Jacque Fresco - Venus Project, Florida - 27 December 2008 Space Station Mars Moon

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

In this section Jacque is discussing a space station between earth and mars or the moon.

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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[Watchdawg]

Hightech will eventually take over the jobs anyway, so you can cry all you want. Technology develops faster than peoples thinking does. You still got people doing hard physical work, and then you got machines building cars and other stuff. Enjoy the unemployment.

[RewardHonesty]

@FlashmoreGash Thanks, but it's not an oversight you dumb shit. Damn the world is full of ignoramuses, and you are certainly one of them. Go educate yourself and learn to use that pea size brain of yours. One of these days you might actually learn how to think for yourself.

[FlashmoreGash]

@RewardHonesty I really don't want to encourage you any further!...You're not Sherlock Holmes,nor are you intelligently enlightened regarding this whole conversation.

You peddle this fruit-loops(Jaqcue) hypothesis as fact,when its clearly seen to be nothing more than another socialistic/communistic utopian,lets all get together bs.

Its a veiled attempt at a power grab" nothing more!..

Your a fine example of what a world would be like based on psuedo bs led by conceited fools!I pray for u!

[RewardHonesty]

@FlashmoreGash Well, I have to admit that I got pulled down into the gutter with this idiot. Shame on me.

Utopia does not exist and we all know that. The rest of your post is drivel and useless. You offer nothing constructive, only generalized and immature remarks. Do you have a useful contribution to the betterment of humanity and to our planet? If not, what are you doing here? Let me guess....just holding onto and protecting the status quo. Do you not see massive problems?

[FlashmoreGash]

@RewardHonesty ps..have you ever heard of paragraphs?...lmao...Just thought i'd mention that little oversight of yours...You really are remarkably clever..lol

[FlashmoreGash]

One more time for the hard of understanding..lol This guy is a right fucking fruit loop!!

[FlashmoreGash]

@RewardHonesty lmfao! Trying to come across as intelligent and grammar perfect in a relaxed onsite setting is surely the height of a conceited individual!...

Even an average street kid in calcutta,given that he's had enough knowledge historically of utopian ideal ultimately turning into fuck-ups!,would see this Jacque for what he is,and what he offers...

Its only,or rather, generally psuedo intellectuals that grasp onto this decrepit branch Jacque has to offer because its so alternative..lol

[RewardHonesty]

@FlashmoreGash I rest my case. By the way, you should brush up on your grammar and punctuation. This might be a good start for you on your road to eventually developing enough gray matter and mental horsepower to understand Jacque :-) On a more serious note, your generalized statement is meaningless and doesn't promote any progress. Unless you are speaking in specifics then you are not really communicating. Let me know if you would like to engage in an intelligent dialogue or dialectic.

[FlashmoreGash]

@RewardHonesty This guys a fucking fruit loop

[RewardHonesty]

@FlashmoreGash Sorry but that's what all little, underdeveloped minds say when they try to understand an out-of-the-box, intelligent, forward-thinking pioneer.