An article for new readers who might be interested in a better future for humanity.
All my life I’ve had a strong urge to fix things.
Gadgets and machines — and systems. Situations where people suffer even though, intuitively, it feels like they shouldn’t have to. That urge was always paired with something else: a deep concern for humanity, and a simple desire for everyone to be able to thrive.
Over time, one pattern became impossible to ignore. Again and again, the limits to human well-being traced back to the same source: money. How much you had of it. Or didn’t.
Everywhere I looked, money seemed to generate problems — inequality, stress, conflict, environmental destruction. Not because people were inherently selfish or cruel, but because the system itself was built on scarcity, competition, and exclusion.
That realization led to an obvious but uncomfortable question:
How do you fix a system that large?
For a long time, I couldn’t see an answer.
Then I encountered ideas that changed the frame entirely. The Venus Project had turned everything upside down. Instead of asking how to distribute money more fairly, they asked a different question altogether: Why is money there in the first place? What if, instead of managing prices and profits, we managed what actually exists — the planet’s resources, our knowledge and technologies, and our collective capacity to care for one another?
This way of thinking removes money from the equation and focuses on something more concrete: what we have, what we need, and how we can organize society so that everyone’s needs are met within ecological limits.
That shift fascinated me. Not as ideology, but as design. As engineering applied to civilization itself.
TVP had been exploring and sharing these ideas for decades, often with little traction. Inspired by their persistence, I didn’t want to write a political program or a manifesto. I wanted to explore what such a world would actually feel like.
So I chose fiction.
I began writing a story about a contemporary man who wakes up in a future where humanity has finally reorganized itself around cooperation, stewardship, and shared abundance. A world where the central question is no longer who can afford to live, but how can we make life work for everyone?
That story became Waking Up – A journey towards a new dawn for humanity.
Over the many years it took to write the book, new ideas naturally emerged — about technology, psychology, governance, ecology, human nature, and the story of the novel itself. All of them were woven into the story, not as lectures, but as lived reality.
Waking Up exists to explore a simple, unsettling question:
What would the world look like if we finally designed it to work — for people, nature, and for the planet?
If this question resonates with you, you’re already part of the conversation and I urge you to share this article.
If you would like to read the result of all these years of writing, you can find the book HERE. I thank you.
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