Phase I: We propose the immediate establishment of the International META City Association. The purpose of this association would be primarily educational, utilizing newsletters, magazines, pamphlets, books, media presentations and traveling speakers to promote the META City concept.

The Association would also establish a network of interested individuals and organizations. These would not only propagate the basic concepts, but also coordinate the ideas and activities of various groups interested in such things as new energy resources, communications technology, space colonies, building design, and systems theory, in order to create a synergistic effort centering on the META City Concept.

Phase II: If the educational efforts are successful, within a few years we should be able to move to phase II, the raising of funds for the initial establishment of the Municipal Electronic Trade Association. At this point the M.E.T.A. would consist of two divisions.

1. The Educational / Informational Division which would expand its efforts to propagate the META concept, especially in developing nations.

2. The Research and Design Division which would provide the theoretical, technological and design basis for the implementation of the first META Cities.

During this Phase the META would establish two additional entities.

1. An Independent Foundation which would provide support for those individual or organizations seeking to pursue communications lifestyles.

2. The META Telecommunications Corporation, a profit making body, which would establish the first telecommunications lines linking interested cities, thereby providing practical experience for the eventual META City system. While a part of this endeavor would be experimental, it should also be able to offer, for a fee, important services to business interests. The success of the Communications corporation would be the first proof of the potential effectiveness of the META Concept.

Phase III: Which would be reached when the critical designs for communications, transportation and urban systems had been accomplished, At this point the META would add a third division, an implementation division. This group would lobby business, civic and governmental organizations and politicians in preparation for the final moves which would culminate in the international treaties and the establishment of the first META Cities.

Phase IV: The forth phase could be reached before end of the century would involve reorganization of the META with participating cities as the dominant members.

There are several reasons for this. The opportunity that the META system will afford to individuals should be open to as many types of people as possible. Moreover, as a communications-era system, it will employ far fewer people than would an industrial- era system of similar scope and complexity. It will be necessary to keep people moving through the system so as to give as many talented individuals as possible an opportunity to work within it.

Also, keeping a steady flow of people into and out of the system should help prevent it from degenerating into a closed bureaucracy and should help keep it open to fresh ideas and enthusiasms.

In addition, it should be anticipated that, in keeping with communications-era attitudes, fewer people will want to spend decades working within a single institution. After working for a time in the META system, many individuals will want to avail themselves of the new lifestyles that will be emerging in the next century. They will want either a greater diversity of living experience or they will want to settle down in one place, providing themselves and their families with a more rooted existence.

Those leaving the system should benefit society in various ways. If they choose or need to continue to lead a lifestyle which requires continued earned income, they may seek to apply the knowledge and experience gained from within the META system to entrepreneurial activities of their own. Some may seek to establish META villages or other institutions that can interface with the META system.

Hopefully, others will find that their savings and retirement income from the META system will prove sufficient for their material needs, allowing them to leave the work- for income system entirely, devoting themselves to creative leisure activities and voluntary involvement in their society. The kinds of knowledge and experience gained from working within the META system could have a significant impact when applied to social problems by former META Citizens in this volunteer capacity.