Interview with futurist Jacque Fresco: “All of the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to nothing unless it elevates humans to their highest potential. This is the aim by the future of design.”
“Civilization is not a static state. It’s a process that’s constantly going on.” For futurist Jacque Fresco, the great commitment of future design is to foresee, integrate, and to influence these changes in a way that improves the quality of life for both humans and the environment.
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Very few men exist that have succeeded, with their inventions and ideas, in leaving a significant mark on humanity’s history. Watching the Jacque Fresco’s interview with Larry King in 1974, a person is left with the impression of finding himself looking at a modern Leonardo da Vinci. The designs and projects that he shows to the public quickly reveal the personality of a great visionary of the future. Fresco is both a scientists, an architect, a designer, and an engineer; but most importantly he is a great philosopher, a man who has spent nearly a century studying our society and elaborating ideas that support and increase the well-being of mankind.
Beyond having taken part in projects having to do with both technology and science (from automated vehicles to biomedical equipment, in order to create real self-sustainable cities), he is also the founder of the Venus Project. The Venus Project is an organization that proposes a feasible plan of action for social change. Since 1975, Jacque has dedicated his life to social design in concrete ways, by promoting books, teaching at universities, and explaining his project to whomever wants to believe in a new civilization that is based on the wellbeing of mankind.
One day we will buy ourselves an apartment in a floating city. The city will be self-sustainable, energy efficient, and will have no negative impact on the environment. This is not a scene from a science-fiction movie; this is the world that Jacque Fresco has in mind. And this world is possible to create, even today. A world where students and researchers will be able to attend university underwater, and look out a window in order to observe the natural ecosystems of the ocean. According to the “social designer and futurist”, as Fresco likes to call himself, humanity already has in its hands the necessary tools to innovate and reconstruct our world. Science and technology alone are not enough: it is necessary to have an optimistic view, and the will to completely redesign our culture and our way of life.
On the Venus Project’s website, Fresco invites everyone to not dream with eyes open, because for the first time in human history we have the possibility to choose: to continue to destroy the our planet, or to carry out the dreams of the great men of the past.
More Info:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htag1ABr494
- http://www.futurebydesignthemovie.com
- http://www.thevenusproject.com
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One day we will (buy)REST IN (ourselves an) apartment/S/ in a floating city. DONT THINK HE WOULD HAVE SAYED IT THAT WAY ( IF WE ADOPTED THE VIEWPOINT OF JACQUE ) THAT IS , IN USING THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD TO OVER COME THE NEED OF MONEY THE BUYING OF GOODS. BY USING THE METHODS NOT OPINIONS.