Jacque Fresco: biography, views, achievements. About The Venus Project and the stages of development of society

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The research center of the project is located on an area of 21.5 acres (≈ 0.087 km²) in the city of Venus, Florida, USA. The name of the project was given by the English name of the city, which in Russian means "Venus".

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Jacque Fresco developed the Venus Project for almost his entire life - from the beginning of the Great Depression in the United States. According to Fresco, in 1975 he established the Sociocyber Engineering project (eng. Sociocyberneering, Inc.), which evolved into the Venus Project in 1994.
To date, the ideas of the project have been presented in several books (“Designing the Future”, “The Best Money Can't Buy” and the like), documentaries (“Welcome to the Future”, “United Cities” produced by the BBC, “Paradise or Oblivion ”, “The Choice is Ours”) and numerous interviews (one of the most famous is an interview with Larry King in the 1970s). Some ideas are visually presented in the films Cities in the Sea and Self-Erecting Structures.
In many countries, local community chapters have been created, which are overseen, supported and developed by the activists of The Venus Project. On the territory of the CIS countries, the local public organization was named "Designing the Future". In addition, the project is supported by an international linguistic team that volunteers to translate and proofread materials into as many languages as possible.
On the official website of the organization, the visitor can download many materials for free: eBooks, movies, interview recordings, brochures, posters, flyers, etc., which are distributed under the CC BY-NC-ND license, which allows the free distribution of these files; read a list of recommended readings compiled from works by third-party authors, which is intended to help understand some of the aspects offered by the Venus Project - for example, those related to general semantics; see answers to the most frequently asked questions, including those on the topic of comparing solutions this project and decisions of other authors or public associations.
On proposals to publish drawings of specific technologies that, according to Jacque Fresco, have already been developed as part of the Venus Project, he refused, motivating it with the potential for commercialization, since, in his opinion, the indicator of convenience of living in the proposed cities would be unusually high, and in the modern monetary system, this will lead to a high cost of rent.

It is difficult for us to answer questions about design developments, about solar panels or the transport of the future - these are questions from the free enterprise system. We don't share the details with them, because people can abuse them or withdraw the patent - then they will appropriate our design and we won't be able to build anything. Therefore, we share general layouts without details.
Roxanne Meadows

Basic provisions

Jacque Fresco believed that the "Venus Project" is a holistic socio-economic system in which automation and technology will be intelligently integrated into all public spheres with the aim of raising the standard of living, and not making a profit, in contrast to the modern system. Profit must cease to play the role of a criterion in choosing decisions. Also, based on the fact that a person is a part of the environment, a new system of values of human existence is proposed (in accordance with the bearing capacity of the Earth), which would take care of the environment and all people, and would also correspond to nature human needs. Fresco considered these ideas quite realizable and practical.
It is expected that the implementation of the project will give society a wide range of opportunities that will lead to a new era of peace and sustainable development. The introduction of a resource-based economy aimed at the benefit of all mankind should eradicate crime, poverty, hunger, solve the problems of the homeless and many other topical issues that are relevant throughout the world today.
Most of the human problems in today's society are seen by The Venus Project as a consequence of living conditions in a monetary environment. For example, since automation facilitates manual labor by replacing it with machine labor, in monetary terms this leads to a decrease in overall purchasing power due to an increase in the number of unemployed people and the uncontrolled use of resources for profit. In a resource-based economy, automation would eliminate the need for routine work and increase the quality of products many times over, which would give more time to realize human creative potential and improve the standard of living of all people on the planet.

Project Goals

On the official website of the Designing the Future movement, the following goals of the Venus Project are declared:
1. Worldwide recognition of the natural resources of the Earth as the property of all mankind;
2. Cancellation of artificial borders separating people;
3. Transition from the money-oriented national economies of individual countries to the global resource-oriented economy;
4. Stabilization of the world's population through increased levels of education and voluntary birth control;
5. Environmental restoration;
6. Reconstruction of cities, transport systems, agricultural and industrial enterprises into energy-saving, environmentally friendly systems that can meet the needs of all people;
7. Gradual complete rejection of such forms of government as corporations and governments (local, national or transnational);
8. Interchange of technologies and their use for the benefit of all peoples;
9. Development and use of clean;
10. Making only the highest quality products for all people in the world (for example, by abandoning the concept of planned obsolescence);
11. Preliminary studies of any large construction projects for possible environmental impacts;
12. Encouragement of creativity and the creative principle in a person in all its manifestations;
13. Getting rid of the remnants of the past (nationalism, fanaticism) and prejudices by raising the level of education of the Earth's population;
14. Elimination of any kind of elitism, including technical;
15. Development of methodologies with scientific research rather than random opinions;
16. Creation of a new language of communication based on its convergence with the outside world (see General semantics);
17. Providing people not only with everything necessary for life, but also educating individuality with the help of tasks that stimulate the human mind;
18. Intellectual and emotional preparation of people for the coming changes.
Action plan

First step

The first step is to inform the public about the Venus Project. It has already been partially implemented. To inform about the project, videos, brochures, flyers, posters, press kits, the book "The Best That Money Can't Buy" (eng. The Best That Money Can't Buy), the possibility of free distance learning is provided. An international team of volunteer translators had translated the main site into thirteen languages by early 2013. Some materials, such as the films "Paradise or Oblivion" and "The Choice Is Ours", have already been translated into more than 25 languages.
Jacque Fresco and Roxanne Meadows as part of the presentation of the project was built Research Center an area of ten hectares in the city of Venus, Florida, USA. Every Saturday the center organizes regular tours for visitors. The energy, transport and construction technologies proposed by the Venus Project are not presented in their current form, which is explained by the insufficient amount of funds for their implementation. Visitors have the opportunity to see the models of structures and ask questions to Roxana Meadows.

Second phase

On January 23, 2016, the feature-length documentary "The Choice is Ours" was completed, which precedes the main feature film (a feature film at the fundraising stage, the script has already been written), which should vividly and clearly show how the proposed innovations will work in different areas around the world. world, and demonstrate a variant of a society in which man, nature and technology coexist and develop in a state of constant, stable, dynamic balance. A feature film, according to Jacque Fresco, should create a positive expectation among the audience of a peaceful society of the future, in which all people make up one big family on planet Earth.

Third stage

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Model of the city in the framework of the Venus Project

Creation of an experimental research city, which is planned to be built on collected donations and proceeds from the sale of previously made developments, as well as from income received after the release of the feature film. New technical and social ideas will be tested in the city - this will provide an opportunity to see their practical implementation and impact on the quality of life. It is envisaged that several cities will become part of the transition period and will evolve from semi-cooperative money-oriented communities to a resource-based economic model.

Fourth stage

After the experimental research city is built, work will be planned on a theme park that will entertain and inform visitors about purely human behaviors, as well as the environment's response to these types. Prerequisites will be created for the construction of a number of AI-integrated circular cities, houses, transport systems that do not pollute the environment; development of computer technologies of a new level and other types of technologies that help improve the lives of all people on the planet in the shortest possible time.

Association with the Zeitgeist movement

The Venus Project gained wide exposure in 2008 through the films Zeitgeist: The Appendix and Zeitgeist: The Next Step. Since about 2011, The Venus Project has positioned itself as separate from the Zeitgeist movement and has spoken of the independence of the project and the movement from each other due to the fact that, under the leadership of Peter Joseph, the Zeitgeist movement did not pay attention to the needs of the Venus Project and did not reflect the direction of development he proposed.

Criticism

Answers to many questions are given both on the official websites of the Venus Project and Designing the Future (see the FAQ section) and in the videos. However, it is not known that the Venus Project has detailed work or research on the following issues:
- How should implementation of all Venus Project proposals be ensured in practice, taking into account existing realities and limitations?
- What new problems can the implementation of the Venus Project and the transition to a resource-based economy bring, how are they taken into account within the framework of the proposed concept?
Due to the lack of specifics, the proposed concept is extremely difficult to falsify, which takes it out of the scope of scientific discussion. There are no independent sociological, psychological, and economic studies of the validity of the concept, but the proponents of The Venus Project claim that it is scientifically based.

Utopian project

Nicolina Olsen-Ruhl in a paper written for the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies), notes the following:

For most people, the promises of the project sound like an unattainable utopia, but if you learn more about the Venus Project, you will find surprisingly a large number of arguments that have a scientific basis, which open up a whole new world opportunities .

Morten Gronborg, also from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, notes:

It is possible that the modern interpretation of the word "utopia" sounds like an accusation when the polymath and futurist Jacque Fresco says that ... he does not want to call his life's work - "The Venus Project" - a utopia. In any case, this fantastic idea of a society of the future shares many characteristics with utopia. The word utopia has a double meaning - in Greek it can mean both a good place (eng. eutopia) and a non-existent place (eng. outopia). It is the “good place” that is what Jacque Fresco has dedicated his life to, and what Jacques Fresco is fighting for.

see also

Notes
1. About | The Venus Project (English) , The Venus Project
2. Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia(neopr.) . motherboard. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
3. Research Center/Tour | The Venus Project (English) , The Venus Project. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
4. Journal "Project Venus", p. 4 (indefinite) . Tio Trom. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
5. Public organization "Design Future"(Russian) (indefinite). Public Organization "Designing the Future". Retrieved 11 September 2017.
6. Section downloads movies and e-books organizations (indefinite) . Venus project. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
7. Jacque Fresco and the Venus Project. Publication technologies - Jacques Fresco - Project Venus (indefinite) (November 26, 2011). Retrieved 11 September 2017.
Jacques Fresco is a man who has been engaged for many years with the idea of organizing the social structures of the future, based not on traditional models of economy and consumption, but on opportunities. modern science. The goal of the project is the sustainable development of civilization without conflicts.
Jacques was born in 1916 and managed to catch the Great Depression, then he received a good education and became known as an industrial designer and architect. AT last years he is busy talking about the somewhat fantastical project of his dreams. Just a couple of days ago, Digital October hosted his lecture (live teleconference) about this project.
Jacques in his creative lab
Here are the main theses:
- The political system that worked well 50 years ago is now obsolete.
- Most modern systems we owe it to the Romans. But they had a different society.
- We have already produced a huge knowledge base. We need to develop it, not count money.
- Here are the calculations of what cities, systems of relationships, etc. should be like.
- Integration will be slow and smooth, but it needs to be done.
- The first thing to start with is to change the education system.
- The second is the transition to some form of government similar to communism.
- Third, consistent automation of all routine processes, including government work.
Review
Jacques began with a brief tour of his project. Among other things, he noted that one of the things that needs to be changed in the future is the language. The fact is that it is also outdated: depending on the context and cultural background, it allows you to perceive the same data in different ways. (note Orwell, with his newspeak, at one time summed up a fairly large base for why such a language is needed). AT new system there will be a new language, and without a high level of interpretation. For comparison, the language of mathematics and technology is a language that does not depend on cultural baggage, this language is the same. Engineers understand each other well. Technical papers will be read the same way anywhere on the planet. Communication in everyday language is very much tied to the context.
About politics
The political system worked well 50 years ago, but now science has made it completely obsolete - and it is about to change ours. social life. The Venus Project is a new social system.
I don't believe in the beauty of a money economy. I believe that most of the social vices are a consequence of the money economy.
The resource economy will have a higher efficiency. Over time, changing the economy will lead to a change in human behavior.
About the population
Our planet can only bear a certain amount of people. If we continue to develop as we are now, disputes, conflicts and so on will continue. A small number of countries control most of the natural resources - this leads to wars. The simplest way from the point of view of mankind is to agree that Natural resources belong to the whole world to all countries.
But for now, we can't do that. As long as we have police, military and other similar forces, as long as people live for themselves, there will be no civilized society. If such a community is formed, it will show a good rate of improvement in welfare, so all the “breakaways” will change their minds sooner or later. Jacques does not consider himself a utopian. Even what he is now designing will seem like a straitjacket to our children. The task is to move towards the better step by step, creating the ideal that seems optimal at the current moment and changing plans as the scientific, technical and social base grows.
Here is an example: in the future there should be no cars - only well-designed public transport. Such a system, for example, should work without traffic lights at all. Over time, all transport systems will be automated. The same goes for other city systems. The more time we have to design, the more we can automate.
Sooner or later we will automate the government.

About cities

This is the city of the future according to today's projects. All decisions about its design are made on the basis of scientific analysis. Designed by Jacque Fresco, www.thevenusproject.com

The structure of the city: the outskirts are residential areas, then scientific centers, then tents of cultural objects, the center is schools, shops, the core of transport systems, an intercity transport terminal, etc., the very center is a common information terminal, a kind of "oracle" that performs predictive function. The city assumes maximum use geothermal sources, high-rise construction and other technologies (note similar to the Habitat Cities from Reality Dysfunction). Designed by Jacque Fresco, www.thevenusproject.com
Today's system is built on limited resources, but it is possible to start acting - for example, designing cities - based on available and available resources, using some kind of technocratic solutions. Jacques shows his city project: “The whole city can be a park. It is not necessary, for example, to make kitchens in every house - you can make common restaurants.” The profession of a waiter will also go away - for example, if you are a diabetic, you will be offered only those dishes that you can.

“The first kitchen factory in the USSR was opened in the spring of 1925 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. Many processes of cooking, as well as washing dishes and cutting vegetables and bread, were mechanized there. She served eight canteens at the factories and factories of the city.
Control
One of the main postulates of culture is freedom of choice. However, now there is such a system (at least, Jacques is talking about the USA), in which people are chosen in order to maintain the existing order. That is why the state places great emphasis on loyalty: without loyalty, it is difficult to keep the system unchanged. Jacques believes that this needs to be revised: one should not “listen to the user”, but work as a system architect, putting forward, perhaps unpopular, but useful solutions for society and the planet as a whole. Already today, most people do not have loyalty to countries - and this is normal.
About the Terminator and technocracy
Jacques says the fear of cars comes from Hollywood. We see how machines kill people - and this creates fear. Over time, we will be able to design more powerful machines. There is no need to be afraid that machines can do more than a person, this has already happened a long time ago. Jacques does not believe that machines will experience emotions or have purposes of their own. They just can work perfectly without interruption.
About eugenics and education
Outstanding abilities are the product of the education of society. It's nice to think you were born a genius, but a genius can be raised. Genes determine a lot, but circumstances - social environment - often mean more. Jacques for natural processes and motivation. He tells how he taught children to read: he read aloud, and then, at the most interesting place, he yawned and said that he was tired. When the son asked what was next, he said: “Well, if you could read, you would have figured it out yourself.” Society should act in much the same way, motivating participants, not forcing them.
About communism
Communism painted a similar picture of a bright future, but did not provide solutions to problems. No religion, no philosophical movement offers solutions to specific problems. Communism did not abolish money, the police - it promised people work, but not creative work.
And finally - one more illustration about the project
Imagine that golden rain has begun. You collect gold dust and accumulate it in your closet... but the golden rain never ends, and the dust has nowhere to go - it depreciates! In the city of the future "Venus" there is no point in accumulating anything - everything should be in abundance!
About Jacques
Jacques looks like an old professor, loves specifics (“If you don’t like my answer, just say: I DID NOT ANSWER. Don’t need this courtesy”), he hates the patent system, the army and a number of other things that he considers hopelessly outdated. Soon he will be 96 years old: he does not want to “sit in a chair and wait for death”, instead he tries to keep abreast of everything that happens in the world.

No, this is not an Iron Man character, but Jacque Fresco in his youth.

Jacque Fresco- an ambiguous figure in the world of modern science. Someone perceives him as a person obsessed with the ideas of improving the world, someone considers the American designer and futurist a genius of our time. His views are extraordinary, sometimes utopian. Extraordinary ideas and intellect made Jacques Fresco one of the greatest scientists of our time.

Fresco was interested in issues of holistic design, social engineering, and developed the problem of rational management of natural resources. At the center of Fresco's research interests was the issue of a resource-based economy. According to the scientist, the path to a developed stable society lies through a reasonable distribution of food, intellectual, educational resources.

Biography of a scientist

Jacque Fresco was born in Brooklyn in the spring of 1916. The boy attended a comprehensive school. His interests and views differed from those of his peers. Young Jacques refused to swear allegiance to the flag of America, explaining that the achievements of scientific progress cannot be attributed to American scientists. This is a merit of the world scientific community. It would be wiser to be grateful to the population of the entire planet. After this incident, Fresco began to study on an individual program. After the death of the director of the school, the boy left her. Starting at the age of 14, he began to hitchhike.

The meeting in 1931 with A. Einstein turned out to be very important in the life of the scientist. From the age of 18, he became seriously interested in designing.

In 1940, Fresco returned from Fr. Tuamotu, where he communicated with the local population. After living with the natives for a year, the scientist came to the conclusion that by distributing resources it is possible to build a society without wars, violence, aggression. This trip became decisive in the views of the scientist.

During the Great Depression, Fresco wondered why a huge number of people are forced to starve when factories and factories are full of raw materials and resources. Money, according to Fresco, paralyzes society, makes it manageable and helpless at the same time. He expressed his views in the author's project "Venus".

Fresco said that scientists who spend their whole lives dealing with one problem will never be able to look objectively at the problem of humanity. Their views are one-sided. Most of the problems come down to how to distribute money among the top of society, instead of improving society, making it more intelligent, educated. A real scientist should take care of the global problems of mankind.

The dream of developing in the field of aviation has come true. While serving in the US Army, Jacques was able to participate in the development and improvement of wings, anti-freeze equipment for them, as well as the development of a security system. However, the design ideas were rejected.

In 1942, Fresco's work was rewarded. He received a patent for his own design - a model of a "radical variable deflection wing" for pilots.

Fresco participated in the Manhattan Project. He established himself as a brilliant constructor and designer, working on the projects of the "trend house" and "House-sandwich". It was assumed that housing should be built of glass and aluminum. To improve the quality of life of mankind, according to Fresco, possibly abandoning the idea of enrichment and becoming closer to nature. The ideas of budget houses were also not taken seriously, the request for support was rejected.

Scientific works and achievements

From the end of the 1940s, Fresco headed a research laboratory, where he lectured, designed, and acted as a scientific consultant. Since 1955 he moved to California, then to Miami, Florida. Here he participated in the design project of Alcoa and Major Realty.

Fresco outlined his extraordinary scientific views on the cybernetic community in the book Looking Forward, which made him popular. Jacques Fresco dealt with issues of sociocybernetics, later creating a corporation with the same name.

The reason for his excellent health and longevity, he explained the positive perception of life. Jacque Fresco died in 2017 at the age of 101.

Also, Jacque Fresco is one of the founders of a non-profit international non-governmental organization « Venus Project » (The Venus Project).

History

It all started in 1975 with the Sociocyber Engineering project, on the basis of which the Venus Project was founded in 1994.

The ideas of the project are popularized in books, from screens (several documentaries, films, interviews have been shot). Many different materials are available on the organization's website, including for download, so that anyone can understand the concepts of the project. As for specific developments, in particular technology drawings, they have not yet been made public.

There are local branches practically all over the world, including in the CIS (the "Designing the Future" movement). Volunteers, in particular translators, also help.

Basic provisions

"The Venus Project" is a socio-economic system with a resource-based economy in which technology and automation are used not for profit, but to improve the standard of living, and for all people. It must do away with many economic and social problems.

Project Goals

The founders and activists of the organization believe that the task is feasible if:
1. Recognize on a global scale the fact that the resources of the Earth belong to all;
2. Cancel borders between states;
3. Renounce money, corporations and governments;
4. Stabilize the world's population (voluntary birth control);
5. Restore the environment;
6. Make all available material objects environmentally friendly;
7. Sharing technology for the benefit of all;
8. Introduce renewable energy sources;
9. Produce only high quality products;
10. Carefully study large construction projects in order to prevent undesirable consequences for the environment;
11. Raise the level of education for all, encourage creativity and nurture individuality;
12. Create a new language of communication based on the proximity of people to the outside world;
13. Prepare the population of the Earth (intellectually and emotionally) for change.
Action plan

The transition is expected to occur in an evolutionary way. As the automation of production increases, purchasing power will decrease. Money will gradually become obsolete.

First step

The task of the stage is informing. This has already been partially implemented. In addition to published materials (in more than 25 languages), it is offered distance learning. The research center (American city of Venus, Florida) invites visitors to look at the layouts, find out their questions.

Second phase

In 2016, the documentary film "The Choice is Ours" was released. Funds are being raised for a feature film that will show the society of the future that implements the proposed ideas.

Third stage

Testing all ideas in an experimental research city.

Fourth stage

Creation of a theme park, the task of which is not only to entertain, but also to tell about different types of behavior and how they react to it Environment.

Association with the Zeitgeist movement

The project owes its fame to the films Zeitgeist: Appendix and Zeitgeist: The Next Step. But for several years now, the organization has been talking about its independence from this movement, explaining that it did not reflect the ideas of the project.

Criticism

Despite the assertions of the project's supporters that the concept has a scientific basis, it has many critics. No one has heard of independent research. There is no answer to questions about how this can be implemented in practice, and whether possible problems when switching to the new kind economic system. Some even call the "Venus Project" a utopia.

“We either learn to live together or we die alone.”

"If we make a film about modern culture and show it to the people of the future, it will be a horror film"

“The consumer society is a society of lonely people who have everything except what they really need”

“The problem is not that we cannot provide for the poor, but that we cannot meet the needs of the rich”

“If you believe that the world cannot be changed, it only means that you are not one of those who will change it”

“Earthlings do not have money to deliver water to the arid regions of the Earth, but they have money to look for water on Mars. After that, it is worth asking the question: is there a mind on Earth?

“The main danger is to sit idly by”

Once the great science fiction writer Robert Heinlein wrote: “... man showed miracles of ingenuity, inventing ways to kill, enslave, enslave and poison the lives of his own kind. Man is a vicious mockery of himself."

It's hard not to agree with these words... But there are people on Earth who understand that it can't go on like this anymore. This article is the story of Jacque Fresco's great dream and struggle.

Untimely projects

Jacque Fresco was born on March 13, 1916 in New York. Already in early years he showed an unusual craving for knowledge and contempt for authority. At the age of 14, he finally became disillusioned with the general education system. Fresco always said that schools do not turn children into free-thinking people, but only into gears and parts of a huge mechanism.

He also had a special relationship with religion. He admitted that he reads the Bible instead of a book of jokes and sincerely does not understand how people do not notice all the inaccuracies and contradictions.
The turning point in his life was the Great Depression.

Fresco could not understand why millions of people suffer from unemployment, lack of money and hunger, while all the plants, factories, machines, equipment and resources have not gone away. In the future, he devoted his life to the development of alternative ways of development for mankind.

In the late 1930s, he took a job with the Douglas Aircraft Company, where he worked in design and engineering. One of his projects was aircraft in the form of a disk, but this and other projects of Jacques were considered impractical and untimely. He eventually left the company, earning a reputation for being "twenty years ahead of his time."

Fresco was hired by American entrepreneur Earl Muntz, nicknamed the Mad One. The employer wanted Jacque Fresco to create a "passive house". The idea was a new approach to construction, because such a house of aluminum and glass could be erected in a matter of hours. This was proven when ten people finished building a house within eight hours.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Fresco ran a research laboratory he had set up in Los Angeles. There he lectured and taught courses in technical design, while at the same time he worked as a freelance consultant to pay for his research and inventions. He soon ran into financial difficulties and moved to Florida after the municipality demolished his lab building because that was the site of the new highway.

In Florida, Fresco continued his consulting work for various organizations. Then he joined the Ku Klux Klan and the Council of White Citizens of America. Interestingly, each cell of the above-mentioned organizations that he joined fell apart very soon. Much later, he admitted that he deliberately joined them in order to convince the people who were there of the fallacy of their views. Essentially, Fresco was destroying organizations from within.

In the 1960s, Jacques began work on ring towns. He designed in detail their structure, transport system, residential complexes... However, the question arose of how to organize the management of such cities in the most rational way in order to minimize the human factor. And then the idea of sociocybernetics appeared, the basics of which were presented in Fresco's book "Looking Forward", written by him in collaboration with Ken Case.

This publication described the cybernetic society of the future, where routine work was transferred to automated systems that freed people for creative self-knowledge. In the future, this concept formed the basis of the Venus Project.

For all mankind

In 1980, Fresco bought land plot an area of 21.5 acres in the town of Venus (Venus) in Florida. There he established his research center and began building self-designed buildings.

In 1994, Fresco, together with his colleague Roxanne Meadows, officially registered the Venus Project as a public organization. The scheme of the ring city became the symbol of the project.
Fresco offered an alternative path of development for all mankind. It was a whole range of practical solutions for different tasks. The main directions can be distinguished in it: resource-based economy, energy, cities and cybernetization.

Resource based economy

Today, all resources on Earth are distributed by the monetary system. It is inherently unfair, since the number of things available is determined by the size of your wallet. This creates a paradox: almost half of humanity is undernourished, and a billion are starving. At the same time, almost 50% of all food produced on the planet rots in warehouses and supermarkets in developed countries.

There is also such a thing as "programmed obsolescence" - a disgusting policy of most manufacturers, when products are deliberately made of poor quality. In most cases, immediately after the warranty period, it breaks down or becomes unusable. Consumers have to repair it or buy a new one. This is not surprising in a society where the measure of everything is profit.

That is why even in the most developed countries there is corruption, fraud, robbery and other crimes. In addition, it is because of the resources that endless wars take place. Thousands of young men and women die not for the freedom of their homeland, but for someone's greedy interests.

The Venus Project proposes to take a global inventory of all available resources and infrastructure and declare them the property of all mankind, and not a handful of banks and corporations. As Fresco reiterates, people do not need money, but access to resources and services. In this economy, everyone will be able to get everything they need without paying. There will be enough resources for everyone with their proper distribution.

Energy

To ensure uninterrupted power supply, the project provides for the development of environmentally friendly and highly efficient technologies.

One of these options could be geothermal energy. It can provide 500 times more energy than all hydrocarbons combined. When it is mined, pollutants are not emitted - all that comes out of geothermal stations is steam.

Thermonuclear fusion, in which hydrogen atoms, when combined, turn into helium, is very interesting. This is a process similar to what happens in the depths of stars. In modern nuclear power plants, radioactive waste remains after operation, and during thermonuclear fusion, only harmless helium is formed.

A project for a bridge across the Bering Strait was also developed. It was supposed to equip it with turbines to obtain energy from ocean currents. You can also use the energy of wind, solar, tides, ocean currents, temperature differences, bacteria, biomass, electrostatics, etc.

Cities

According to Fresco, it is much easier to build new cities than to continue to support old ones. The cities of the future must have a multi-level ring system. Each such city is an autonomous system with minimal environmental impact. They will include research centers and laboratories, sports facilities, schools, hospitals, workshops, music and art studios, and product distribution points. All waste will be processed inside the city in special zones, and not piled up in landfills, as it is today.

Each city will have an individual design, depending on the goals, location, population. In the arctic or desert zones, it is possible to build underground cities.

All houses and buildings will be erected from ready-made blocks using mega-machines. Materials for all buildings - ceramic and carbon, are not afraid of the elements and earthquakes, because they can bend without deformation. Houses will accumulate solar energy and regulate the temperature inside the premises. All the electronics so necessary for a modern person is built into the walls and forms a single integrated system with the house.

The creation of sea cities can significantly relieve the land and provide food for mankind. Such cities will clean up and support the ecology of the oceans. They will have fish farms for breeding commercial fish species. Thanks to the latest technologies, it will be possible to receive electricity directly from ocean currents.

Cybernetization

Everything will be automated in the future. Artificial intelligence systems integrated with infrastructure will enable unprecedented levels of production. All data will flow to control centers to coordinate all processes and plan future work. Supercomputers will be able to monitor the transport system, the redistribution of energy flows, improve and develop medical and educational programs. Much of this does not require human intervention.

Millions of people will finally breathe a sigh of relief, as they no longer have to struggle for existence every day. Instead of performing daily repetitions, each earthling will receive the opportunity for self-improvement action, traveling, studying new scientific disciplines. This will unlock the true potential of everyone.

Utopia - ideal world

A lot of people criticize Jacque Fresco and his project. He is accused of idealism and utopianism. In response, he says that a utopia is an ideal world, and any ideal world is doomed to collapse, since it has nowhere to develop further. Fresco proposes to found a new, constantly developing and evolving world, in which there is no place for political regimes, senseless wars, terror, poverty and hunger. A world that thousands of generations of people dreamed of, but never got to see.

Today, Jacque Fresco is already 98 years old, but he is still cheerful, has a clear mind and devotes all his free time to research and experimentation. He travels the planet a lot and tells people about the great future that will become a reality if we are responsible for ourselves and our planet.

Adilet URAIMOV

Jacque Fresco, a 99-year-old American industrial designer, industrial engineer and futurist, is the founder and director of the Venus Project. The main topics of his lectures are cities of sustainable development, an economy based on the rational use of natural (natural) resources, universal automation and others. Consider further what is the essence of the Venus project.
Prerequisites for the emergence
The Venus Project is a change in the culture of people living today. The idea is to build the future with new people who are convinced of the futility financial system and artificially formed resource deficit. The main directions of social arrangement according to the scheme proposed by the author will be the economy of common funds and automated high technologies. These elements will be able to provide absolute satisfaction of needs. The Venus Project by Jacques Fresco aims to shift the attention of the planet's population from the aggressive possession of resources towards useful and cognitive activity. This will allow in the future to maintain the quality of life of each individual at a high level.
Lecture in Stockholm
The Venus Project is a research center located in pc. Florida, in Venus. He gained his popularity thanks to the film released in 2008 - Zeitgeist: Appendix. Jacque Fresco - the author of the project - together with Roxanne Meadows (his assistant) create a model of the future, according to which nature, technology and man will exist in dynamic balance. The scheme excludes any neglect to any of the elements of the system. Scientists are developing the Venus project in Russia and abroad, holding lectures and seminars, teaching materials. Doers' efforts are focused on finding true reasons existing global problems in society. The conclusions that scientists make predict serious upheavals at every level of the existence of civilization.
Defense industry
Jacque Fresco in his lectures draws attention to the fact that the world has a technological potential, the scale of which is enormous. In modern conditions, developed technical means, which are expressed in patents that make it easier to work and get the expected results. The potential that Fresco speaks of is growing every year. A huge amount of resources is spent on the formation of military power, maintaining the army in combat readiness, improving defense production in order to ensure security and preserve the sovereignty of states. The budgets of many countries provide for the injection of billions for these needs. This is mainly due to the fact that all internal and external conflicts are usually resolved by force. Directly or indirectly, the redistribution of funds from the defense sector has an impact on the well-being of the civilian population. The Venus project by Jacques Fresco primarily involves cutting funding for the military industry. This will ensure the safety budget funds. The released flows should be directed to the development of scientific industries that are useful to society. Sooner or later, this will have a positive impact on the quality of life of citizens.
monetary system
The financial institution has been around for a long time. In modern conditions, it generates permanent economic inequality, dividing the population into rich and poor. In an effort to take possession of natural resources, people use different market instruments. If they do not contribute to the achievement of the result, forceful aggression and bribery are used. A shortage is artificially formed, a monopoly develops, and the development of new products slows down. A relatively small group of people thus manipulate production volumes and, accordingly, pricing. For example, to prevent abundance in the agricultural sector, some states pay extra for small yields. This avoids the bankruptcy of enterprises and default. In other countries, on the contrary, rigid frameworks are formed, with the help of which the production level is forcibly reduced. All this contributes to the development of corruption, social inequality, theft and other vices of society.
Crises
In his speeches, Fresco gives a formula that exists due to the functioning of the banking and monetary systems: Z = X + Y, where X is the existing money; Y - income from interest that the debtor must pay.
The latter represent indirect slavery. Money Y must be printed, because in reality they do not exist, because they are not backed by real material values. Loans contribute to inflation. Banks that have money do not give it away for free. They use them to satisfy their own needs, to create a carefree life for themselves. At the same time, in the process of creating shortages and other economic restrictions, labor depreciates and prices rise. Fresco says that, in fact, the credit and banking structure is formed in the form of a financial pyramid. The result of its existence will be the absolute collapse of the entire system. Evidence of the destructive effect of the financial structure is enough difficult situation in the European Union, an increase in national debts of countries, filling markets with cheap Chinese goods, crisis waves. All this became the basis on which the Venus project began to be built.
people behavior
The main influence on him is their environment and upbringing. A person is thus shaped by conditions, Fresco believes. The Venus Project is based on the constant change and movement of the world due to the operation of natural law. Taking into account the creation of new technologies and the developing crisis in the arrangement of society, a new system should be formed to replace the old one.
Depression and Self-Esteem: Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project
Man is not born merciless and cruel. The environment makes it aggressive. Fresco believes that the opinion that the formation of the character of people occurs under the influence of genes is erroneous. People cannot be born with hatred and malice towards each other. All these qualities and reactions are formed and developed in the process of gaining life experience. Undoubtedly, the nature of man requires to determine the boundaries of his territory, to impose rivalry for property and prey. But in abundance material assets, which suggests the project "Venus" by Jacques Fresco, there will be no point in fighting. A person is formed under the influence of:
- Parents.
- mentality.
- Friends.
- Religions.
- financial condition.
- Education.
- The level of information content of the environment and other things.
Everything that happens depends on people. Everyone must choose a constructive or destructive path of development. A person will take a step and attract the future. It will be followed by a change in one's own consciousness and a transition to a qualitatively new level.
Values
They have a special meaning for a person of our time. Values depend on the environment in which the individual grew up. Due to the fact that the conditions surrounding people act as a product of selfishness and the monetary system, a person becomes naturally predictable. Those who grew up under the influence of capitalist ideals will care about building a business and making a profit more than meeting the needs of others. AT modern world any enterprise that directs its cash flows to improving the well-being of its employees in the first place, and not to the purchase of new equipment and advertising, has less opportunity to compete in the market.
Law
The existing norms, of which there are a huge number, are not able to solve the main problems of society. The tops of the administrative apparatus and the bureaucracy legitimize corruption and theft of the elite. At the same time, petty crimes of citizens belonging to the low and middle class are punished to the fullest extent. As long as natural resources are used to improve the well-being of the elect, as long as there are needy and disadvantaged, no one, even people who respect morality, will be able to stop fraud, lies and other vices in power. No matter how many laws are invented, there will always be violators. This will gradually lead to a weakening, and subsequently to the loss of the human rights function of the norms. At the same time, restrictions will increase and punishment will be tougher. At the same time, the moral side of a person does not change either at large or during imprisonment in prison. Thus, governments do not eliminate the cause, but temporarily eliminate the consequences of the disease of society. The Venus project by Jacques Fresco is focused on relieving people of the constant need to earn money in order to provide themselves with basic necessities. They must be freed from oppression and the struggle for survival.
"Paradise or Oblivion" (Jacque Fresco: The Venus Project)
The purpose of the model is to form a global civilization in which a resource-oriented economic system will function, a network of "smart" cities will be developed, and universal automation will be used. In the modern world, robots and machines quite successfully replace humans in manufacturing process. This, in turn, contributes to the reduction of jobs, lower wages. As a result, unemployment rises, declines. Jacques Fresco's Venus project is aimed at automation, which acts both as a path to collapse and as a movement towards a new order of the world. Developed cybernetization and artificial intelligence will significantly reduce the cost of mankind for monotonous activities.
Principles
The implementation of the project is based on a scientific approach. The model of the future involves the use of time-tested methods and principles. according to Fresco, choosing between astrology, magic and science, he will give preference to the latter. An educated person can understand the universal language of disciplines, understandable formulas and interpretations. Project implementation should start with a complete overhaul of:
1. physical resources.
2. production capacity.
3. Personnel.
4. Places of accumulation.
5. The needs of the people.
Having formed an information base on the location of resource sources, the construction of certain objects, human needs, work processes, built-in sensors will ensure the transfer of up-to-date data to the server system. Based on them, artificial intelligence will subsequently analyze and solve actual problems. A resource-oriented economic model will achieve high performance. Today, there are already developments that can provide the population of the Earth with endless supplies of energy. As driving forces it is supposed to use:

Available technologies
Today, methods have already been developed, using which it is possible to build power plants to generate an endless stream of energy. For example, geothermal plants can produce five hundred times more power than all the world's minerals. In a number of countries, energy that is extracted from the depths of the earth provides heat to greenhouse plants. Energy can be obtained by erecting electric turbines in areas of fast water flow. For example, in the Gulf Stream. It is possible to connect the shores of the Bering Strait and use this bridge as a transport channel for moving material, collecting seafood, and international travel. The model of the future makes anyone practically free. As for the rest of the nuances of completing certain technological operations, this will become a matter for enthusiasts.
Public opinion
The "Venus" project in Russia and in other countries is very ambiguous. Many talk about the utopian ideas of the author. Evaluating the model, the opinion is expressed that the most important thing is missing in the scheme - a clear plan for overcoming the crisis. Reviews of the Venus project are mostly negative. According to many members of the public, the author does not offer evolutionary development. His model is focused on the destruction of the existing system, a structure that has been formed over millennia.
Criticism of the "Venus" project by Marxists is harsh enough. They consider the proposed concept "utopian socialism of the twenty-first century." In fact, Fresco offers an alternative to private property - production facilities. As the model suggests, after enlightenment and clarification, people should simply choose the proposed idea and follow it. In such a subjective approach, Marxists see the utopianism of the project. The author himself does not really offer anything specific. He only believes that all crises will be eliminated only because the system will independently destroy the prerequisites for their occurrence. He proposes to speed up this process by destroying the monetary system.