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Hello!
In 1974
Jacque Fresco appeared on Larry King show. 1974.
This is how the interview begins:
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.
— Well. What does it say in your driver's license?
What is the occupation?
— Industrial Designer ...
— Jacque you were...
— 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.
For the past eighty five years
Jacque Fresco has blessed us with his unwavering commitment and uncompromising
work to re-engineer a better future.
He is the founder of The Venus Project which integrates science and technology
into a comprehensive plan for a new society based on human
and environmental concerns.
The Venus Project proposes a system in which automation and technology are
intelligently integrated into a holistic social economic design with a primary
function is to maximize the quality of life rather than profits.
Jacque Fresco has recently celebrated his hundredth birthday
and he couldn't join us today but he is watching us right now.
On behalf of all of us, Mr. Fresco,
thank you and your partner Roxanne Meadows for your vision your tireless
research extraordinary life achievements and everlasting legacy.
Mr. Fresco, we are beginning to get there, we are beginning to get ready for this
advanced kind of thinking, we are getting there and you have been a critical force
for that change.
Please a warm round of applause for Mr. Jacque Fresco.
This is Julio who will pick up the award.
I am deeply honored and appreciate this prestigious recognition for my work with city design.
These cities are part of a broader picture that I've dedicated my life toward.
My aim was to identify the root causes of the problems we face today
and pose alternatives for them.
I concluded it was the social design itself that creates the unnecessary human
suffering when at the same time, we have the technical ability and the resources
that can surpass our present conditions.
Jacques proposes a new holistic socio-economic design
he calls a Resource-Based Economy in which the methods of science and
technology are integrated to maximize the quality of life for all people.
This project also introduces a set of practical values to give people a better
understanding of our relationship to one another and the environment.
One fundamental premise is that we work toward having all of these resources as
the common heritage of all the world's people.
It requires the intelligent management of the Earth's resources
in order to achieve a high standard of living for the entire global population.
Anything less will simply result in a continuation of the same problems we have today.
This also incorporates a system's approach to architecture
which is in harmony with nature.
All cities will be designed to upgrade with a minimum expenditure of energy
using the cleanest technology available.
We are now organizing to initiate
the very first city under our recently formed 501c3 organization called
Resource-Based Economy.
We welcome your inquiry and participation
to help build this new innovative city.
Now we operate under the name The Venus Project out of Venus Florida.
We invite you to learn more about this positive alternative at THEVENUSPROJECT.COM
Thank you for this opportunity!
Again, thank you very much for this award!
We have a Jacque Fresco and The Venus Project.
We thank you very much!
Yeah. That was really inspiring. It's amazing ....