Jacque Fresco - Venus Project, Florida - 27 December 2008 architecture

We visited Jacques Fresco and Roxanne Meadows, at the Venus Project in Venus, Florida, on 27 December 2008.

In this section Jacque is discussing architectural styles.

http://www.thevenusproject.com



Jacque Fresco is an industrial designer, author, lecturer, futurist, inventor, and a pioneer in the field of human factors engineering, based in Venus, Florida, USA. Fresco has worked as both designer and inventor in a wide range of fields spanning from biomedical innovations to totally integrated social systems. He believes his ideas would maximally benefit the greatest number of people and he states some of his ideas stem from his formative years during the Great Depression. In the mid-1970s, he started The Venus Project and the non-profit organization Future by Design together with Roxanne Meadows, that reflects the culmination of Frescos life work. To this day he writes and lectures extensively on subjects ranging from the holistic design of sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management and advanced automation, focusing on the benefits it will bring to society.

A major theme of Fresco's is the concept of a resource-based economy that replaces the need for the scarcity-oriented monetary economy we have now. Fresco argues that the world is rich in natural resources and energy and that — with modern technology and judicious efficiency — the needs of the global population can be met with abundance, while at the same time removing the current limitations of what is deemed possible due to notions of economic viability.

He gives this example to help explain the idea:

"At the beginning of World War II the U.S. had a mere 600 or so first-class fighting aircraft. We rapidly overcame this short supply by turning out more than 90,000 planes a year. The question at the start of World War II was: Do we have enough funds to produce the required implements of war? The answer was No, we did not have enough money, nor did we have enough gold; but we did have more than enough resources. It was the available resources that enabled the US to achieve the high production and efficiency required to win the war. Unfortunately this is only considered in times of war."

Fresco states that for this to work, all of the Earth's resources must be held as the common heritage of all people and not just a select few; and the practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter-productive to our survival.

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[malekith77]

we can make this reality

lets do it!

[powrboy77]

fresco is so badass

[heapscheers]

someone telecast the beheadings of ..say.. 20 world leaders and just say burn all the money u can find bla bla if not more will die bla small price to pay for epic freedomness i say and blow up the fed reserve, AND WALL STREET!

[vasgeorge]

@mucanamnam Yes , it is .

[mucanamnam]

@vasgeorge No, it's not.

[vasgeorge]

@mucanamnam its possible and very easy indeed.

[Juefawn]

'You don't own anything, you use it..."

[mucanamnam]

I want this to come true sooooo bad.

But it's impossible.

[mucanamnam]

@malekith77 No. Just follow Ron Paul.

[blaziermissy]

We're so accustomed to being exploited living out our lives in our buy/sale one up society that we don't trust our rationality to see that this project is the obvious answer. That's why so many people rebuttle with the label of "utopia."

They don't know how to respond to the aspects of living in a truly decent society...so they dismiss it and group it with fantasy notions. They feel that they're being deceived.

[rcacad]

Jeaque could easily get a contract to make childrens toys based around the idea of his all inclusive city. Kids could get the cars and the airplanes, then they could get the house with the garage.

I think it could easily be built in as an educational thing. Kids could get all kinds of booklets and pictures showing how the technology works and how to do designs..........MY KIDS WOULD LOVE THIS FUTURISTIC STUFF

[Neanderthalcouzin]

Most students don't take much interest in the world around them these days, and don't get together to debate, to discuss, to philosophize. It's a sad state of affairs. There's so much apathy among modern students. Everyone goes to University, it's just extended high school for most.

I wish I could meet people like Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco.