Name: Reflections on the Life & Work of Jacque Fresco
Uploaded: 2017-08-10T13:39:57.000Z
Duration: 5 min 18 s
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Jacque Fresco has been designing cities of the future.

This is what it looks like: a future where

technology is harnessed for all and money

It's called The Venus Project, and he says

50 million people around the world are now

Magazine writers from Europe have written stories about him.

I've now come to the other side of the world to Florida

to meet a man who has a very clear vision

of what he thinks the future of cities should look like.

Fresco's vision goes beyond architecture.

He sees his cities as tools for fostering humanistic values.

[Jacque Fresco] I feel that environment shapes our values:

the people we know, the people we identify with.

The future isn't Star Wars according to Jacque.

Jacque thinks he has the answer in the city of the future.

We’ll show a world in which values are different.

The aspirations of people: they have compassion,

feeling for one another, concern over the environment.

[Abby Martin] He’s a self-educated industrial designer, engineer and futurist

who truly believes the ills of society can be cured ONLY

if we throw away the rules that govern it and ourselves.

if you declare the Earth and all its resources

as the common heritage of all of the world's people,

police, prisons, none of that's necessary

and you tell me, you can point right at it.

is control the physical entities that comprise the environment.

without the knowledge to overcome scarcity.

[Brian Rose] He was talking about this stuff before it became trendy,

To save our land, to save our environment,

we've got to reorganize our way of thinking

If you had an intelligent type of upbringing in one’s children,

they would say "there must be many other ways of solving problems

We had him on the show, it was quite an honor.

It was for a long time the most watched show.

it's really a different way of looking at humanity.

Now here they take a group of scientists and engineers

You give them a flying machine, they use it to bomb cities!

rather than to the Earth and everyone on it,

[Natasha Tsakos] He is the founder of The Venus Project,

based on human and environmental concerns.

We have to learn how to manage REAL economics,

not for profit, [but] for human betterment.

Then you'll see the beginning of a civilized world.

It must be a privilege to serve members of society.

Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do,

[but] because it is just an honor to do it.

You don't always communicate with people.

[Roxanne Meadows] Jacque’s work gave meaning to so many people's lives,

and I feel very grateful to be one of them.

There is nothing else I see that's more viable to work on

that would bring such positive change to the way we live.

as I continue introducing this direction to others

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Reflections on the Life & Work of Jacque Fresco

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