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  • This is a new science: socio-cyberneering.

  • And this is its inventor, the extraordinary Jacque Fresco.

  • He's my guest this weekend on News Weekend.

  • My guest is an extraordinary Miamian: Dr. Jacque Fresco.

  • I could go through all the things that Dr. Fresco has done.

  • He's a social engineer, industrial engineer, designer, inventor,

  • was a consultant for Rotorcraft Helicopter,

  • Director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles,

  • designed and copyrighted various items,

  • ranging from drafting instruments to X-ray units,

  • has had works published in the Architectural Record,

  • Popular Mechanics, Saturday Review, and has been a technical

  • and psychological consultant to the motion picture industry,

  • member of the Air Force design and development unit at Wright Field,

  • developed the electrostatic anti-icing systems,

  • designed prefabricated aluminum houses.

  • What does it say in your driver's license?

  • - What is the occupation?

  • - Industrial Designer ...

  • Social Engineer.

  • - Does it bug you that...

  • people, when they talk about Jacque Fresco in Miami, say that

  • he's someone who is, "Too far ahead of his time," his thinking is-

  • "We're not ready for advanced kind of thinking"-

  • of that type. Does it bug you?

  • - I imagine every creative person in every field

  • encounters that sort of problem. No, it doesn't. I can't afford it.

  • There's too many things that are important.

  • - What is socio-cyberneering?

  • - Socio-cyberneering is a new organization,

  • and it represents the application of the most sophisticated forms

  • of science and technology toward problem solving,

  • so that we can reclaim the environment

  • which we loused up over the years

  • and to build a way of life worthy of Man.

  • To humanize society, to break away from the artificiality,

  • the regimentation, that dominates our society today.

  • Our society seems torn apart, and pulled in many directions.

  • Socio-cyberneering is an approach

  • at the restructuring of society in humanistic terms.

  • - Humanistic terms? - Yes.

  • - The times I've spoken to you, you're very science and

  • technological-oriented. You want categories in people

  • ... classified in categories, certain people living here and-

  • - I never wanted that. - No.

  • - Let's say that we didn't read each other,

  • or I did not communicate the ideas.

  • In essence, to me, all of the marvels of science and technology,

  • all of the electronics and mechanical wonders,

  • are just so many millions of tons of junk,

  • unless it enhances the lives of men.

  • The reason we emphasize machines and technology

  • is to free Man, to go to

  • art centers, music centers, cultural centers,

  • and to find the meaning of their own existence and lives.

  • - How much can machines do? Can they

  • run the things that are necessary to run?

  • - Well, Mr. King, if we can

  • launch a rocket off the Earth while it's turning,

  • find a place on the Moon, land it automatically,

  • pick up samples of the soil, bring the ship back

  • without humans- I think the Russians have done this-

  • bring the ship back to the Earth, surely we can handle

  • airliners, or anything else with redundancy.

  • - The problem though is our political structure is:

  • How do you start changing a society this much,

  • which has really no political system?

  • - No, it has no political system.

  • It is not affiliated with any political party.

  • It is neither communist, fascist, nor socialist, nor democratic.

  • Socio-cyberneering is a sort of a quantum jump,

  • a severe departure in Man's way of thinking.

  • - How do you make a severe departure with millions of people?

  • - With millions of people, well, I think you pretty much understand that

  • most of the development we have in our society today-

  • the technology: the airplane, TV, radio,

  • modern production technology- is really done by very few people.

  • I would say several hundred people

  • comprise the modern technological civilization.

  • But you don't need millions of technicians and millions of scientists.

  • How many people that you know of today

  • sit in their home and play their phonograph, and radio and TV,

  • have any idea of how this works?

  • It's just happening around them...

  • - I don't have any idea. - ...and they're falling behind.

  • What is happening to Man is that his technological society-

  • the newer value systems that dominate our times

  • that are pressing onward- are just leaving behind

  • hundreds of thousands of people that cannot make the transition.

  • In other words, people that can't change

  • can be found in the Amazon jungle today: the head-hunters.

  • And we've got to change. I think the book "Future Shock",

  • or the book I've worked on, "Looking Forward".

  • "Future Shock" points out, that there are a lot of things

  • going to happen, whether you like it or not,

  • that the future cannot be stopped by anyone.

  • It is a continuous progression.

  • - But there'll always be large groups of people that have trouble handling it.

  • - Yes, this is true. - Look at the change of someone... - We agree.

  • - ...60 years old, who has seen unbelievable change in their lifetime.

  • - I believe they can change quickly

  • if the information is made available to them. In other words

  • to present socio-cyberneering in one shot is extremely difficult.

  • I believe that people should not be divided-

  • the youngsters, the adolescents, and finally the mature young adults

  • and then the older folks, are all divided people.

  • When you get to be 65

  • you don't want to travel on an ocean liner with old folks.

  • How come we put up these buildings for the old folks?

  • We think that people ought to live wherever the hell they want to live.

  • That cities must be designed so we have an integrated intelligent society.

  • Einstein, when he was 65, 70 years old, he would talk to youngsters.

  • He kept reading. He kept up with ideas.

  • Why must societies be divided into different groups?

  • We think that you're as young as your life permits you to be,

  • as your exposure, as your ideas.

  • - Alright let's- with pictures- explore the thinking of Jacque Fresco

  • and the society he'd like to see: socio-cyberneering.

  • Now, we'll start with this, and you tell me. - I'll try to point it out.

  • - Yeah, you can point right at it.

  • All of the new cities

  • will be a university, in essence.

  • The center of a city, the nucleus, will house

  • an electronic computer which only controls the weather,

  • water purification, the atmospheric conditions,

  • that is- it controls air contamination systems.

  • The computers do not, I say it again, do not control people.

  • They maintain safety, they oversee the environment,

  • maintain ecological balance between animal life and plant life.

  • All the machines do is control the physical entities

  • that comprise the environment.

  • The center of the city is a university.

  • A university that covers all subjects related to Man.

  • It is not a commercial university. It is not based on any-...

  • There are no courses that are used to exploit

  • or abuse any other human being.

  • All business courses will be phased out.

  • All repetitious jobs will be phased out.

  • We feel that machines ought to do

  • the filthy, or the repetitious, or the boring jobs.

  • That Man has to be free

  • to pursue the higher things, the higher possibilities of Man.

  • In other words, if this is the medical unit- this little branch-

  • and if you work in this center,

  • you may live in the garden cities that surround the center.

  • You don't have to. You can if you will.

  • Each of the garden cities contain lakes, recreation areas,

  • and between cities, we let everything go back to nature.

  • - Will computers be able to control the weather?

  • - This is a relatively easy project to manage.

  • - Easy to control? - Yes. - You could control the weather?

  • - I could go into that with you in a little while. - Alright.

  • - Can I finish that? - Oh, okay, sorry.

  • - On the outer rim of the city, we have the agricultural belt.

  • All of your garbage is compressed

  • and pumped, recycled out to the agricultural belt.

  • There are no garbage trucks. There are no dump fields.

  • We use everything. All waste is recycled.

  • This is an ecological program.

  • - Alright. Now, this is what the total city...

  • - The total city looks like this.

  • There are circular conveyor belts that take you

  • anywhere in the city in three minutes.

  • The city population in this particular city is 15,000.

  • We have larger cities designed, up to two million.

  • The cities are all immersed in beautiful gardens.

  • There are no trees in a row.

  • It is not a mechanical environment.

  • It is essentially a city immersed in a second Garden of Eden

  • where there are lakes, recreation areas,

  • art centers, music centers, cultural centers,

  • and surrounding the city we have the agricultural belt

  • where we grow foods hydroponically.

  • Between cities, we let everything go back to nature:

  • the deer, the coyote, the entire ecological balance is maintained.

  • - We grow foods, how? - Hydroponically.

  • - What's that? - Soil-less agriculture, in some instances.

  • And in other instances we use conventional agriculture,

  • which we'll get onto in the drawings as we go through the subject.

  • - Alright. What- before we get to the other pictures-

  • what jobs, that we now know, will not be present in this concept?

  • - Well, most. - Like garbage men, gone, right?

  • - Yes. All repetition. All people working in fact- - Mailmen?

  • - No mailmen, no waitresses, no waiters, no cooks.

  • - When you go out to eat, how will you get your food?

  • - Well, there are beautifully designed

  • areas for eating, in which you have all kinds of food.

  • Japanese, French food, organic food, and the standards if you like it.

  • - And how would it get to you? - The way the food gets to you-...

  • what we do is monitor the behavior of the cook.

  • That is, we do a multi-channel tape, on the best cooks that we know of.

  • And, as they prepare their food

  • we tape every move they make, and how they handle food

  • and how they dice the carrots, the way you like it.

  • Then you dial "2736", and you get the kind of food you want.

  • Chef Milani style, or individualized.

  • You can even tape your own cooking.

  • - I remember 5 years ago I used to laugh at you,

  • and now all this is very believable.

  • Alright, onward. What do we have here?

  • - Areas like India, where you have high population densities,

  • or areas like China, we just can't afford

  • to go on and make an individual house

  • for every human being. We just don't have that kind of energy.

  • Our population has already surpassed the point of no return.

  • We have to unify our architecture, not that I like it.

  • But we're trapped. We have to unify it and then make art centers,

  • music centers and gardens between the cities.

  • In India, this would only extend six miles.

  • And then you would have countryside, lakes, and hiking area

  • for most people. But, if you try to spread your cities out

  • as we're doing, you're going to louse up the entire area.

  • - Are you betting that people will not declare war on each other?

  • So that you can get at building all of this?

  • - Well, we don't have much choice. We're going to

  • destroy each other, or we're going to make it.

  • - Now, this looks like some sort of

  • submerged stadium, with something flying.

  • - In an area like Pennekamp Park, we might build

  • circular cities in the sea, where the water is about 30, 35 feet deep.

  • Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.

  • You can observe marine life and fish swimming by.

  • There will be no zoos, no seaquariums,

  • everything will be observed in natural conditions.

  • There will be boating, scuba-diving, recreation,

  • and universities built in the sea.

  • Socio-cyberneering encompasses the entire social spectrum.

  • - These drawings all made by you? - Yes.

  • This might represent an individual house.

  • Most of the homes will be individually contoured.

  • If you're an artist, you'll live in the kind of house

  • that is most suitable to your areas of interest.

  • If you're a technician, a musician, the house will be designed

  • for your needs. Most of the houses will be self-generative.

  • That is, the heat of the sun falls upon your roof

  • and lowers the temperature on the inside of the house.

  • The sunlight is scattered on the inner walls,

  • in which you have a phosphor coating.

  • And the room glows, all evening, with a soft glow

  • without any electricity, without any power waste.

  • All of the pavement in the area is black.

  • Under the pavement are heating coils,

  • that is, built-in PVC tubing, or wiring, or conveyor tubing for water.

  • As the Sun beats down on the pavement, we get all the hot water we need

  • without burning any fuel, conserving energy

  • all over the world, at a much lower cost.

  • - Who's... who's going to pay for all this?

  • - Where is the money coming from?

  • If you took all of the gold and all of the wealth of this country,

  • all of the certificates of debt, and all of the land ownership,

  • all of the diamonds and rings, and dumped it off the coast of Japan,

  • as long as you didn't touch the American way of thinking,

  • our technology and our resources,

  • we would not be impoverished at all.

  • America's wealth is not its gold, is not its banking institutions.

  • These are false institutions. That the entire money-structured

  • and materialistic-oriented society is a false society.

  • 10 or 15 years from now, our society

  • will go down in history as the lowest development in Man.

  • We have the brains, the know-how, the technology,

  • and the feasibility to build an entirely new civilization.

  • - You believe that we teach competition? That it's not bred into some-

  • - Competition is dangerous, socially offensive,

  • considered right and normal, because

  • you are brought up to that value system.

  • What kind of competition did Jesus have?

  • What kind of competition is there in your body?

  • Suppose your brain said, "I'm the most important organ!"

  • And the liver said, "I am. And I want a Free Enterprise system!"

  • You'd rot away in a month if every organ

  • of your body went out for itself.

  • - What's this? - Some individuals will live in homes

  • of a different design. There will be a wide range

  • of what you call individuality. The city is built to bring out

  • what you call individuality, creativity, thinking, development.

  • To question all things and challenge all ideas.

  • The city is not utopian. It is an open city, to develop all ideas,

  • to change our concepts when they need to be changed.

  • - Here we have a 3-phase picture.

  • - Architecture will run the gamut. That all the buildings

  • will be earthquake-proof, fire-proof, termite-proof

  • and shock resistant, in that they will rest on this particularly

  • designed sand bay so that no direct shock can be transferred

  • to the architecture. There are no fire departments,

  • because nothing in the architecture can burn.

  • There are no TV sets, radios, tape recorders, or record players.

  • All of that is done by the central computer system

  • in which all of the world's music is housed in a central computer.

  • You don't want records, tape recorders, all this junk

  • that requires continuous maintenance.

  • All you want is the music you like. You dial it, and you get the music.

  • You don't need to pick up records or store them.

  • You live in an insane culture, where we duplicate things.

  • It's like having a television station in every home

  • or every apartment building. All you want is the music

  • or the program. You dial that.

  • There's where the computers come in. They don't control you,

  • they provide you with the music, and the program.

  • - But you would need a set in the house to get the programs. - No.

  • All you need is an image screen.

  • - An image screen? - An image screen. A flat screen built-in

  • on the wall. You don't have a set sticking out.

  • You don't have tape recorders. All you have is the music you like.

  • - Did you read Ira Levin's "This Perfect Day"? - No, I did not.

  • - Well, he has a society like this, in which the computers also control

  • the human beings. - Well, this I'm against, very much against.

  • - He made it so, if you felt a little ill, you pressed the button...

  • - I don't like that. That's too much like "1984"

  • and "Brave New World". This is humanistic.

  • All our cities will be separated by a half mile of landscaped areas

  • and returned to the natural ecological balance.

  • The lakes, the hills, the valleys, the animal life between cities

  • will go back to nature. - How will we travel?

  • - Cities are connected from core to core by either

  • cyclic elevators or linear transportation systems.

  • There are no freeways and no automobiles,

  • therefore no automobile accidents.

  • No automobile accidents, because they don't exist.

  • We have continuous transportation. You don't need to wait for a bus.

  • We have continuous, moving conveyors.

  • - When I get back to money, and you said that it's unimportant.

  • To start this, who will build it? Who's going to build the first-

  • - It's a membership organization ... which is like,

  • the members pay about $10 a year and they get the booklet,

  • and the information, and they go to meetings.

  • But the funds actually come from donations from organizations

  • and various agencies of the federal government and private foundations

  • to build the first city, to solve the transportation systems,

  • to work out a totally different environment.

  • And after the first city is built, we expect a rapid growth

  • in the membership. It is difficult for people

  • to immediately understand socio-cyberneering

  • because it is not like anything else that you're familiar with.

  • - Obviously it requires a change of thinking.

  • Well, you're not dull, Jacque. Okay.

  • - For example: agriculture. You read of pests,

  • you read of insecticides, you read of DDT.

  • You read of constant spraying contaminating the Earth.

  • People get angry. They join environmentalist groups.

  • They try to save our environment, but they come up with

  • no specific ideas. Socio-cyberneering has a blueprint

  • for all of the identified problems. For example,

  • all our agriculture will be totally enclosed, either in plastic

  • or glass buildings, that can transmit ultraviolet light.

  • Therefore, you have no insect invasion of plants.

  • We also have special ultrasonic generators

  • that keep all insects away from plants.

  • If certain insects- particularly selected insects

  • that are detrimental to plants- are hit with ultrasonic,

  • cavitation is produced and their bodies rupture,

  • fall to the soil, and enrich the soil.

  • And are not washed into our rivers, and do not contaminate.

  • Therefore, an agriculture that's enclosed-

  • you're not subject to frost,

  • you're not subject to freeze or weather.

  • In other words, these nuclear plants out here,

  • that dump their hot water into the bay,

  • we use that hot water in the winter to enhance the plant life,

  • to grow bananas in Georgia, in North Carolina,

  • by using the hot water from nuclear plants.

  • What do we do with the radioactive waste?

  • We encase it in piping and treat sewage water with the radiation.

  • Not radioactive powder, but the radiation material is sealed.

  • And through a multiplicity of shields, we only use the radiation

  • to clean the waters emitted by hospitals

  • and all other sources of contamination.

  • - You keep showing this figure of this thing flying around in the sky

  • so you better tell me what that is. - Oh.

  • This is one of the methods of conserving our land area.

  • You read of erosion. Our beaches are being eroded.

  • Land is being eroded. By designing and building underwater dams

  • -which is entirely feasible within our time-

  • we can modify the ocean current, we can modify the Japanese stream.

  • We can build dams under the ocean, and utilize the Japanese current,

  • oxygenate the water, and do away with the red tide.

  • The red tide, by the way, can be dealt with by oxygenation,

  • by recirculating the water,

  • by building dams under the water in the Gulf Stream,

  • to set up greater turbulence in the water, and this is feasible.

  • If we don't do it, we will cease to be as a nation.

  • We have the energy, the know-how, the raw materials.

  • Socio-cyberneering is an organization

  • that is probably the boldest organization ever conceived of.

  • We're undertaking the most ambitious project

  • in the history of mankind. - What's this?

  • - This represents a surveillance equipment aircraft

  • to survey the areas, the movement of the currents,

  • and to monitor Earth systems.

  • - Alright, Jacque. - This represents a variation of a circular scheme.

  • Most of the cities are based on natural configurations:

  • the atomic structure, basic designs in nature.

  • The center of the city might be related to

  • studies of the human organism.

  • This center here may be studies of diseases of the eye;

  • other systems: diseases of the nervous system.

  • An all-out research project on enhancing the lives of Man.

  • There are no military programs or projects in socio-cyberneering.

  • - And no need for an army? - No need for an army.

  • - Now, what if one people decides to attack another people?

  • - We then invite. After the first city is built

  • we tend to go socio-cyberneering international,

  • to invite the participation of all nations of the world

  • into a system of monitoring the Earth,

  • and using the Earth to enhance the lives of Man.

  • - What if one group of people get together and attack

  • another group of people? - We believe that is done due to scarcity,

  • or that a society suffers from economic deprivation,

  • lack of arable land area or overpopulation.

  • - In other words, you believe it would not occur. - It would not occur.

  • - What is this wild-looking thing? - This is clean sources of power.

  • By utilizing the natural heat of the Earth-

  • that is, volcanic energy, or the magma, or the molten lava

  • under the Earth, of which there are approximately 500 potentials-

  • if we tap a mountain in Hawaii, called Mount Aloha,

  • we can get enough power to electrify the world.

  • We can get enough power from that volcano alone.

  • We have 500 potential volcanoes we can harness.

  • We can use that natural heat from the volcano.

  • No smog. No smoke. No dirt. No gases. No fuels. No oil spills.

  • And no more burning of fuels in any city to generate power.

  • If Japan used Fujiyama, they don't need to burn oil.

  • They don't need oil. All of that heat is sitting there!

  • 20 million years of power, right under the Earth's surface.

  • In fact, you don't even need to use fusion power or nuclear power.

  • And it's easy to tap. And it's clean, and available.

  • As soon as we make up our minds

  • to put scientists rather than on weapons, nerve gas,

  • on harnessing the Earth power that is already here.

  • - How are you going to get the president of Florida Power and Light or

  • Shell Oil to give up such a...

  • - Socio-cyberneering does not appeal to governments,

  • to private enterprise. We're going to do this thing-

  • just as the automobile phased out the stagecoach,

  • just as television stepped in and phased out

  • the old vaudeville and the old motion pictures.

  • That history and technology is respecters of no society,

  • no individual opinions, but it moves on.

  • And we've got to be prepared to face the future.

  • Socio-cyberneering will tackle some of the most ambitious projects

  • in the history of Man. This represents the building

  • of underwater dams within the Gulf Stream.

  • This dam will collect, direct, and route the waters of the sea

  • into a spillway that is centrifugally shaped so that fish

  • and marine life are separated from the turbine blades.

  • The Gulf Stream will generate power to oxygenate the waters,

  • to eliminate the red tide, to pick up the amount of fish in the ocean,

  • to monitor marine life and build an ecological relationship

  • between the total oceanographic world and the continents.

  • Areas where we've gone in for strip-mining and loused up the land

  • by digging out the areas, shamefully pitting the surface

  • of the United States, we feel we can build underground art cities,

  • music centers, landscaped areas with gardens

  • and lakes, and reclaim those areas.

  • - Now this looks like... a train station.

  • - After the automobile is phased out, which we hope to do very rapidly,

  • we hope to build a new transportation system

  • and also phase out all forms of aircraft, except surveillance.

  • Aircraft, helicopters. We think aircraft are no longer necessary.

  • In fact, the skies are so jammed, and landing is so difficult,

  • and the speeds and the shockwave are no longer worth working on.

  • I know that people in the aircraft business do not understand this,

  • nor do they feel this because they feel that all institutions

  • tend to perpetuate themselves.

  • We hope to phase out the airplane by designing

  • transportation units that can move up to 2,000 miles an hour,

  • floating on a magnetic repulsive field or an air cushion.

  • And in those huge trains of tomorrow

  • there will be TV, radio, amusement, art centers, classrooms,

  • not a group of seats lined up as your trains are today-

  • highly regimented society, whether you know it or not.

  • This society will be different in its transportation means.

  • If forty or fifty people have to leave the train,

  • we slow up to 100 miles an hour, lift off the passenger section,

  • or slide it off and slide on a section with the passengers getting on.

  • You don't have to stop the whole plane or the train.

  • Today, when three people are getting off,

  • you land the airplane and three or four people get off.

  • In the future, we will just shove off those passengers getting off

  • and that freight, leaving.

  • - How will this go from, say, Miami to London?

  • - We then have an underwater project

  • in which tunnels are suspended 125 feet

  • beneath the surface of the sea, therefore you eliminate

  • most of the ocean-going transportation systems.

  • You're not subject to the weather or anything else.

  • This is part of the linear acceleration train

  • that can take you anywhere in the world in just a few hours

  • safely, without snow, rain, being lost at sea.

  • - Are all these things you're saying, Jacque, could they be built

  • with what we know today? Or are some of these things,

  • are you guessing, based on what we know today? - No

  • All of these things can be built with what we know today.

  • It would take 10 years to change the surface of the Earth,

  • to rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.

  • The choice lies with you. The stupidity of a nuclear arms race,

  • the development of weapons, trying to solve your problems politically

  • by electing this political party or that political party,

  • that all politics is immersed in corruption. Let me say it again:

  • communism, socialism, fascism, the democrats, the liberals-

  • we want to absorb human beings. Women's Lib-...

  • ALL organizations that believe in a better life for Man!

  • There are no Negro problems, or Polish problems,

  • or Jewish problems, or Greek problems,

  • or women's problems. They're Human problems!

  • To come into socio-cyberneering, and take your part, and function.

  • We are not concerned with the divisions of segments of society.

  • - No ... control of the population?

  • - Population control is dependent upon education.

  • We feel an educated population needs no control.

  • - You wouldn't stop sex. - No, sir.

  • - Good move, Jacque. What's this?

  • - Some individuals may want to live in a "way out" house.

  • How far way out- how far out you want to live-

  • will be determined by your value system, and your lifestyle.

  • It is not a restricted society. It is not a "1984".

  • It is not a "Brave New World". But it is something brand new.

  • We would like you to investigate socio-cyberneering.

  • - Now, I'm going to give the address out for people who would like

  • to know more about... oooh, the next one looks really weird.

  • - Some people may want to live in a different kind of home.

  • I myself am interested in world affairs, ecological changes,

  • therefore the walls would have panoramic screens,

  • giving me the kind of information that I am interested in.

  • Your home may be different, designed to fit your needs.

  • The homes will be molded. - Now, nobody will pay the builder

  • of the home? He won't receive money? - No.

  • - Why will he build the home? - "He" doesn't build the home.

  • The homes are built through systems engineering

  • in which we can form a home every half hour

  • by blowing the floor up out of the ground so that we have

  • -up out of a plastic unit which the floor is comprised of-

  • we blow and shape the furniture, and then spray the furniture.

  • In other words, if you're going to be here

  • -if the United States is going to be here- for the next 20 years,

  • you can't have a plumber install the toilet bowl, and the sink,

  • and the shower in the same old hand-tool fashion

  • that was done forty years ago. We've got to make a quantum jump.

  • Mold maybe fifteen different types of bathrooms.

  • You pick out that which you like, the bathroom is self-cleaning,

  • self-drying and we install it in your architecture,

  • based upon your selection.

  • - What, uh... uh-...

  • It will be so hard to change, you know.

  • - How do we change humans? - A lot of these things sound fascinating but

  • in order to accomplish any of this, you require, to me,

  • a change of the human. - The human value system. - How?

  • - We feel that if enough human beings are exposed

  • to socio-cyberneering, through information,

  • and they question things about human behavior, the new schools-

  • I'd be happy to describe all things. We don't have enough time now

  • to go into that. But it doesn't take very long

  • for Americans to change. Americans have been conditioned

  • in their kind of society to get a different kind of car next year,

  • to buy a new television set or a tape-recorder.

  • We are radical as hell. But our political and social institutions

  • have not changed. And this is where we are stagnating:

  • because we always equate any new idea

  • with communism or regimentation.

  • Because we've been brought up to fear that which is new.

  • And I think that Christ was a radical.

  • He brought new ideas. But it took time,

  • thousands of years, for people to really appreciate ideas.

  • - They still haven't bought them. - Exactly.

  • Our ideas- ... - What's this giant foot?

  • - What looks like a giant foot is really a wind tunnel

  • in a vertical position. We feel, by building six of these

  • in the Los Angeles area and the New York area,

  • and accelerating air down through this tunnel

  • by means of turbines, and electrostatic filters

  • and a low temperature base, we can clean the air of the

  • solid particulate matter, gases, and all suspended particles

  • within a period of one year, clean the air in the Los Angeles

  • and New York area, and then remove these structures

  • and build garden cities again.

  • Let's not wait for nature to do it.

  • We loused it up. We're going to have to clean it up,

  • like the war program.

  • - You know, people- before I show this last one- people,

  • just so you know, you know that, ah-...

  • a lot of this is wondrous to you, and it is to me, of course, but

  • Dr. Fresco is a respected social engineer, industrial designer,

  • designer and inventor, Ph. D in Human Factors Engineering,

  • and has worked on many things from anti-icing systems to

  • prefabricated aluminum houses, designed systems for noiseless

  • and pollution-free aircraft, wrote the book "Looking Forward".

  • He has lectured at the Department of Sociology

  • in Princeton on sociology of the future,

  • guest at the College Editors Environmental Conference in Washington,

  • lectured at Queens College, New York,

  • University of South Florida, University of California,

  • designed various items, ranging from drafting instruments to X-ray units.

  • And, so you know, don't just dismiss this.

  • If he says it's possible, it's possible. What's this?

  • - Well, in times to come, most of you are probably familiar with

  • the giant units that are used to move the rockets

  • onto their launching platform- tremendous tractor systems.

  • In the distant future, perhaps the next 15 or 20 years,

  • huge tractors may be built, with a nuclear reactor built-in

  • that can fuse the Earth into canals, and transportation ways.

  • We can shape the Earth by nuclear energy

  • without mixing concrete, without having trucks and human beings

  • leveling the concrete. We can do this today,

  • at 20 miles per hour, if we wanted to.

  • Shape the Earth into highways, waterways, flood control systems,

  • in a totally different reorganized technology.

  • - Alright, now: technicians working now

  • in this present setup in the private industry concept,

  • why haven't we seen more things like this,

  • if they are feasible? If for, just for example:

  • the Japanese, or everybody's working on a high speed train.

  • And you can't tell me that the Japanese wouldn't like to have

  • -the Seaboard Railroad wouldn't like to have-

  • a train that could get you to New York in 20 minutes.

  • Even for a profit. Why don't they?

  • - As far as I know, at present, there is really no integrated

  • transportation system. Integrating a transportation system,

  • you'd have to design, it's just like designing a heart

  • of a human being- if God did it this way-

  • and then he decided to put some lungs nearby,

  • and then he built another structure to hold our arms.

  • All of these are after-thoughts.

  • What we have to do is design a city as a living system.

  • As an organism. As a university.

  • That all of the cities of the future will be university cities

  • that grow, that continue to exchange ideas.

  • The city will have a built-in transportation system,

  • so there are no accidents, and no un-thoughtout areas of technology.

  • Medicine, botany, agriculture, the total system. One planning system.

  • Our cities have been designed a long time ago.

  • The area like Miami- downtown Miami,

  • may put in a couple of pots and a couple of trees,

  • and this kind of simulating an intelligent approach

  • to an environment which costs thousands of dollars.

  • And these little intrusions on Flagler Street

  • only cause the buses and the fire engines and the emergency vehicles

  • to become further tied up. They are no solutions.

  • They are clumsy, academic approaches by people

  • immersed in this kind of society, coming up with

  • their cop-out solutions that have no relationship to the problems.

  • You cannot be a conventional architect, a conventional engineer,

  • work for the telephone company, or any other of the old establishment

  • and come up with an idea that is a radical innovation.

  • The space program takes new thinking; to save our country,

  • to save our land, to save our environment,

  • to save our youth. Our stupidity, our conflict-

  • we've got to reorganize our way of thinking

  • and reconsider our social aims,

  • toward the brotherhood of man. We do that or we perish.

  • - What do you think Frank Lloyd Wright would have thought of this?

  • - I think that Frank Lloyd Wright was establishment.

  • I think that his architecture was radical.

  • But I think it was radical in a limited way.

  • And we've got to get away from this limited

  • "I did this" and "I did that ," and the self-centeredness

  • that dominates our society today.

  • It must be a privilege to serve members of society.

  • Not that we want rewards or medals or honor

  • for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it.

  • And if you cannot work for that, then you missed the boat.

  • You don't understand the teachings of the wisest men that ever lived.

  • - In your society there are no mayors of cities

  • - There are no mayors, there are no politicians,

  • and you don't have to fill out any forms

  • to go to the arts center or music center

  • and you go to a university whether you can afford it or not.

  • If you want a suit of clothes how do you get it?

  • Well, most suits of clothing are designed by

  • anatomists and physiologists to be comfortable.

  • Most of your shoes will breathe as you walk.

  • They'll be very different from the shoes

  • that dominate your society today.

  • Most of your clothing will be organically designed,

  • in that if you move your arms it'll aerate and breathe.

  • And most of your clothing will be washed by ultrasonics.

  • No detergents. No washing machines. No centrifugal separators.

  • We can knock all of the fluid off clothing today, by vibration.

  • We can knock fluids off clothing. In other words

  • if you could move a piece of fabric from position A

  • to position B rapidly enough, the fluid will remain behind.

  • Ultrasonically vibrating the fabric can remove the fluids.

  • And you need not contaminate your waters.

  • You don't have to use any of the systems today. Let me briefly say this:

  • You have a bumper in front of your car and behind your car.

  • But in your society, your car is hit on the side also.

  • You have safety belts and harnesses in your car.

  • But that assumes that you're going to be hit by the rear or in front.

  • If you're hit on a side you go right through the side of the windshield.

  • What good are these approaches?!

  • They are designed by men that are cerebral insufficients!

  • You've got to design a society with a bumper all around the car,

  • phase out human drivers, put electronic guidance systems in cars,

  • or eliminate the automobile, design a holistic transportation system.

  • We must put our mind to this as we do to put a man on the moon.

  • We must put our mind to the social problem.

  • We wish to get away from politics. We wish to get away from

  • the old world method of solving problems.

  • If you can barely understand what it is I'm trying to say

  • in this short period of time, please investigate

  • socio-cyberneering. - Are you saying that

  • General Motors could build a safe car today?

  • Totally safe car, with the knowledge at hand?

  • - Yes, if they're given that assignment.

  • They're not given that assignment.

  • - No, because they're working on their own initiative to make more money.

  • - They're only interested in...

  • Look, if General Motors had to service their own cars

  • I can tell you for certain

  • that they would have two levers that you turn down and

  • pull out the engine, shove it in a service unit.

  • And you know, to change a $3 spring in a car or a $2 part,

  • you gotta do a $45 job on a small car just to pull the engine out.

  • But if they had to service the car

  • I can assure you that whole engine would slide out.

  • You know they put a race-car wheel on with one turn?

  • That's the way your wheels would go on. You'd have bumpers all around.

  • You'd have no chromium, no ornament.

  • The chromium would be in the engine where you have chrome-steel;

  • tougher engine. In other words,

  • the automobile companies have total- actually they have contempt.

  • Let me say this again: All manufacturers have contempt for you.

  • To sell you the toothpaste...

  • the products that they sell you are deliberately,

  • deliberately designed to wear out, break down,

  • so you have to continually service those things.

  • You notice that your telephone is pretty reliable?

  • Well, we here in America can think.

  • We can design things that don't wear out

  • and don't break down and don't require maintenance, at all!

  • - Yeah the instrument, the phone, that stays forever. -You bet.

  • If the automobile companies had to maintain their cars,

  • it would be a forever- - The phone company has to maintain the phone.

  • - You bet! - That's why it's good. - That's why your units hold up.

  • - I never thought of that. - Right on, most people haven't.

  • - You know operators can be bad, they can be bad, but the phone itself-

  • - It's the same for your TV sets by the way.

  • - You mean if RCA, if everybody had to maintain their own...

  • - You bet. They'd all be ... automatic systems

  • which you pull out, shove in a replacement unit.

  • If your engine breaks down, they pull out the engine,

  • shove in a courtesy engine, and you take off.

  • Why hold up the whole car when you need a battery job?

  • If you did that in the Army Air Force, you couldn't operate at all.

  • Your society is really comprised of very stupid men.

  • Let me say it again: all politicians, all lawyers,

  • all businessmen, will be phased out.

  • I'm not going to do it, it's not going to be a revolution,

  • you don't need it. Our society cannot be maintained

  • by this type of incompetency.

  • It was great, the free enterprise system, about 35 years ago.

  • That was the last of its usefulness.

  • Now we've gotta change our way of thinking or perish.

  • Our system is dying.

  • If Nixon remains in, it will die in his lap.

  • If a liberal group gets in, the society will fall.

  • Our cities are going broke, we don't have the money

  • nor the type of mentality required

  • to save our society in politics or government.

  • I am not your enemy, I am not trying to destroy things.

  • I do not believe in revolution.

  • I believe that ideas must be presented to American people.

  • They have to make the decision.

  • - Now, Dr. Fresco is in the local phonebook, am I correct? - Yes.

  • - Is that the number people would call to contact? - Yes.

  • - That's F-R-E-S-C-O. Dr. Jacque Fresco.

  • And we're going to do some more with you,

  • because you're... You know what I'd like to do one day?

  • - There's a hell of a lot on socio-cyberneering.

  • - A Special. - I want to do one on human behavior.

  • - Now, human behavior, how about a human behaviorist?

  • And how about some engineers? You know,

  • what if I get a guy form General Motors? - Great. Love it.

  • Love it. - An engineer of a car. - Love it.

  • Get me the biggest establishment people you can get hold of.

  • I'd love 'em. Bankers, ecologists, economists...

  • I can't use the kind of language I'd like to use on TV,

  • but I'd like to talk to them.

  • I'd like to blow it up for you to understand it.

  • Like the money system now, the whole idea of devaluation.

  • Nobody knows what it's all about. They all think it's very complicated.

  • Actually it's very simple. I'll tell you what it is

  • if I have the time in a nutshell, what's going on.

  • If an island, like Haiti

  • had about several hundred million dollars

  • in assets. But they went on, and they

  • printed more money than they had things to back it up, or gold.

  • Then that money has no value. If a little island, say like

  • St. Croix printed lots of money and just came to the United States

  • trying to buy things- they ran their printing presses night and day-

  • the money is not backed, that's why it doesn't have anything.

  • Your whole banking system is utterly corrupt.

  • Your lending institutions have loused up the system.

  • But there's nobody out there telling you what's wrong with it.

  • So it looks okay to you.

  • I'm not afraid of anybody, I don't work for anyone.

  • No one can discharge me. I have no boss.

  • The only thing that can happen to me is I can be put in prison.

  • Well there're many books to write. In other words

  • there are many things to be done. I am not afraid.

  • I am afraid to live in the society we live in today.

  • The direction we're moving in gives us

  • 25 years for total environmental destruction.

  • We have 7 years to mass starvation.

  • We don't have much time. - The value of a nation

  • -dollar value, America's value-

  • the value of the dollar is not based on gold reserves,

  • the value of the dollar is based on faith in this country, right?

  • And it's output isn't it? That's the truth.

  • - You can't build a nation on faith. It has to be backed up by resources.

  • - But if the French respect the dollar, it's backed

  • by respect for American resources.

  • - Respect, it only means that it serves France in some useful way.

  • A nation's interest in any other nation is always self-interest.

  • When we send representatives to any other country

  • our self-interest is first.

  • Whatever happens to that nation is secondary.

  • We have nothing but utter materialism

  • which dominates our society today.

  • - You're talking about all countries? - Yes. All countries.

  • - The science is socio-cyberneering.

  • The man behind it is Dr. Jacque Fresco.

  • - I'm Larry King.

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