Alright, so I just watched zeitgeist the movie, and I figure that is what the last 2 posts have been talking about. What I was more thinking off is the Venus project mentioned at the end of Zeitgeist moving forward, this was apparently dreamed up by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco, who, frankly seems like a damn genius (dropped out of school at 14, taught himself maths/science/engineering and has patents out/helped create some clever stuff, gets thrown into similar piles as Nikola Tesla, da vinci etc).
Short run on this is cities based on short travel distances (giant circles, with rings for each need: housing, industry, agriculture, etc) no money, shared non-common tools/equipment, minimal distances for resources to be moved for production/use/manufacture, agriculture within city limits, accurate counts of all resources (planetwide, assuming we only have 1 planet, ergo if there are 1000 units of X on said planet, we have 1000 units of X, cant assume things will sort out once we run out, when its gone, its gone) maintained by computer, ditto for tool/equipment manufacture, building etc. Another big part of the thing is GDP is basically pointless if people are becoming unhealthy/unhappy from the production, happiness and health being the bigger concerns.
(yes I get this is probably a utopian pipe dream, but the idea still looks like there are more than a few interesting conversations in it)
Now at 4 am this struck me as a very DF like society (minus the elf drowning for profit and sock fetishes) so again, ill throw the thing out there and see what happens