png
18	1948									Book	Book: Walden Two	By B. F. Skinner provides an early highly incomplete fictional narrative of community in which decisioning is not authoritarian, anarchic, or even democratic. The novel describes "an experimental community called Walden Two". The community encourages its members "to view every habit and custom with an eye to possible improvement" and to have "a constantly experimental attitude toward everything".	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ec/Walden_Two_cover.jpg/220px-Walden_Two_cover.jpg
19	1950									Published Vision	Paul Maymont's Maquette de la ville flottante Thalassa	Paul Maymont a publié, lui aussi, un projet de ce que pourrait être une ville lunaire. De profil, elle ressemblerait à une sorte d'éventail ouvert.
20	1958									Published Vision	Published vision: Frobisher Bay Plan	A series of 12-storey round apartment towers would have been built around the dome to house the city's residents. An elevator in the towers would have let residents off right inside the dome so there would be no need to go out in extreme winter weather. http://polarpilots.ca/images/stories/docs/Frobisher%20Bay%20plan1958.pdf	https://i.cbc.ca/1.2763947.1410483100!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/iqaluit-dome-city-plans-1958.jpg
21	1958									Published Vision	Published vision: A floating marine city	Kiyonori Kikutake published a vision of a floating city with 900 foot high cylinders to accommodating 5000 people.	http://db.flexibilni-architektura.cz/media/cache/88/e2/88e25e6dbd233467c6f3abf996232030.jpg
22	1959									Published Vision	Published vision: Floating City of Liquid Villas	William Katavolos published a vision of a city in which he proposes an interaction between the user and all elements of the city (which could be quite compatible with the development current 3D printers for plastics).
23	1960									Published Vision	Published vision: Suspended circular city	Paul Maymont published a version of the circular city with the tip pointing upwards, which could have been hanging around piers, either on land or sea.	http://db.flexibilni-architektura.cz/media/cache/15/17/151750aaf9705d2382145d4d4e333117.jpg
24	1960									Published Vision	Published vision: Circular city by Paul Maymont	The French architect Paul Maymont designed in 1960 as an artificial atoll Thalassa, which should have been placed in front of the Principality of Monaco to expand the tiny area, amphitheater-shaped, and connected to the mainland by a causeway. Would have its own marina, sandy beaches, swimming pools and gardens, as well as an underwater park for 4500 vehicles.	http://db.flexibilni-architektura.cz/media/cache/de/1d/de1db0a85a4fa277a63002fed0663711.jpg
25	1960									Published Vision	EPCOT (Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow)	Walt Disney's Original Plan for EPCOT (Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow) on Youtube. Disney wasn't promoting a community-type socio-economic system, but there was thoughtful design into the integrated "EPCOT" city. https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/epcot-origins-walt-s-epcot	https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/_/rsrc/1472855810029/epcot-origins-walt-s-epcot/092712_FS_FromTheArchives_EpcotOrigins_WaltsEpcot_2.1tag.jpg
26	1960									Technology	Development of the Internet	The Internet started in the 1960s as a way for government researchers to share information.
27	1961									Published Vision	Published vision: Circular city on the water by James Fitzgibbon	In 1960, James Fitzgibbon envisions a circular city on the water, which is published by Archigram in 1961.
28	1962									Event or Issue	OGAS (Russian: Общегосударственная автоматизированная система учёта и обработки информации, All-State Automated System)	A Soviet project to create a nationwide economic information network. The project began in 1962. It was one of a series of attempts to create a nationwide network, analogous to what became the Internet, all of which failed. A previous proposal for a national computer network to improve central planning, Anatolii Kitov (ru)'s Economic Automated Management System, had been rejected in 1959 because of concerns in the military that they would be required to share information with civilian planners. Glushkov proposed OGAS in 1962 as a three-tier network with a computer centre in Moscow, up to 200 midlevel centres in other major cities, and up to 20,000 local terminals in economically significant locations, communicating in real time using the existing telephone infrastructure. The structure would also permit any terminal to communicate with any other. Glushkov further proposed using the system to move the Soviet Union towards a moneyless economy, using the system for electronic payments. The project failed because Glushkov's request for funding on 1 October 1970 was turned down. The 24th Communist Party Congress in 1971 was to have authorised implementation of the plan, but ultimately endorsed only expansion of local information management systems. Glushkov subsequently pursued another network plan, EGSVT, which was also underfunded and not carried out. Soviet network plans failed while the American ARPANET succeeded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/OGAS.jpg/300px-OGAS.jpg
29	1964									Published Vision	Published vision: Circular city by Paolo Soleri	Paolo Soleri publishes a vision for a floating city for 2.4 milion people. Paolo Soleri later went on to found Arcosanti.	http://db.flexibilni-architektura.cz/media/cache/1b/e9/1be95045863d469c339b91b895509247.jpg
30	1964									Published Vision	Published vision: Gruen’s “cellular city”	Gruen’s 1964 design of the “cellular city.” He described these cities as organisms or galaxies. Each town is like a cell, with a town center acting as a nucleus. These cluster together to form cities, which he likened to organs. Then the super organism is the “metropolis of tomorrow”: a collection of cities grouped around a metropolis core. http://www.museumofthecity.org/project/the-gruen-effect/	http://www.museumofthecity.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/urban-planning-4.png
31	1964									Book	Book: The Heart of Our Cities	Urban crisis, a diagnosis and cure by Vitor Gruen. Gruen believed that there was an underlying cellular nature to a properly built community. If the basic unit of life is a cell, and millions of cells can come together to create an organism, he reasoned that an urban structure based on cells (clusters of mixed-use development) would be the healthiest system. The benefit of a cellular urban organization is that it can be scaled as small as a home or as large as the size of a metropolis.	https://sites.google.com/site/theoriginalepcot/_/rsrc/1472855805641/epcot-and-the-heart-of-our-cities/windows_sm.jpg
32	1967									Specification	The Minnesota Experimental City (MXC) Project	In the United States, the project had the support of NASA engineers, Civil Rights leaders, media moguls, famed architect Buckminster Fuller, and even vice president Hubert Humphrey. “The urban mess is due to unplanned growth..." -wrote Spilhaus in his 1967 proposal for the experimental city. Spilhaus’ vision for this noiseless, fumeless, self-sustaining city included underground infrastructure for transporting and recycling waste; a mass transit system that would slide cars onto tracks, negating the need for a driver; and computer terminals in every home that would connect people to his vision of the Internet. http://zachmortice.com/2017/10/20/experimental-city-sci-fi-utopia-never/
33	1968									Book	Published vision: The Futuro House Project	A project that designed a series of integrated and efficient architectural circular homes. The Futuro House was conceived by Matti Suuronen in 1968 as a "portable" ski chalet. Charles Cleworth as a significant investor. http://www.thefuturohouse.com/Futuro-House-Charles-Cleworth-Archive-Plan.html Victor Gruen Architecture D'Aujourd'Hui 88 Feb 1960: http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/13372/524414/1960-Victor_Gruen-Architecture_DAujourdHui-88-Feb-87-web_905.jpg	http://www.thefuturohouse.com/images/cleworth/fut_corp_stock_08_small_p.JPG
34	1968									Book	Book: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth	By R. Buckminster Fuller	https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiYncSdp4zPAhVBthoKHXKlBsgQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fabout%2FOperating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth.html%3Fid%3DhoIErgEACAAJ%26source%3Dkp_cover&psig=AFQjCNG8JLyfncj_A3HyBlAEXv5aiEFtsg&ust=1473854828496708
35	1969									Book	Book: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity	By R. Buckminster Fuller	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BuckminsterFuller1.jpg
36	1969									Book	Book: Looking Forward	By Jacque Fresco and Kenneth Keyes	http://server3.docfoc.com/uploads/Y2016/05/08/lOGsKoAgQI/thumbs.jpg
37	1970									Event or Issue	Second-order cybernetics development	Second-order cybernetics developed significantly during the late 1960s through the mid 1970s. Second-order cybernetics (a.k.a., the "cybernetics of cybernetics"), is the recursive application of cybernetics to itself. The application of second-order cybernetics to the dynamics of the real world leads to automated service systems.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SOCyberntics.png
38	1971									Book	Founding of Sociocyberneering Inc.	Sociocyberneering Inc. founded as a non-profit organization by Jacque Fresco as a membership organization claiming 250 members (according to an interview with Fresco). Eventually, Fresco's membership group was discontinued. Fresco then (or around then) purchased land rural Venus, Florida (USA) where Fresco established his home and research center (The Venus Project).
39	1971									Event or Issue	Project Cybersyn (1971-1973)	Cybersyn research project was a Chilean project from 1971–1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy. The project never made it past the prototype stage, and was developed by the Chilean socialist government at the time and Stafford Beer. Project Cybersyn was based on viable system model theory and a neural network approach to organizational design, and featured innovative technology for its time: it included a network of telex machines (Cybernet) in state-run enterprises that would transmit and receive information with the government in Santiago. Cybersyn stood for cybernetic synergy; the name "cyber" was used in reference to the underlying science, and "synergy" in reference to the whole was seen as more than the sum of its parts. The design necessitated factories that would be run by the State. Factories would be tasked with production, if factories missed a production schedule, then an alert would be sent to the State to intervene from above to help fix the problem) problem. This system was assumed to enable top down intervention while preserving individual liberty. The designers also developed a plan for worker participation. The workers were to be included in the design of the models for the factories that informed the statistical software. For example, the workers could identify which indices of production are important and what range of values are acceptable. The project consisted of four modules: an economic simulator, custom software to check factory performance, an operations room, and a national network of telex machines that were linked to one mainframe computer. The following four components were given the name Cybersyn: 1) Computer network - A network of telex machines that transmit data about the factories where they are located to a central control room where a computer is located to process the data. 2) Statistical processing by software (named, Cyberstirde) - a customized suite of software that would run on the main computer. It would take the data from the factories as input and it would run statistical processing to figure out what that data meant. The results were intended as input for human economic decision makers. The software would allow for dynamic reactions by decision makers. 3) Economic simulator - an indirect mapping of the economy that would allow economic decision makers to test our different economic scenarios. 4) A control room for government and labor leaders to observe data projected on the walls and make decisions. Informed by data.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/70/Cybersyn_control_room.jpg/350px-Cybersyn_control_room.jpg
40	1975									Book	Book: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking	By R. Buckminster Fuller	http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQz5RuqNvNavf2o6a4xGB09H7iHGUIV4xQPXb1thK6dvaO-9CtF
41	1975									Technology	Socialist economic calculation method developers wins Nobel Prize for Economics	Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich shared the Nobel Prize for Economics with Tjalling Koopmans for their work on the optimal allocation of scarce resources. Kantorovich's accomplishments in socialist economic calculation started in 1938 when Kantorovich realized that the problem of maximizing the distribution of raw materials could be solved in mathematical terms. The linear technique he developed is now called, “linear programming.”
42	1977									Book	Book: Introduction to Sociocyberengineering	By Jacque Fresco	https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6974978-M.jpg
43	1987									Book	Star Trek the Next Generation television show begins airing	Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series 1987–1994). The television series is set in a moneyless society where humanity has eliminated unnecessary human suffering and the need for accumulating possessions. See linked videos below.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/TNGopeninglogo.svg/250px-TNGopeninglogo.svg.png
44	1990									Book	Book: Circular City: A Socialist Project	By Philip Sharnoff. Sharnoff proposed a rudimentary, experimental, circular city as a solution to the major problems of modern cities. Note that in 1983, Sharnoff published "Principles of Scientific Socialism".
45	1991									Event or Issue	Project Biosphere 2	Biosphere 2 is an Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. Biosphere 2 was originally constructed between 1987 and 1991. The first closed mission lasted from September 26, 1991 to September 26, 1993.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biosphere_2_Habitat_%26_Lung_2009-05-10.jpg
46	1995									Book	Book: The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture	By Jacque Fresco
47	1995									Founding	Founding of The Venus Project (TVP)	The Venus Project was Founded by Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows. The project was named after the location the town in which their "research center" was established (Venus, Florida, USA).	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/The_Venus_Project_logo_and_wordmark.svg/2000px-The_Venus_Project_logo_and_wordmark.svg.png
48	1996									Founding	Founding of Internet website www.worldtrans.org	The first website to help share ideas, resources, connections, information, and inspiration aimed at growing, creating or discovering a world that works better for everyone. The website is still in existence.
49	1998									Video	Video: Welcome to the Future	The Venus Project
50	2002									Book	Book: The Best that Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War	By Jacque Fresco. This book envisions a global civilization in which science and technology are applied with human and environmental concern, offering a standard of living far beyond anything ever imagined in the past.	http://images.betterworldbooks.com/096/The-Best-That-Money-Can-t-Buy-Fresco-Jacque-9780964880672-md.jpg
51	2002									Video	Video: Cities in the Sea	The Venus Project
52	2002									Video	Video: Self-Erecting Structures	The Venus Project
53	2006									Video	Video: Designing the Future	The Venus Project	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uphxFHnVv1E/maxresdefault.jpg
54	2007									Book	Book: Designing the Future	The Venus Project
55	2008	10								Video	Video: Zeitgeist: Addendum	Produced by Peter Joseph. This documentary makes The Venus Project "famous" and globally known.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_(film_series)#/media/File:Zeitgeist-addendum-poster.jpg
56	2008									Book	Founding of The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM)	The Zeitgeist Movement was established in 2008 by Peter Joseph and advocates a transformation of society and its economic system to a non monetary system based on resource allocation and environmentalism.	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/TheZeitgeistMovement_logo.jpg
57	2009									Book	Book: Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent Humanity	by R. Buckminster Fuller (Author), Jaime Snyder (Editor)	https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiDjtLHp4zPAhVLuhQKHe80DwUQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fabout%2FEducation_Automation.html%3Fid%3DJSeOPgAACAAJ%26source%3Dkp_cover&psig=AFQjCNEQVRmDGIx-MOTAyU3h3MXYGpQueg&ust=1473854916798227
58	2009	3	17							Event or Issue	The First ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)		http://zdayglobal.org/images/stories/screen%20shot%202014-01-12%20at%206.19.01%20pm.png
59	2009	6								Founding	The Resource-Based [Abundance] Economy blog started	http://www.theresourcebasedeconomy.com/
60	2010	3	17							Event or Issue	The Second ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)		http://zdayglobal.org/images/stories/zeitgeist-2010-world-event-map.jpg
61	2010									Legal	Failed attempt to trademark the term 'Resource-Based Economy' by Jacque Fresco	Jacque Fresco failed in his attempt to trademark the term Resource-Based Economy with the government of the United States of America. A review by the government found the term to be "too general".
62	2011	1								Video	Video: Zeitgesit: Moving Forward	Produced by Peter Joseph.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist_(film_series)#/media/File:Zeitgeist_Moving_Forward.jpg
63	2011	3	17							Event or Issue	The Third ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)		http://zdayglobal.org/2011%20MAP.png
64	2011	4								Event or Issue	The Venus Project splits with The Zeitgeist Movement	Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows claim irreparable disagreement with Peter Joseph and the Zeitgeist movement. Subsequently, Fresco and Roxanne begin restricting all usage and/or modificaiton of TVP work. TVP also removed all associations with TZM from their published materials. The Venus Project then established TVP Activism (TVPA) as a volunteer point-of-contact (POC) structure similar to The Zeitgeist Movement's chapter structure.
65	2012									Video	Video: Paradise or Oblivion	The Venus Project	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KphWsnhZ4Ag/maxresdefault.jpg
66	2012	3	17							Event or Issue	The Fourth ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)		http://zdayglobal.org/images/stories/screen%20shot%202014-01-12%20at%205.47.21%20pm.png
67	2012									Video	Video: Culture in Decline	The first episode of Culture in Decline is released by Peter Joseph on YouTube
68	2012	10	14							Book	Book: Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy	By Federico Pistono	http://robotswillstealyourjob.com/sites/robotswillstealyourjob.com/files/images/robots-cover-en-3d.jpg
69	2013	3	17							Event or Issue	The Fifth ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)		http://zdayglobal.org/images/stories/screen%20shot%202014-01-12%20at%205.47.21%20pm.png
70	2013	11	13							Event or Issue	The Venus Project's kickstarter campaign for "The Choice is Ours" is successfully funded.	The Venus Project successfully raised $76,768 USD with 1,372 backers on Kickstarter.	https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/011/559/804/d843bd167949795d17e40fffa351a5c8_original.jpg?w=1536&h=864&fit=fill&bg=000000&v=1463684472&auto=format&q=92&s=da65bbd7c54891820b43decefd49f98e
71	2013									Founding	The Venus Project Magazine (TVPM) releases its first issue
72	2013	7								Founding	Founding of The Auravana Project (TAP)	The Auravana Project is established to facilitate the collaborative emergence of community through the openly shared design, construction, and operation of a socio-economically unified network of integrated city systems in which purposefully driven individuals are fulfilled in their development toward a higher potential state of human experience for themselves and all others.
73	2013	7	15							Specification	Auravana Project releases version 1.0 of the Social System and Decision System Specifications	The first ever Social System and Decision System specifications for a fulfillment-oriented, resource-based community are released to the public.
74	2013	9	1							Video	Final episode of Culture in Decline	Produced by Peter Joseph on Youtube.
75	2013	3	10							Founding	Founding of The Money Free Party	The Money Free Party promotes an open access, money free society, and gathers democratic consent for an open access, money free society.	http://moneyfree.party/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/logoMFPNZ_300px.jpg
76	2014	3	15							Event or Issue	The Sixth ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)	Main event held in Toronto, Canada.	http://zdayglobal.org/images/stories/screen%20shot%202015-01-18%20at%206.15.52%20pm.png
77	2014									Book	Book: The Zero Marginal Cost Society	By Jeremy Rifkin
78	2014	10								Specification	Auravana Project releases version 1.0 of the Lifestyle System Specification	The first ever Lifestyle System Specification for a fulfillment-oriented, resource-based community are released to the public.
79	2014	12								Specification	Auravana Project releases version 2.0 of the Social, Decision, and Lifestyle System Specifications
80	2014	1								Book	Book: The Zeitgeist Movement Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought	By The Zeitgeist Movement, Peter Joseph (Editor), Ben McLeish (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Berkowitz (Editor).	http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/uploads/upload/file/19/The_Zeitgeist_Movement_Defined_PDF_Final.pdf
81	2015	3	14							Event or Issue	The Seventh ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)	Main event held in Berlin, Germany.
82	2015	4								Specification	The Auravana Project releases version 2.1 of the Social, Decision, and Lifestyle System Specifications
83	2016									Video	Video: The Choice is Ours	The Venus Project releases the complete documentary film crowdfunded on Kickstarter for USD $76,768 in 2013.	https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Yb5ivvcTvRQ/maxresdefault.jpg
84	2016	3	26							Event or Issue	The Eigth ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)	Main event held in Athens, Greece.
85	2016	6								Legal	The Zeitgeist Movement establishes a US-based 501c3 Non-Profit organization.		https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/3536836815/407d7003b950fa68dea13b51461bddb6_400x400.png
86	2016	7	19							Specification	Auravana Project releases version 2.2 of the Social, Decision, and Lifestyle System Specifications
87	2016	8	10							Legal	The Venus Project files a copyright claim on YouTube against The Auravana Project	The Venus Project corporation filed a copyright claim against the The Auravana Project's first video description of 'Circular Cities in Community'. In response the Auravana Project created a webpage entitled "Conflict Resolution" so that there would be a public record, and steps could be taken to limit the occurrence of future conflict.
88	2016	11	9							Event or Issue	TVP Magazine incorporated into TROM	The Venus Project Magazine has been disbanded, and all content not owned/copyrighted by The Venus Project corporation has been incorporated into TROM https://www.tromsite.com/	https://www.tromsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/trom-5-1024x274.png
89	2016	5								Book	Book: The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph	The book argues against the long-standing narrative of universal scarcity and other pervasive, legitimizing myths that defend a state of limited human fulfillment. The book presents the case for an updated economic approach.	https://www.amazon.com/New-Human-Rights-Movement-Reinventing/dp/1942952651
90	2017	3								Event or Issue	The Ninth annual ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)
91	2017	5								Death	Death of Jacque Fresco (Founder of The Venus Project)	The founder of The Venus Project, and a significant contributor to this direction, died in May of 2017. Roxanne Meadows writes an open letter informing the public of his death. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1483820655014914&id=152157788181214	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Jacque_Fresco_and_lemon_tree.jpg/220px-Jacque_Fresco_and_lemon_tree.jpg
92	2017	7								Published Vision	First virtual reality circular city experience	The Auravana Project produced a virtual reality experience of a circular city configuration. Contributors 3d modeled out a circular city configuration, then imported the models into a simulation/game engine, and subsequently made the experience, models and other content open source so that everyone could improve and collaborate upon its design.	https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4309/35352568194_f1d79f3b93_b.jpg
93	2018	2								Book	Book: New Edition of The Best That Money Can't Buy by Jacque Fresco (2nd hardcover edition)	The Venus Project released a new edition of The Best That Money Can't Buy by Jacque Fresco (2nd hardcover edition). From the 1st edition to the 2nd there has been no significant changes to the text. There has been a change to the size of the book (it is smaller and easier to carry) and images (new, high-quality renders), and some new captions.	https://www.instagram.com/p/BgozQ6MA5rt/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
94	2018	3								Founding	Founding of Resource Based Economy	The Venus Project establishes a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charitable organization called 'Resource Based Economy' (https://www.resourcebasedeconomy.org/). The organization's first project is the physical development of a Center for Resource Management.
95	2018	4								Event or Issue	The Tenth ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)	Main event held in Frankfurt, Germany on 7 April 2018.
96	2019	3								Event or Issue	The Eleventh ZDay (Zeitgeist Day)	Main event held in Argentina on 23 March 2019.
97	2019	11								Video	S.O.U.L. Documentary - A World Worth Imagining; Jacque Fresco - The Man with the Plan	The documentary, about the life's work of Jacque Fresco features the inspirational last interview of his life. S.O.U.L. jointly produced the film with Roxanne Meadows (co-founder of The Venus Project) and her team, to raise awareness of their elaborate concepts and plans to alter humanity's self-destructive course, offering us a well conceived system, beyond capitalism, in which our collective values serve our survival and inform us how to thrive as one human family.
98	2020	6								Specification	Auravana Project unifies the societal system and releases version 001 of each specification standard as the first citable standardized socio-techncal explanation for a community-type society	The project is now located at auravana.org (formerly .com). The societal standard publications have been completely revised and updated. The unification of the system's design is complete. We now have a project plan, an overview, and the material system. The publications have been professionalized and are now citable. The pdf versions remain free, and the print versions are available through Amazon.com. We also have over 1000 models representing the concept of operation of the societal system. This is a seriously significant release for the development of a resource-based economy and global human flourishing.
99	2021	3								Specification	Auravana Project publishes the System Overview [Societal Standard] in Portugues language	The Auravana System Overview of a community-type society was translated into Portugues.
100	2021	4								Founding	Moneyless Society Podcast	The Moneyless Society Podcast released its very first episode: Ep #1 Moneyless Society: The Origin Story
101	2021	10								Specification	AuraCurve Habitat Service System	Auravana releases the first version of the AuraCurve sub-project with a site plan, architectural plan, and a progress report. The webpage for the sub-project is: https://auravana.org/societal-overview/hss-auracurve/	https://auravana.org/wp-content/gallery/demonstration-city/auravana-city-network-AuraCurve-HSS-05-CC0-P0.jpg
102	2022	6								Specification	Auravana publishes version 2 of the societal specification standard (SSS)	Auravana releases the second version of the unified societal standard for community. This standard includes a project execution and habitat system document.
103	2022	11								Technology	ChatGPT 4 (Large Language Model, AI)	OpenAI (company name) released ChatGPT 3.5 & ChatGPT 4 to the public.
104	2023	1								Technology	Specific AI	During this time, multipel organizations are developing specific AI applications and various industries are adopting them throughout the global economy.
105	2023	3								Technology	Auravana Standards Working Group incorporation of AI LLM	Project Auravna standards working groups begin using ChatGPT AI to professionalize the standards, and also, to conduct discovery work for population of the standards. LLM stands for large language model.
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