★ Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco made a great contribution to the development of FW. He really deserves the title of Futurist in the system of •FW Statistics•. Jacque Fresco infused people to think globally, think about the planet as a whole, promoted the idea of FW, made a lot of development. Today, his work is known as The Venus Project (Sociocyberneering, Resources Based Economy). He devoted all his time to the ideas of the Future, I think his work will be the basis for the creation of FW. He thought about developing the whole world, the bright side of Futurist is caring for the world around us, the realization that we are made of the environment, nature has materialized us, otherwise we would not have been, nature has given us oxygen, food, resources, everything that supports our lives.
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“Throughout the time, the main motivation that prompted me to do what I do was to contemplate endless wars, crises, useless human suffering, poverty, corruption, and complete indifference of power to people’s problems. The serious incentives for me have always been and remain the incompetence of governments and the almost complete absence of proposals from the scientific community. Unfortunately, most people simply do not see the big picture; narrow specialization in individual sciences and disciplines impedes a universal understanding of the surrounding reality. Scientists and politicians look at the problems that arise from within the system in which they are located, while this system is the main cause of these problems in the first place. I am very disappointed by those who are working so hard on the terraforming problems of other planets, when there is still war, poverty and neglect of environmental concerns on our homeland."
- Jacque Fresco
Image: The Venus Project
He thought freely, studied the world around him. Jacque immediately realized that the world needed improvements due to poverty and environmental problems, wars, and crimes.
He studied socio-engineering, described the development of a person in any environment, how conditions affect a person, his subsequent development, which makes a person to be good or bad. That the plant itself does not grow, it is forced by a lack of sunlight, water, conditions change it, life adapts, acquiring tools for survival. The same thing with a person, conditions affect the subsequent growth of a person. It is the conditions that speak of the ultimate growth of man.
If we have a lack of resources, then a struggle begins for it, if there are a lot of resources, then the enmity stops. The environment, how rich or poor it is, is the source of a person’s development, his behavior, traditions, his language, the conditions in which he grew up, and so on. This allows us to understand why criminals, thieves, killers appear. A striking example is the distorted harsh environment where a boy can be born, which will subsequently make him a criminal. Crime is the same as breathing oxygen, it is a logical sequence of behavior.
Feature Jacques Fresco was empathy, love for the environment, respect for nature, the understanding that the world is a holistic system. Caring for the environment is survival, we protect nature and ourselves.
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Awareness is an important part of the Futurist, an awareness of what others feel, empathy, putting oneself in place of others. In simple words - a smart approach to the environment, takes care of nature, plants, lead a clean lifestyle, think globally.
We can create a beautiful world, live in an abundance of resources that we would need, security, cleanliness, properly allocate resources without creating garbage.
The reason why the wonderful world would propel us to the front, you can compare from history, if we were "ʜᴏᴍᴏsᴀᴘɪᴇɴ", you would not be sitting at a computer, using smartphones, and all the charms of technology and art. Would remain in the Stone Age we would have to live half as long, in constant danger and physical labor. The whole difference is in comparison, at the moment according to FW Statistics we live in antiquity, due problems of current world, and because there are great prospects that we should open up as a window to new worlds, this is space, science, creativity, the limitless beauty of this life, love, fantasy, imagination, the search for higher questions. We have not even begun to think big, the world is just taking this step. Creating a beautiful world makes our condition better, we become full of mood, when you feel this beauty of life at the moment, you begin to live at this moment.
Image: The Venus Project
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Jacque Fresco
FW Statistics:
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Books 7
Movies 7
Interviews 33+
Lecture videos 100+
Lectures 100+
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YouTube:
Viewers 48M+
Followers 600K+
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Inventions 20+
Earth cleaning 10 Hectares
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| Author's books:
▪"Looking Forward" co-authored with Kenneth Keyes Jr., (1969) A.S. Barnes & Company
▪"Introduction to Sociocyberneering", (1977) Sociocyberneering, Inc. (out of print)
▪"Structural Systems and Systems of Structure", (1979) Sociocyberneering, Inc. (out of print)
▪"The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture", (1995) Global Cybervisions - World Future Society best-seller
▪"And The World Will Be One", (1997) (unpublished)
▪"The Best That Money Can’t Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War", (2002) Global Cybervisions
▪Designing the Future, (2007) The Venus Project, Inc.
| Videos Produced, Written, or Filmed
▪The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture (1994) – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪Welcome To The Future (2001) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪Cities In The Sea (2002) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪Self-erecting Structures (2002) [Trailer | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪Designing the Future (2006) – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪Paradise or Oblivion (2012) [Trailer | Full | Deluxe] – produced, directed, and edited with Roxanne Meadows.
▪“The Choice Is Ours” (2016) with Roxanne Meadows
| Inventions and developments:
Many of these projects have been patented and have had wide commercial acceptance.
▪Systems for noiseless and pollution free aircraft, 1939-1944
▪Boundary layer control and electrodynamic methods for aircraft control that dispenses with ailerons, elevators, rudders, and flaps, 1939-1944
▪Experimental equipment for behavioral scientist, Keller Breland, circa 1945
▪Pre-fabricated industrial buildings for Houser Industrial Co., circa 1945
▪12 variations of an aluminum “Trend Home”, a prefabricated house designed and developed for Mike Shore, Earl Muntz, Dan Rayes, and Harry Mayslish, of Trend Homes, Inc., 1945-1948
▪Numerous components and systems for architectural construction, 1946-1961
▪A new structural bracing system for aircraft wings, commissioned by the U.S. Air Force, 1947
▪Principle technique for three-dimensional x-ray units and for viewing three-dimensional film and television projection without the use of glasses, for Paramount producers Jack Moss and Irving Yergin, offered to Technicolor, 1949
▪Electrostatic system controls for aircraft and the elimination of sonic boom for Raymond De-Icer, 1951-1952
▪Electrostatic anti-icing system for Raymond De-Icer Co., 1951-1952
▪Twin Pontoon Outboard Surf Rider – 10′ long, weight 160 lbs., without motor developed for Joe Abaloe
▪Prefabricated aluminum “Sandwich” houses for Major Realty Corporation in collaboration with Aluminum Company of America, 1961
▪A three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for Charles Stuart Motor Co. of Miami, consisting of only 32 parts, 1961
▪Experimental electronic devices for The Parkinson’s Institute of Miami, 1965-1966
▪Structural Y-Frame Shelters developed for Allan Sanford of The Sanford Company, 1968
▪Medical Devices and prosthetics for Dr. Irving Fixel, 1974
▪A second three-wheel low cost motor vehicle developed for A.D. Bessemer, 1974
▪Dental equipment and office accessories for Dr. George Graham
▪Various products, such as, the Volk Pipe, pre-fabricated extruded display cabinets, record reel dispenser for magnetic tapes, 180° hinge, vectograph displayer, enclosed sanitary sleeping chamber, ultraviolet germicidal lamp, serving tray, snap together lamp, high impact safety helmet, electronic surgical instruments for the medical field, 1941-1968
▪Numerous extruded aluminum devices, including, Utilitarian Draftsman Rack, Pencil Rack, Draftsman Scale – 12″ to 36”, Smokers Pipe Rack, Cigarette Holder, Dual Straightedge, Comb, 1967-68Designed and built a wide variety of reinforced concrete structures, 1979-2007
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| Professional positions:
▪Aircraft Designer for the Northrop Division of Douglas Aircraft, Los Angeles, California, 1939
▪Design consultant to Gilbert McGill and Rotor Craft Helicopter Company, Los Angeles, California, 1939
▪Design consultant to Fred Landgraf for Landgraf Helicopter Co., Los Angeles, California
▪Co-creator of Revel Plastics Company with Lou Glaser, 1941
▪Designer in the Army Air Force Design and Development Unit, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, 1941-1944
▪Design Developer of experimental equipment for behavioral scientist, Keller Breland
▪Director of Scientific Research Laboratories, Los Angeles, California, 1945-1955
▪Architectural Designer of pre-fabricated industrial buildings for Houser Industrial Co., Los Angeles, California
▪Architectural Designer for Trend Homes, Inc., Los Angeles, California, 1945-1948
▪Design Developer of three-dimensional projection systems for Paramount producer Jack Moss, 1949
▪Research Engineer for Raymond De-Icer Corp., Los Angeles, California, 1951-1952
▪Technical Consultant to the Motion Picture Industry, including technical advisor and effects creator for the film Project Moonbase (1953) written by Robert A. Heinlein; for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films for Joe Stoneman Productions; and for Camera Eye Pictures, Inc., for the film, The Naked Eye (1956), which won the Robert J. Flaherty Award for creative film documentary and was nominated for an Academy Award.
▪Colleague and work associate of Donald Powell Wilson of Los Angeles, the noted psychologist who wrote My Six Convicts.
▪Industrial Design Instructor at the Art Center School in Hollywood, California
▪Design Consultant for Major Realty Co. and Aluminum Co. of America (Alcoa), 1961
▪Design Developer of electronic devices for the Parkinson’s Institute of Miami, 1965-1966
▪Creator of Jacque Fresco Enterprises, Inc. for the development of prefabricated aluminum devices, 1967-1968
▪Founder and Director of Sociocyberneering, Inc., Miami, Florida, the forerunner to the Venus Project, 1971-1994
▪Founder of the Venus Project, Venus, Florida, 1994-present
| Radio shows and television programs:
There are also new interviews in radio and TV
▪The Russel Scott Show (2013)
▪The Higherside Chats (2013)
▪TNS Radio (UK) (2013)
▪The Not So Common Show (2012)
▪Radio Aktual (Slovenia)
▪Evolving Ideas with Elaine Smitha, Progressive Radio Network (2011)
▪Radiomatica, 102.7 FM (Vancouver, Canada) (2010)
▪95bFM (New Zealand) (2010)
▪Good Vibrations, KRXA (Sand City, CA, USA) (2009)
▪New Social Paradigm, One Radio Network (2009)
▪Living On Purpose with Lynn Thompson, CHLY (Nanaimo, BC Canada) (2008)
▪WLW-AM Midday with Mike McConnell
▪WLW-AM (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
▪WCUB-AM (Manitowoc, WI, USA)
▪KVON-AM (San Francisco, CA, USA)
▪KFMK-FM 105.9 (Austin, TX, USA)
▪JudiWorld with Judi Paparelli (New Orleans, LA, USA)
▪Montana Public Radio, KGPR-FM (Great Falls, MT, USA)
▪GSU Radio, WRAS 88.5 (Atlanta, GA, USA) (2006)
▪Change Surfer Radio (USA) (2006)
▪Gulf Coast Live, WGCU (Fort Myers, FL, USA) (2004)
▪Making Waves with Fred PriceScience Girl, CHRW-CFM (Ontario, Canada)
▪Susan Weissman Radio, KPFK (Los Angeles, CA, USA) (1996)
▪Dan Gregory, Let’s Talk, WPBR 1340, (FL, USA) (1993)
▪Speak Out Miami, Spellorbeck Show, WKAT (Miami, FL, USA) (1978)
▪Craig Worthing, WKAT 1360 (Miami, FL) (1978)
▪Neil Rogers, WKAT 1360 (Miami, FL) (1977)
▪Miami Talk Radio (Miami, FL, USA) (1977)
▪Dick Syath Show, WKAT (Miami, FL, USA) (1975)
▪Craig Worthing, WINZ 940 (Miami, FL) (1974)
▪Art Merril Show (1973)
▪Bill Smith Show, WIOD (Miami, FL)
▪Several appearances on the Larry King Show, WIOD, (Miami, FL, USA) (1968, 1975, 1976)
Source: The Venus Project.com
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| Influential videos:
• Interview with Larry King. 1974
• Lecture at Nichols College. 1999
• The film " Future by Design" 2006
• The film "Spirit of the Time, the Next Step" 2007
• The film "Spirit of the Time, application" 2008
• Lecture in Stockholm. 2010
• The film "Paradise or Oblivion" 2012
• The film "The choice is ours" 2016
• Lectures “Excursion to the Venus Project”, 5 parts (in Russian). 2020
+ Lecture Series on website, YouTube:
The Venus Project
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▪ Daniel Lost
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