There's something charming about this addition to the history of utopia, rooted in a time when the future was all capital F "Future" when it was simply given that man's rationality and technology could solve the big basic problems. Monorails. Cybernetics. A computer controlled economy.

In a resource-based economy, resources are allocated into the goods and services in consumer demand, based on factors of availability, sustainability and technological advancement. The role of money would be phased out, instead central computers serve a lineup of goods and services (see Star network), which citizens may order upon demand; central computers serve the lineup of goods based on sustainability and the latest in technological advancement; obsolete, unwanted, or unused goods would be recycled, reduced and/or reused, resource waste is a burden the system must eliminate to function efficiently. ... more »