The Star Trek I remember involved powerful adversaries such as Romulans, Borg, and Klingons. It was hardly "everything worked out". There were still the other guys, just that they were sufficiently alien to be defined away as a part of the day-to-day economy. Sometimes it wasn't clear who the haves and the have-nots were or ought to be, so there were phasers and various cleverness for resolving that. Large primary economies hosting second order economies that had perhaps more utopian properties -- but in the end it comes down to protecting the big primary economies (the federation) with the phasers. Speaking of Klingons,
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/07/welsh-government-uses-klingon-to-respond-to-serious-ufo-questions <http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2015/07/welsh-government-uses-klingon-to-respond-to-serious-ufo-questions/> ________________________________ From: Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Gillian Densmore <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:35 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; [email protected] Subject: [FRIAM] hmmm we'll see found this on slashdot: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/a-star-trek-future-might-be-closer-than-we-think/?_r=0 basicly it's a write up about a book arguing that a system that promotes peekpotential may well be the way to turn the US economic woes around. Specifically it argues for items, barter, and treknomics (what some Buhdists and Jedi do) is the only way to save the US economy
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