I just read a book called The First Civilization. It is an introductary look at the ideas of an RBE. I found the book on the TZM blogs but have attached a copy here for your conveninence.

The book doesn't really deviate from the ideas of Jacque Fresco but, for many, it is hard to get started with Fresco's ideas. After all, he has had about 80 years to refine them.

The discussion started on NicaLiving about using Windoze vs. Linux. It is the usual uninformed caca. But, we have moved on to applications software. My question, which I want to present here, is why is anyone still using Microsoft Office?

OpenOffice(.org) is an office suite which will look very familiar to users of Microsoft Office but have some significant benefits including:

• Support a true open format as well as Microsoft's proprietary format and quasi-open formats