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  • [ Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - The Venus Project ]

  • We feel it's really important to do a major motion picture now

  • to get to the general public,

  • to introduce to them what science and technology can do

  • under the direction of the Venus Project,

  • within a resource-based economy.

  • I think a motion picture can be played over and over again;

  • it can be translated into many different languages

  • and it could do far more than my personal lectures

  • because it travels all over the world.

  • And in a motion picture

  • you can answer all the questions that people ask.

  • We also feel, while Jacque is still alive,

  • he is the best person to put this film together.

  • He has worked all his life to arrive at this direction.

  • He hasn't just read books.

  • He has experimented and worked with people,

  • and worked with technology

  • and showed just how a resource-based economy

  • can function and what it will look like.

  • So, to us, it's very important to have

  • Jacque involved in this film.

  • The basic ideas for the film are laid out precisely,

  • and they're laid out

  • in accordance with the plans of the Venus Project.

  • If you don't have a public prepared to accept the Venus Project...

  • there is no other way.

  • All of the future scenarios in science-fiction films

  • are detrimental, are scary,

  • are... technology overcoming and killing people,

  • dictatorial governments and technology watching your every move.

  • This is quite the opposite of the Venus Project

  • for anybody who knows about it,

  • and this is what we want to get across to the public-

  • that you don't have to be afraid of technology.

  • We want to show how the methods of science can be used

  • to enhance everyone's life and preserve the environment.

  • If we spent the money any other way,

  • I don't think it would be as effective.

  • We need a large following to get this implemented.

  • People don't know what's missing; they don't know any other system.

  • So we want to show life in a resource based-economy,

  • then show flashbacks of how we get from here to there,

  • and do it in a entertaining way

  • so we could bring the public along with it.

  • The Venus Project's story is already fairly explicit

  • and what we need perhaps of a writer is putting it in terms

  • that might be easily understood or acceptable.

  • It will have a lot of CGI in it which is expensive

  • because it does take place in the future.

  • But it depends on when and what kind of funds we get.

  • That will dictate, say, the type of script;

  • the more funding, the more elaboration.

  • That depends on what people do to help support the project.

  • We would have information on the internet as to

  • how much has come in, where it's going to, and we have to do this

  • because we're aiming to get the donations through our

  • non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization called Future By Design.

  • And lawfully, everything has to be transparent and it would be.

  • If we do make a profit

  • we will build the first city

  • or we will do additional films, shorter films, but many of them.

  • People will walk out of this film

  • with the definite direction to work towards,

  • and knowing the difference between what they have today

  • and the possibilities of the future within a resource-based economy.

  • We want them to understand it so much so that they walk out and say,

  • "Why don't we live like this today?"

  • To donate go to www.thevenusproject.com

  • Thank you

[ Jacque Fresco & Roxanne Meadows - The Venus Project ]

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