We contribute to the film through the Google Docs Waking Up collection.
Open Source
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
The license apply to the docs in the Google Docs/Drive Waking Up Movie Collection. This license does not apply to the finished film.
Guidelines
Here are the rules for contributing:
Waking Up is a collaborative movie and any contribution can be used or not be used, as it is, changed or used as inspiration for something else, whether it is submitted in The World, The Story or The Script. If one chooses to submit a ‘full story’ or a ‘full script’, this will be looked at as any other contribution in any length to be used or not used, changed or drawn upon in the final movie. Everyone’s ideas, writings and opinions are respected and welcomed and all comments and suggestions will be taken into account.
And here are the guidelines:
- The Purpose. The purpose of this movie is a ‘thought experiment’ to present what a future can be like a 100 years from now if humanity chooses a positive direction of love, sharing, giving, compassion and peace, and we update our values, social systems and technology accordingly. In this future there is no money or ownership (or at least looked at completely differently), and the global economy is something like a resource based economy. It’s a totally new world, but has gotten there through a long history of a 100 years from present time. It has a lot of new technology and values, but also contains elements of present time.
- The Time. Most of the action happens in the year 2112 with elements from present time and from the transition. 2112 is far away enough for us not to know exactly how it is going to look, leaving plenty of room to imagine the positive future we would like.
- The Concept. The concept used to tell the story is a person from present time who wakes up from cryopreservation in 2112. This leaves lots of room to present what this world looks like and how it works to the audience, since this person has to experience this new world for the first time, just like the audience. It can also create a lot of drama in terms of medical complications, meetings with old relatives, trouble with adjusting to the new world, and more. Only our imagination is the limit!
- The Characters. There will of course be several characters in this movie. The main character is set, and this is Benjamin (called Ben). He is the one waking up from cryo in 2112 after having been frozen in 2014. The other set character that exists is Aweena. She is from 2112 and is Ben’s guide in this world, showing him around and helping him start his life again. There will be several other characters in this film that will work as representatives for the different aspects in this world, and enhance the story.
- A Movie. Waking Up is a full feature length narrative film and not a TV series, short film or an ‘edutainment film’, even though it will definitely be educational in several aspects. But that will emerge through the story itself. We will probably end up with more than enough material for several movies, so a Waking Up 2 or even 3 and 4 might be possible in the future. Even prequels have been suggested. And of course, one does not exclude the other, so a TV series is not impossible either sometime.
- The Script. Everyone can contribute to The Script for this movie. We will not make a movie based on different peoples videoclips, as some might think. The movie will be shot as a standard feature film based on the written contributions we get in and the script we end up with.
- Language. All submissions has to be in english. If you’re not steady in english, there’s a translation button on the top (machine translation), and to submit you can use Google Translate, or a friend who’s steady in english.
I hope these guidelines serves as triggers for the imagination! :)
And of course, if you have any comment on the guidelines, please bring it.
You might also want to take a look at Resources For Writing before you venture on.
Let’s make this movie!
February 20, 2012 at 11:41 am
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February 20, 2012 at 10:37 am
In reply to American’s comment, I think this is an interesting point for discussion. We have the conundrum that, on the one hand we must extrapolate forward by a century to illustrate the technology we think will be in common usage – in an era that is several decades later then Ray Kurzweil’s anticipated singularity. On the other, we must try to avoid exceeding realistic expectations of what will be possible and stay within some guidelines to maximise feasibility. Perhaps something like Michio Kaku’s class 1 impossibilities might serve as a reference point?
February 2, 2012 at 9:25 pm
Dear Harald,
I heard about you and your project listening to Z Radio some time ago
and I was very impressed particularly the way you want to achieve your
goal by open source, so anyone can contribute to it.
I have got a couple of ideas for your project based on the more
important books I read mainly last year when I kind of came to a
better understanding about what’s going on and what’s not going on in
the world.
The books most influenced my thinking are:
Nick Cook: Hunt for zero point
Callum Coats: Living energies (based on the work of Viktor
Schrauberger)
Marc J Seifer: Life and Times of Nikola Tesla
Stefano Breccia: Mass Contacts
Jacque Fresco: The best that money can’t buy + Venus project
Jack Reed: Next Evolution (he conducted a 3 year research on consensus
decision making)
Walter Russell: The universal one (scientist and philosopher from the
first half of the twentieth century)
Russell had a completely new concept of the universe, physics and
chemistry. He drew up a different periodic table to Mendelev’s
including many more elements and he had predicted the existence of
many elements before they were discovered for example uranium.
I recommend to read all of these books if you are interested in
science.
So here are a couple of my ideas I have got so far, they are mostly
about technical and scientific aspects of life I think will be in the
future based on inventions that have already been achieved at least on
the drawing board but most of them have been built, tested and found
to be working as they had been predicted in theory.
The bottle(based on Viktor Schrauberger research on water)
We can artificially produce the highest quality spring water in a
machine. We can use sea water, river water or rain water. We need to
add minerals and it takes about one hour to create a fresh very tasty,
high quality drinking water. It gets negatively ionised during the
process so it is an excellent antioxidant for the body. We eradicated
cancer and many other diseases just by drinking clean water , eating
organic food and breathing our fresh cleaned healthy air. Everything
was so polluted on this planet previously that it was enough just to
breath to get long term health problems.
The bottle is very important. It has specially been designed for
maintaining the quality of water. It is made of composite material,
non-transparent so the sun’s rays cannot deteriorate it. It’s being
kept constantly at 4 degrees Celsius the water anomaly temperature
where it is the most dense by inbuilt temperature control. The inside
is designed to copy exactly the natural flow of water as it flows in
streams in twisty way. You’ve got to put the bottle cap back onto fast
once you have finished drinking otherwise the air oxidises it and you
loose the beneficial effect of it. We make new water every day as it
looses its negatively ionised quality of it in a day.
Transport (based on Viktor Schrauberger repulsin)
He invented and patented a flying saucer before and during the second
world war. Hitler forced him to work for him that’s where the German
foo-fighters came from. The Americans took all this technology with
them, the Russians also got hold of some of the drawings and technical
explanation when they raided Viktor’s house. I’ve just found a good
website about this:
www.antigravitytechnology.net/viktor_schauberger.html
My idea of transport in the future
We travel in a flying transport vehicle they were called flying
saucers in the old days. They are nice and convenient, completely
automatic you just need to give the required travel destination by
voice command. You can get to any point from anywhere on planet Earth
within 30 minutes. You can land in your friends garden or the remotest
place on Earth if you want to get close to nature or if you want to
visit a city there are special landing areas for that within the city.
All of the machines are in constant communication so they know where
each one of them at any point of time and place, we haven’t had any
accidents and there are tens of millions of them flying around. If you
want to travel you book a flyer and the one available closest is
coming to pick you up.
If you want to visit a different planet you may need more preparation
and training for your body as there are many different conditions you
have got to be ready especially if you want to visit some friends in
one of the distant galaxies.
People don’t travel as often and as far as one would think. There is
too much hassle to go through, you know different gravitation and air
pressure and you want to polish up your knowledge of the local customs
you don’t want to do something rude. We don’t even travel that much on
this planet because you don’t want to mess up your body clock. The
most widely favoured destinations are within a couple of hours of time
zones to East and West all the way from north to south from your home
if you don’t mind the temperature differences. People like being close
to nature and often try to find isolated spots to enjoy mother nature
at its best. That’s where you can meditate the best.
About Aliens
My idea would be to create a conversation about this topic. A
perfectly ordinary man would turn up and he would introduce himself as
someone from a different planet. The conversation would go on
explaining that we are all one we are the same. There are some human
looking aliens and many other types on the millions of naturally
habitable planets but we are the same inside we want the same. Even
humanity managed to grow up and achieve a higher level of
consciousness and we all understand today the working of the universe
based on the love principle and the opposites being in constant
balance. We all want the same we want to give and get love, clean air,
water, tasty and nutritious food. Relevant education based on the
scientific principle and the ability to freely express ourselves in
any art form. We learnt to love, respect, help each other and
cooperate for the highest good of all.
Cars are not the past
A lot of people love driving. There are some of the old transport
network kept for the adventurous types. Some of the old cities are
still maintained for all kind of adventure, leisure activities,
extreme sport, car and motor racing. All of the ones powered by
combustion engines are running on ethanol, produced in automated
aeroponic farms just as our food so it’s all environmentally friendly
and a special devise built in the exhaust pipes turns the fumes into
clean air by the process of transmutation. Electric cars are also
popular on the race track. They exelerate faster than combustion
engine driven machines and thanks to the technology of wireless
transportation of electricity invented by Nikola Tesla, they never run
out of juice and we need less volunteers for the maintenance work.
Some of the old railway lines are still operating mostly on places
with scenery view as nostalgy trains. All trains are running on
electricity or on hydron. Yes hydron, the element predicted by Walter
Russell to become the future of transportation. Lighter and about the
1/8th of the volume of hydrogen, safely transportable non-flammable,
easily transmutable from hydrogen what we have got plenty of. Rocket
building enthusiasts favourite for rocket fuel. Only the really
committed adventure seekers are happy to take a trip to Mars the
rocket way, nobody else wants to sit in a capsule for a month when you
can get there within half an hour in a saucer.
It’s all a bit patchy but that’s all I have got for now. I’ve got some
more ideas I haven’t written them down. Once you have got many
categories with many ideas you can pick your favourite.
Tell me what you think. I hope you don’t find them too sci-fi. We
should all have access to all these stuff for decades. Unfortunately
these ideas and patents have been bought up and hidden or destroyed by
people who want to control humanity and don’t want us to live happy
and carefree lives.
I love your project the timing is very good it will be a great success
I think.
I am going to support you every way I can with your project it is very
very important.
All the best
Joseph
January 29, 2012 at 6:52 pm
Hi Harald,
Here’s some additional plot material you may want to insert:
Back in 2014, Ben stops to see a news item, showing that a proposed program to set up a moon base for solar energy harvesting and low gravity pharmaceuticals research has been shelved because spiralling costs have rendered it unviable. He looks saddened, but sneers at the naivity of the planners for thinking they could get away with such foolishly optimistic dreaming in the real world of commerce. Besides, he has big money invested in a fracking operation that looks set to yield big returns, so world energy at least is in safe hands. At home his daughter criticises him for the cruelty of him having a tiger’s tooth pendant, but he assures her it was in a zoo, and died of old age.
After his awakening, he learns that humankind is still trying to repair damage done to the earth in the fossil fuel era, and to reset the atmosphere to the levels of oxygen and co2 that existed before the first industrial revolution. Through cloning, scientists are seeking to re-establish populations of several extinct species of animals, including the tiger and the Giant Panda, using DNA banks. They are having trouble finding enough DNA variation in the limited samples they have available to create a viable population. Ben remembers he has the Tiger’s tooth pendant still in his collection of possessions, from which a valuable extra DNA sample can be extracted to help increase the range of DNA variability available.
In order to safeguard the world against some serious electromagnetic activity from an ion cloud through which the earth is passing, scientists need to enhance the carbon nanotube space elevator array and complete some work in space that would enable Earth to complete a comprehensive solar energy harvesting array and radiation shield in space. Its the new zeitgeist of the age, The world is about to make the transition from a type 1 to a type 2 civillization. And Ben has everything he needs to become part of it…
January 30, 2012 at 2:14 pm
Cool, I like the idea about DNA variation and the tiger tooth, which I suppose can be based on science. But the space elevator and ‘solar energy harvesting’ on the moon…is that something that is based on real science, or only your imagination…?
January 30, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Hi Harald,
According to Physicist Dr Michio Kaku, with our current level of technology we can begin the transition into a type 1 civilisation, which is the term given by physicists to a civilisation which has united and harnessed the resources of its planet. A matured type 1 civilisation can achieve mastery over plate tectonics, and hence ultimately have control over earthquakes, volcanoes, the atmosphere and weather systems. We are currently a type zero civilisation, one whose power still depends on dead plants. Hence our transition into a RBE will also elevate us towards type 1 status. On this scale, a type 2 civilisation is one that has harnessed the power of its mother star, and a type 3 is one that has mastered interstellar travel to the point where it has harnessed the power of neighbouring stars.
I think an important message that Waking up needs to convey is that an RBE is not a fixed Utopian vision, and that there will always be new horizons to strive for and new problems to fix. I think Aweena’s world of 2112 should be one in which the RBE is long established, and has brought the world to the point where it is a mature type 1 civilisation. Once again the natural zeitgeist of that period would be in motion, so that people would start to anticipate the next step in our evolution. especially if for example ionised particle clouds in space were threatening environmental problems on Earth, and spurring us into conquering new horizons to find a solution. Carbon nanotubes are extended buckminster-Fullerine fibres, whose molecular structure is close to that of diamond, but in a ‘rolled chickenwire’ configuration. They are many times stronger than steel. Physicists have calculated that once carbon nanotubes can be manufactured at an unlimited length (they can currently be grown up to a few centimetres in length) then they will be strong enough to build a space elevator. See www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?m=20110706. I guess that to portray a world of 100 years hence, you’ll want to insert science which has a strong basis in current known research. If you read Michio Kaku’s book ‘Physics of the impossible’, this will be a useful guide.
January 30, 2012 at 5:11 pm
I had heard about the space elevator, but not in a while. ‘Harvesting solar energy’. How do you do that…?
I know about Kaku and his civilization types btw, and I agree. I also found this interview: www.spaceelevator.com/2011/07/michio-kaku-explains-the-space-elevator-for-the-daily-show.html
January 30, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I imagine there would be a growing number of automated space stations in geostationery orbit with various types of production facilities, taking advantage of zero gravity and direct solar energy undiminished by the atmosphere. I have seen an article about a concept for a giant solar panel array on the moon, beaming the energy back to Earth by laser. I don’t know how it would be efficiently recieved on Earth, but one might guess at a space elevator type structure acting as a lightning rod. A type 2 civilasation would involve an expansion of the space bourne technology to the point where there are newtorks of gigantic self replicating and maintaining machines in orbit around the sun that are free from the resource limitations of mother Earth, Humankind could then start building vast cities in space…
February 20, 2012 at 3:18 am
The Space Elevator is an ongoing project but the Nano Tubs cables cannot be manufactured at the sort of volume that would allow for thousands of miles of cable to be produced.
I think the Idea of an Orbital Airship will most likely prove more practical though.
www.jpaerospace.com
January 22, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I miss some challenges to the RBE model, I like the idea that you can only really see how well a system works if it’s stress tested. How about if after the main character realizes how this society is better, some sort of natural disaster partially destroys a city and we get to see how this new organization handles such thing? Both in terms of handling the chaos that ensues, saving people, helping each other, and also the aftermath, relocation, rebuilding and problems like food shortages, water, medicine etc.
January 23, 2012 at 8:23 am
Yes, we already had this stress test scenario in mind. We were just not sure what disaster it should be that would test the RBE. There are so many options and all possible disasters had already been shown in the movies. I think it should be something very different to make it not too boring.
January 20, 2012 at 5:34 pm
I’m so excited about this Harold!
I sense this is JUST the kind of film we need next. I believe people really need to be able to imagine what life could be like in and RBE. Ben McLeish with TZM talks about how, in an RBE, even the richest of rich would realize just how relatively impoverished they’ve been, because of how technology has arguably been so immensely held back in our profit-based system.
I can’t imagine a more compelling way to get that across viscerally than a full-length story-based movie. So three cheers for your efforts!!! Best of luck!!!!
January 16, 2012 at 5:39 am
Have you considered using kickstarter.com to gain awareness and raise funds for the project?
January 16, 2012 at 11:08 am
Oh yes.
It will come, but we’re gathering a bit more of a following first.
January 7, 2012 at 1:47 am
The human race, is divided by religion, race. languages, colors, and politics.
Also, one of the major issue that bothers me is the Interests on Money. The world should be free of interests in every aspect of our daily lives, and wars should be a thing of the past.
January 16, 2012 at 11:09 am
Absolutely. That’s kinda what we want to show in this film…
January 3, 2012 at 5:41 pm
I love that you… I mean we (the human family) are doing this! The idea for a RBE film produced by free collaboration popped into my head no less than thirty minutes ago. I quickly searched online to check if anyone else had come up with it and voila!
I’m a writer and an animation producer/director and am very interested to get involved (time permitted), but I’ll hold onto my initial story ideas until after I’ve read what others have thus far contributed so as not to be redundant.
As for rights, distribution, finances and the like, I think it’s worth looking into exploring every way possible to make the whole process free. As you mentioned, getting the film to as many eyes as possible is important, but I also feel that the unprecedented message behind the film’s way of delivery could potentially make headlines and create its own self-marketing. Also it would be good to avoid hypocrisy at all costs.
January 4, 2012 at 1:27 am
And you are very welcome!
December 6, 2011 at 1:17 pm
This is such a great project. I think it has the potential to help humanity become more open to the idea of a more just and technologically advanced society where humans can explore their potential. I think it would be a good idea to depict a society tht is not some kind of Utopia, but rather a society that also has issues that will arise as humanity evolves. One of the problems most people have with a Resource Based Economy is that they think it would be some sort of Utopia which is not true. Another thing that I was thinking about is that just as the main character struggles understanding this new society, this futuristic society also stuggles to understand the main character. This could be used as a way to make the audiance question some of ideologies of our society such as the monetary system or the idea of false prospeity where over 1 billion people starve around the world.
October 13, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Just pulling this out of my ass but CC0 seems like the way to go. “All rights reserved” is not in the spirit of this project, and it instantly makes one wonder what Harald’s motivations are.
October 13, 2011 at 7:10 pm
Yes, thank you, I’ve been thinking about what would be the best approach here. I just kept it ‘all rights reserved’ for now, until I saw what possible participants would say, since this is a collaborative work.
As you can see from below, I am ready to ‘wave all rights’. People can really do whatever they like with it later. And I see that this is basically the same as the ‘CC0′ level (creativecommons.org/choose/zero/).
To me, this is the best solution, and the way it will be in a true RBE. But maybe today it’s better to go with one of the higher Creative Commons, since we still live within a monetary system. I really don’t know.
Another thing is the film industry itself, which basically is a jungle of copyright. In any case, it would be good to simply bypass that, but I don’t know if it is that simple, when it comes to distribution, etc.
Of course, if the ‘CC0′ level is set from the beginning, everyone simply has to accept it. Don’t know how it will affect distribution, though. I DO want it to be possible for this film to be show in theaters around the world also, as I think the wider distribution it gets, the more people it reaches, and the better it is for the message.
A film can get millions of views on the web, like The Zeitgeist movies, but then theaters are sort of ‘out of the question’ after that. I’m thinking that if the film can get ‘normal distribution’ first, it can come out for free on the internet after. Not for monetary reasons, but to make it possible to spread the message in as many channels as possible.
Honestly, I want this to both be as free and ‘uncopyrighted’ as possible, but at the same time be able to reach a big audience, AND, at the same time be able to somehow pay actors, CGI folks, and all the people who will have to work very hard to make a film like this become reality.
I think I’ll post about it and get some more response.
August 25, 2011 at 6:12 pm
I think the project is still in the experiential stages. I don’t consider it as an issue at this point, but it is a topic to think about.
August 25, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Yes, I agree. But I will post the question later. It is a good exercise in rbe thinking to think about this question.
August 25, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Have you considered changing the status of the copyright to creative commons.
August 25, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Thank you Rhyehm. A good question. I’ve been pondering this for a while. Mainly not because of myself, but mostly because of other collaborators. Since at the moment, I don’t know what future collaborators might think about this. That’s why I for now have the ‘all rights reserved’ policy.
Personally, I could wave all ‘rights’ to all the material on this site, letting anyone make their own version of this film, if wanted. I think this would be the closest we could get to how it would work in a true resource based economy. The ones who wants to collaborate on one thing do that. Others might take the same thing and make something else. They can do that. That’s how it works anyway, only ‘hidden’.
I can of course demand that anyone who want’s to contribute waive all copyright, together with me, or we can set a creative commons level. But what should that level be? The simplest and ‘purest’ is to claim no copyright on it at all. Copyright is after all a product of capitalism and the monetary system.
I think that even if we wave all rights, we won’t suffer economically with this project, even in today’s monetary world. I’ve seen others do that on website content (blogs), music, etc. and still they earn on it. Like zenhabits.net/ for instance. Leo Babauta states that he waves all rights to the material, letting anone do anything they like with it. He doesn’t even demand credit. Seems like it works for him. He’s got 200.000 subscribers…
Maybe other collaborators can leave some comments on this? That would be helpful.