Jacque Fresco - Venus Project, Florida - 27 December 2008 - Memory Metal 2 of 2

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

In this section Jacque is discussing and demonstrating Memory Metal.

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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[uea978]

genious!

[younitehumanity]

In the US there are so many laws it is unreal...and it is all to keep us in control. The VP wouldn't require even 99% of all of these laws...just the one "Golden Rule" : Treat others as you wish to be treated.

[packleader1215]

I get sooooo excited seeing all his work. Better than television

[dvzqz87]

fuckin fresco going to save the human species, im so excited for humanity

[sixxdegree]

It wont be a question of price in the new system its do we have the resources

[rcacad]

I remember the one lecture Jeaque did where he said Jimmy Carter was an asshole.......FUNNY

[rcacad]

nice!

[UnluckyGambler]

well the golden rule is a very primitive moral understanding, but yea, i dont think there will be any laws in the VP. it will be anarchy, but not a chaotic anarchy, it will be an orderly anarchy, for anarchy is the state of nature, and we are returning to nature not as wild beasts that we once were, but as civilized beings. education will teach our posteriors right and wrong, and how to live harmoniously with others and our environment.

[younitehumanity]

NOBEL Genius Prize for Jacque!!!

[renoo27]

Man it feels good to be in the know dunnit. :)

[renoo27]

And also, as Jacque said, most laws are put where they can't be bothered to think of a solution. :P And, yeah, I guess it's another method to keep us in line.

[stinkbra]

yea good on u...good luck with the price of a whole house's structure