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Leonardo Da Vinci was a self taught renaissance man.
As a scientist, artist and inventor,
Da Vinci's genius led to an unprecedented body of work.
The drawings he left behind remain as
testaments to his innovation and originality
One of Da Vinci's main inhibitions
was the lack of materials needed to transform his concepts into reality.
Jacque Fresco is also a self-taught scientist, architect and inventor.
For his entire life he has been deeply committed
to investigation, insight and innovation.
A prolific creator and builder,
Jacque has been redesigning our entire culture for most of his life.
While Da Vinci needed advanced materials,
Fresco has lacked access to the social and political resources needed
to realize his most far reaching ideas.
August, 1974
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.
Consultant -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...
What does it say on your driver's license?
What is the occupation?
Industrial Designer.
Jacque, do you, ah...
Social Engineer.
Does it bug you that,
people when they talk about Jacque Fresco in Miami,
say that he's someone who's 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.
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Jacque Fresco is a futurist.
A futurist is someone for whom all thoughts and actions
are based upon what tomorrow could be.
He has been planning for the future since the 1920's.
Not only is he a philosopher and theorist,
but an engineer, industrial designer and social planner.
As a multi-disciplinarian,
he has studied everything from theology to behaviorism,
and from biology to the material sciences.
Jacque Fresco doesn't want to just talk
about what today will be like tomorrow.
He has a plan: to build an entire new world from the ground up.
I'd like to go from the time you first started conceiving of drawings.
Started drawing?
Oh, that's very early. Eight/nine, eight or nine years old.
About the future?
Yes.
I was always interested in the future. As far back as I can remember.
There was a motion picture called Metropolis.
It was different; it took my attention. It was the first out-of-the-box type movie.
It depicted the future as a regimented system, which was totally unacceptable.
But the architecture was interesting and the robotics in that film were interesting.
I drew airplanes and cities of the future
and underwater cities and floating cities
and skyscrapers with landing platforms on them.
I drew my idea of what a post office ought to be.
Since the airport was so far from the post office,
they had a truck deliver that
I figured, 'here's these long post offices, why couldn't we land on top,
pick up the mail directly and fly onward?
So I would draw landing platforms on the rooftops of buildings,
slightly angular so the airplane didn't have trouble landing
it couldn't be as long but it would be slowed up by the incline.
But then take off, they would go in reverse.
Then I tried ships,
drawing of passenger freighter ships, then aircraft carriers.
And I showed it to my principal.
So he said, "Have you ever heard of Bucky Fuller?"
I said, "No. "
So he says, "Would you like to meet him?"
I said, "Yeah, sure. What is he?"
He says, "An inventor. Like you. He thinks up a lot of new things. "
Buckminster Fuller was one of the 20th century's most renowned futurists.
Known primarily as the inventor of the geodesic dome,
Fuller was a proponent of using technology with a humanistic approach.
And there was Bucky Fuller.
He was seated there, with his car called the Dimaxion.
And I said, "What does that mean?"
And he said, "It's the highest form that can be attained
in shape. "
I talked to him about social things.
"What about changing society to some other form
whereby all people can benefit from the works of industry?"
He said, "What do you mean?"
I said, "Well, if all... instead of working people going out on strike
give them a piece of the action.
And so if business improved, they all got automatic pay.
If it went down, they got less pay.
So, he sat back and he said,
"What are you, some kind of social planner?
Is that what you want to be? "
I said, "I don't know what the name is, but I think that would work.
It would give people more incentive.
He says, "Let me tell you something.
It's tough enough just getting a new automobile out there.
If you're trying to change society... "
This is years before he even lectured on things.
Albert Einstein once said,
"The problems we have cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking with which we created them. "
Did you meet Einstein? Albert Einstein?
Yes.
Where did you get the idea to meet Albert Einstein?
I was outside a theatre called Radio City
I saw a girl come out a woman come out with gray hair sticking up.
I said, "Looks like Einstein's sister," to my friends.
And then Einstein came out.
And I think it was his sister.
So, I was just kidding about that. And I walked over and I said,
"Is it possible to meet with you?" He said, "Why?"
I said, "I have thousands of questions I want to ask.
He said, "I live in Princeton, New Jersey. "
So, tell me about the day you went and met him.
Well, I went to his home. And it was modest.
I said that "There seems to be harmony in nature.
How do you feel about that? "
He said, "Yes. The Universe is lawful.
But harmony, I don't know what you mean by that.
I said, "Well, when a rat eats insects, it may be supporting the rat system,
but what about the insect system? "
What he did is he used some water from a backyard -swamp water
and he put it under a microscope and he said,
"Look. Everything is fighting everything else.
As in the human body, everything is fighting everything else.
In the ocean, big fish eat little fish. "
I didn't really have enough time to sit there with Einstein
and go through all kinds of things, because he didn't seem to be in that area.
He did, "Are you interested in Mathematics?"
Mathematics.
"What Bullion Geometry means to you?"
You know. I didn't want to get off into that,
because to me, that would be a sidetrack.
Mathematics is a tool, just like sociology and anthropology.
These are all instruments that go into making up the future.
When the stock market crashed in 1929, Jacque was only 13 years old.
Coming of age during the Great Depression prompted many
questions for the curious and inquisitive young man.
Living in New York City, he found the squalor
and suffering around him difficult to understand.
The confusion, contradictions and struggles he
saw left a significant impact on his character.
Things were so bad, and I had no way of looking at it.
And I thought the rules of the game were somehow screwed up.
I went to many different meetings:
Communist meetings, Socialist meetings, Fascist meetings,
Mankind United, Technocracy
to see what the world was teaching, including Eastern philosophy.
And I wanted to know what people thought, what they wanted.
Why they gelled on one system,
and that each time a society arrived at a system, they tend to keep that system.
They didn't even try to go beyond that.
But in technology, whenever we made anything, we tried to surpass it.
The history of civilization for me then was the history of change.
Social change, human arrangements, homes, boats, planes, trains,
all of them were in a process of social evolution.
Including our language, our outlook, our values, our behavior.
As the depression wore on, Jacque left New
York and started hitchhiking around the country.
In his travels, he met many interesting and different people,
most of whom were, like himself, searching
for a way of life that was fair and equitable.
Eventually, he ended up traveling to the warm waters and primitive islands of Tahiti.
I wanted to go to the South Seas because I liked the idea of the natives sharing things
I'd read about that.
Now the Chief, if he had six wives and you were strange,
he would say, "Here's my best wife. Maybe she will please you. "
They felt their wives gave them so much joy; perhaps they'd give a visitor some joy.
You know? Their thinking about it was different.
And that upset - it caused me to ponder,
"Hey, gee. That's not the way I saw things.
Was that the way I saw things or was that the way I was indoctrinated.
That's when I began to ask those questions.
"So how do you know that anything you like makes sense, Jacque?
What about your own values. Think about them. Maybe they are senseless. "
Concerned that Tahiti would be invaded; Jacque
returned to the US and joined the army Air Corp.
When the war was over, thousands of factories stood idol.
Their manufacturing capacity no longer needed for wartime production.
Capitalizing on the tremendous capacity available for aluminum fabrication,
Jacque designed and built a house made entirely from aluminum extrusions.
The result was an innovative and extremely efficient use of time and materials.
The windows, for example, were put in and then extrusions snapped in,
and, with a seal, and so it was very rapid.
It took something like twelve minutes to put all the windows in,
eight hours to put up the building.
1948 it was unveiled at Warner Brothers and there were lines all around the studio.
Thousands of people came to see it.
And airplanes with smoke written through the sky,
"Visit the trend home at Warner Brothers Studios. "
It was publicized in newspapers,
I think the Architectural Record, as one of the first mass-produced type homes.
Jacque appreciated the challenges of innovative problem solving.
As he honed his skills, he became a competent inventor.
He always had a research lab and was constantly inventing new products.
While much of his time was spent pursuing his own interests,
he was also hired by entrepreneurs to design and fabricate specific inventions,
working in a very broad array of technologies.
He invented everything from medical and dental
devices to 3D motion picture projection systems.
A guy named Jack Moss was a film producer at the time.
I met him at Warner Brothers Studios. He came to see the Trend Home.
And he was awed by everything fitting
together so sensibly and he said,
"How do you guys think of these things?"
So I began to describe how I thought about things
and then he found me interesting and he said
"Come on out to the house. " He had a big estate. And he said,
Do you think you can make a movie projector
that projects 3-D images without glasses? "
So, I said yes. He said, "How do you know you can do it?
You've never done it. " I said, "That's right, but if it's a physical phenomenon,
I think I can work it out. "
"How are you going to do it?"
I said, "I don't know yet. "
What I did was, I had many different applications,
which I'd rather not describe in detail,
but I got 3-D imaging different ways and the simplest way
was projecting the right and left eye image
from behind the screen at the right eye/left eye.
Now, then, if you moved off to the side, you lost your image.
And so, Jack wanted Technicolor to go the rest of the way.
So he got them to come out and look at it.
And they said, "How do you do that? It's very interesting.
I said, "We're not at liberty to disclose that unless you back the next stage. "
So they said, "How do you maintain visual isolation?"
I said, "I still can't discuss that with you. "
So, they looked at it and it was super - clear, no lines, and they said,
"Well, that's the best I've seen up to now, but it fades at 30 degrees. "
I said, "Yes it does. " "And at a distance, it fades, too, as you move back. "
So they said, "Can you do anything about that?"
I said, "Yes. That's why you're here. To take it to the next stage. "
So they said, "Look, Jacque. You get rid of the fade
and you get rid of the distance problem, then call us. "
So, that died. Like the trend home died.
Then I read in the books on inventions how Alexander
Graham Bell had to make the telephone before they backed it.
The Xerox machine, it had to be made completely.
Edison had to make the electric lamp. Nobody
backed him on the way up until after he was known.
What are these for? What were these all about?
These are… these are various… these are surgical instruments, aren't they?
Yes, various types - and those are only some of them.
Do you know what a retractor is? Holds the skin open while you're operating?
These are various types of retractors.
The purpose of that was to rotate the bone so
it's in line before you put the prosthesis in.
It rotates the femur - the upper region of the femur.
Those are tweezers with holes in them.
If you look at the holes on the front, you can put
the sutures through to guide you through the muscle.
So you put it over the muscle and the holes are right through the middle of the muscle
so you don't have to eyeball it.
So, these are things that you designed…
A long time ago. - Under contract.
Oh yes. I did thousands of different things.
But this doctor took the patents out in his name.
But that's alright, as long as it's out there.
I didn't know what I wanted to be.
You know, since I looked at all things, and tried
to change all things, wheelchairs, everything.
Make 'em better, you know. I found it easy to invent.
But then, inventions cost money. I didn't have money for patents.
So I used to make thousands of different inventions,
and just file them away because I had no money.
I used to spend my savings, whatever I earned on what equipment that I needed
And if I was working on an artificial leg, and I was $200 behind,
I would take my last $200 and work on that, you know, and I'd solve that problem.
But then the rent would be due and the electric bills and I couldn't pay them.
So the auctioneers would be sent in to auction off everything in my lab.
So I had to sit back. I couldn't adjust to say, "Well, I
gotta setaside $25 for rent, $200 for this, for a machine.
I couldn't do that because I was very near the answers.
And the type of problems I worked on were
outside of the frame of reference of most science.
In the fluorescent tube, you have high voltage moving along
and you have a transformer that generates it and you put a phosphor material that glows,
but the tube is round.
And the phosphor on the back side does nothing
it's only the phosphor on the front side.
So I wanted to extrude the tube so it's elliptical
so you have more light surface in an elliptical tube.
Then I wanted to mirror back the back of the tube,
instead of putting a big reflector outside there,
put the mirror inside the tube.
So, I didn't have the money to make that tube. Then
I said, what the hell are you making a tube for?
Why don't you work on a flat sheet of glass that phosphors? That glows?
Make glass that's electrically conductive. How do
you make non-conductive electrically conductive?
By putting metallic particles in the glass. And phosphors. What would happen?
The electrical current would flow through the glass,
animate the phosphors so you have a flat sheet.
You don't want a lamp. A lamp is only giving light on one side.
I wanted the whole surface to glow.
Over time, Jacque's ideas about the future became more well-organized and focused.
Gradually, he began to combine his
technological expertise with what he had learned
about human behavior, sociology and social structure.
I spent so many years improving area by area.
I said, "look the whole society is aberrated, the way we do things. "
Why not redesign society. It'd be easier
than making all these thousands of products.
So you really decided to redesign the culture.
Because I couldn't get, I... patchwork didn't work. It wasn't sufficient.
So, they thought I was a communist. After all,
a guy who wanted to redesign society, what else?
What is Sociocyberneering?
Sociocyberneering is a new organization.
And it represents the application of the most sophisticated
forms of science and technology toward problem solving,
so that we can reclaim the environment which we loused up over the years,
and to build a way of life worthy of man.
To humanize society, to break away from the artificiality,
the regimentation that dominates our society today.
Our society seems torn apart and pulled in many directions.
Sociocyberneering is an approach at the restructuring of society
in humanistic terms.
The mission of Sociocyberneering was to build a residential research center,
developing and demonstrating new technologies and innovative social concepts
within a community setting.
On a barren scrap of land in central Florida, Jacque and a few friends
began to build what is now known as The Venus Project,
named after the tiny nearby village of Venus, Florida.
Occupying some 25 acres, 10 buildings have been constructed;
each utilizes both design, construction and lifestyle concepts
integral to developing a working model of harmony and high productivity
integrating both nature and advanced technology.
Jacque's objective of conducting a complete
reassessment and redesign of our entire culture
remains the central focus of his work.
With The Venus Project, he has created an
environment conducive to creativity and innovation.
When people come here, they're amazed to hear that this was just a flat tomato patch.
We've dug out streams and ponds and
planted hundreds of palm trees and trees
and we built this land to show what the outskirts of a city would be like.
We have many buildings here, but you can't see one building when you're in another.
We really wanted to show how high tech and
nature could coexist within this environment.
Jacque and Roxanne have been living on the property
and building The Venus Project since the late 1970's.
The entire time has been a constant process
of developing and implementing new ideas.
Jacque begins with a drawing, then produces a scale model and then videotapes his models
in order to demonstrate his concepts for the future.
Although Venus, Florida is relatively isolated,
visitors often make the journey to see The Venus Project, and to meet Jacque.
Joan.
- Hi, Margaret. I'm not going to remember your names, but anyway...
- I'm Jacque. Hi. How are you? - Good to see you. How are you?
- Have a seat and then we'll go on with what this is about. Is everybody here?
So, there was a time when all... most people
believed that the decisions of a majority
majority was very close to reality.
But there was also a time when the majority of people believed the Earth was flat.
And if you asked them whether they were sincere they would say,
"Of course! You can see its flat!" So they'd break a sincerity meter.
But it isn't sincerity that the world needs.
It needs the intelligent management of the earth's resources.
This is what we don't have.
The major contribution the Future by Design would
like to provide is a method of coping with problems.
Now, you're brought up to believe, I believe this,
that everyone should have a right to their own opinion.
Is that the way you were brought up?
Yes sir.
OK. When you've got everybody going around giving their opinion,
"I'll tell you what's wrong with Jim," see, they've got all kinds of opinions.
But when engineers talk to each other, they don't say, "Believe me. "
They say, "See this new metal? It can hold up 4,000 pounds per square inch.
He puts it in a machine and pulls it apart. He says, "You're right. "
So, I would say the majority of the people
of the world today are un-sane. Not insane.
Un-sane, meaning having been exposed to methods
of evaluation that are long rendered obsolete.
Our language in the future will change to a
saner language where we have no argument in it.
You say, "Well, can there be such a language?" There is.
When engineers talk to each other, it's not subject to interpretation.
They use math, they use descriptive systems.
If I interpreted what another engineer said in the way I think he meant it,
you couldn't build bridges. You couldn't build dams.
You couldn't build power transmission lines. The language has to have meaning.
That's why when a doctor writes a prescription,
if he prints it, it's the same all over the world.
So the world I'm talking about is different.
There aren't too many people that have seen
everything that he's gone through in the past
and come out of it with a certain direction.
And the interesting thing is too that he's not a
philosopher that talks about how the world should be
his point of view.
He's a technician that understands how it can be built,
and has worked with people and understands what it takes to change them
and understands what it was that made them that way.
So it's really based on hands-on learning and not reading something in a book.
You know, he went through the experiences
himself, and came out with the conclusions he did
because it was based on actually learning experience and experiments.
When an engineer has an idea, he talks to the computer about his idea.
While they're talking about it,
the integrated computerized system will take the elements that they are speaking about,
convert the language into imagery and the
image will turn and be exposed
to all of the people watching that exhibit and presentation.
They will question the presentation but the image system will answer the questions,
how the buildings are fabricated, how water is supplied,
how it handles earthquakes, or any other question.
Instead of people sitting around asking an individual questions,
the answers are demonstrated inside of what appears to be a transparent dome.
So ideas are not just verbal.
Because when you talk verbally, it does not deliver enough information to people.
So a more comprehensive system of communication
is three-dimensional imaging always,
showing people what you've got in mind.
Not what they think you've got in mind.
Designed with a holographic computer, and built from prefabricated materials,
the home of the future will be far more than just a residence.
It will be an element of lifestyle, and will
facilitate learning, inspiration and communication.
One of the most interesting aspects of tomorrow's civilization,
will be the fact that if you knew anyone fairly well,
and went to visit him in a period of time of just a few years, their houses will change,
because the people living in them change.
Their needs and dimension of knowledge grows considerably
and so will the environment that they live in.
There's no such thing as a fixed home that a person lives in all their lives.
It changes with their values, with their outlook, with their acquired knowledge.
You had said one thing about how the
buildings were designed according to function.
Yes.
The curvature and the materials and the...
Yes. Compare it to natural physiology.
An animals shape is not designed from the
outside in, it evolves from the inside out.
Whatever you request, the exterior will express
a cover over the shape that you prefer to live in.
Some of the buildings that are dome-shaped can be laid like eggs continuously
by a machine that carries a dome shape, and in that dome,
the exterior and the interior are fabricated at the same time.
Not everyone will choose to live in a dome.
They will choose to live in whatever architectural shape would meet their needs.
The reason why we suggest a dome is it uses the minimum amount of materials
and covers the maximum areas and offers maximum strength.
So the dome shape is included in almost all of nature.
Your brain is in a dome, the cranial case is a dome.
So when a person says, "Yeah, I don't think I want to live in a dome. "
You've been living in a dome most of your life.
The interior building will have no source of light.
You won't be able to see a lamp or a source of light.
All the walls would evenly, would have even illumination.
You can also specify the color of the illumination.
Either the entire inner surface or local areas
of different colors if this is your request.
This would be the simplest type of bathroom,
shower, sink, toilet bowl molded into one system.
Actually, there's no hardware on here,
but there's a slot and the water comes out
as a ribbon and that'll cut the soap off the
hand and use about one sixth the amount of water.
Now the waste water from the sink goes down into
a pipe around here and fills the water closet,
and we flush the jon with that water.
So instead of telling people to save water, build the system in.
This is what it's all about if you wish to conserve water.
Now the bathrooms may vary from that simple
style to slightly more complex, but all one piece.
There may be as many as fifty variations on a bathroom,
you pick what you want and then it's installed.
When you leave the building, the entire building is cleaned.
We also have a slight increase in air - pressure in the building
so no dust comes in your house from the outside.
And if there's any contaminants in the air, it increases
the electrostatic charge which removes contaminants.
It would be a smart house because a house has its own nervous system.
This is what I'm saying.
In the future houses will have many sensory
devices to detect fire, toxic materials,
anything that may threaten the life of a human being.
Now if you walked in to the house of the
future, you might say, "Can I use your phone?"
They'll say, "What's a phone?" You just say, "I'd like to talk to Sam in Arabia. "
What part of Arabia... You just announce what you want
and the sound will be focused at some point
right at your ear so you can hear Sam in Arabia.
In southern Florida, millions of dollars in
buildings were destroyed by the big hurricane there
and they put up buildings that looked just about the same.
Now if you don't want hurricane damage, an inverted cone.
It's almost impossible for a whirlwind to pick up an inverted cone.
So we would have these shelters built in
the West Indies or wherever hurricanes occur,
and inside would be pull down bedding, food storage, and emergency water.
So this is the kind of form that no vortex or wind can pick up.
Try to pick this up with greasy fingers.
And that's similar to the wind, whirling around it.
For apartment buildings and other large structures,
Jacque has devised a cybernated construction system.
Computer controlled robots will handle 90% of the
movement and placement of prefabricated components.
Special advanced materials are to be developed, eliminating waste and minimizing
the need for manual labor.
Guided by satellite and using a
sophisticated form of artificial intelligence,
the buildings will construct themselves; a technique
Jacque has named "Self Erecting Structures. "
This represents a relatively complex aluminum extrusion.
If you were to take a toothpaste tube and cut the letter T in the opening,
and squeeze the toothpaste, it would come out like a letter T.
And this is how extrusions are made. However, in the future,
it may be possible to extrude complete apartment
houses, apartment building units or modules.
This extruder can be faced with different dies to mold different shapes;
almost an infinite variety of shapes can be extruded.
So it would be the apartment of your preference that's extruded.
So any shape, or almost any extruded shape can be
designed to fit many different architectural arrangements.
This is a transitional type structure, which utilizes
cranes to lift the components of the building.
Eventually, the building itself will be part of a self erecting structure.
Don't forget, all the models that I do are only transitional.
They don't represent the best that man can turn out
because no one knows what the future will bring.
There are just so many variables that can alter things.
So, the models that I make are all transitional
and many of them are only conceptual.
They're not necessarily what the future might look like.
They're only, well, let's say they're extrapolations.
Of taking the present and extrapolating forward.
But we can't go too far forward, because we
don't know what new things will come into being.
Now this looks like a train station.
We hope to phase out the airplane by designing transportation
units that can move up to two thousand miles an hour
floating on a magnetic repulsive field or an air cushion.
And in those huge trains of tomorrow, there'll be
television, radio, amusement, art centers, classrooms;
not a group of seats lined up as your trains are today.
If forty or fifty people have to leave the
train, we slow up to a hundred miles and hour,
lift off the passenger section, or slide it off, and
slide on a section with the passengers getting on.
You don't have to stop the whole plane, or the train.
In the future, we will just shove off those
passengers getting off and that freight leaving.
This is part of the linear acceleration train that
can take you anywhere in the world in just a few hours.
Safely without snow, rain, being lost at sea.
A monorail is one of the methods of transportation.
Some of them can be suspended by magnetic levitation
others can use wheels and ride the rails.
This is an aerial perspective of a monorail station.
With entrance and exits on the side of the highway.
This is actually a true monorail because it
is one rail system that supports two trains.
Most monorails aren't really monorails, they consist of two tracks.
This is accomplished on one track.
The vehicles of the future will be highly aerodynamic in shape.
Their shape will permit the minimum amount of skin resistance
giving you the maximum distance for minimum fuel consumption.
The front end of the car will be equipped with radar or sonar or other sensory devices
that can detect the distance you are from other
vehicles and maintain that separation automatically.
In other words, on a highway, or anywhere were two cars might hit each other,
the electronic sensors would sense the distance
automatically and keep the cars from sideswiping
or making contact at all.
Now even if they did impinge a slight dent in the
car, the car will be made up of the memory materials,
shape memory alloys, that go back to their
original shape, even when dented.
I'm going to take this metal called Nitinol.
This wire or spring is wound around a mandrel and
heated to a specific temperature and held until it cools.
Then, when you pull it out beyond its elastic limit,
so it's not about to return because of spring-shape,
and then deform it in many different ways.
Then if it's heated, I'll put it on this form so it won't drift away,
and I'm going to heat that metal, you
can watch it return to its original shape.
It's called shape memory alloys.
It could be done in plastics, metals or any other
materials in the future. Watch how it returns.
And even if an area of the car were removed,
they can be rebuilt,
in other words, automatically by the car having a memory system of its configuration.
Just like the human body.
Just like perhaps in lizards and salamanders
and certain types of organisms today
can regenerate parts of their body.
The technology of the future will enable our automotive
vehicles to repair and regenerate damaged areas.
This is a transport unit, or air-suspended unit.
It will travel five or four feet above the ground.
And not requiring highways or bridges.
You can turn around by electro-dynamic means,
discharging air on the right or left side.
Not by tunneled air pass but just by attracting air or repelling air.
I did this about 65 years ago.
This is what an automobile will look like in the future.
It'll have sensors on it.
So if I got mad at you, and when I get within a certain distance, the breaks go on.
If I'm backing up and there's a child crossing, the car stops.
No one drowns in a swimming pool because a net comes up when you're not home.
Is that clear? If somebody falls in the pool and you're busy cooking,
the child sinks to the bottom, touches it, and comes up right away.
What do you want? What kind of world do you want? Ok.
So, what you see here is just glimpses of the future.
So, we'll go 'round, look the place over, so you've got a better idea.
Now, that area over there - across the water
we will build a very large dome like a center
for dialogue, to invite different people out here.
This is a freighter with separate sections.
This freighter can deliver this to the Philippines, drop this off in Hawaii.
And so, when all the freight bays are released they
are propelled automatically to the loading docks.
And then there's the forward portion of the ship,
and the rear portion which is the propulsion unit, are
joined together so you always travel at a balanced load.
You never travel with an empty hull back.
So using energy that way conserves millions of gallons
of fuel if you use fuel in the conventional sense.
This is a possible propulsion method.
In this instance, water is drawn toward the surface of the ship electro dynamically.
And in turn, the ships reaction is forward, away from the pressure toward the rear.
It's like holding a peach pit and squeezing it and it moves forward.
It has far less wake, less water turbulence
and very little energy consumed.
What you see here is an illustration of underwater transportation for the future.
At the very leading edge, air-bubbles will
be emitted very rapidly in front of the unit
and that will cut down on the resistance considerably.
If you were to release thousands of air - bubbles underneath a ship, it would sink.
Because the water is less buoyant with the air-bubbles in it.
So the air-bubbles will be a system in the
future for reducing the forward resistance.
Transporting things under water is much more
economical and offers much less resistance.
When traveling on the surface, you're confronted with waves and wave motion.
Under water you don't have that problem at all.
We talk about civilization as though it's a static state.
And there are no civilized people yet. It's a process that's constantly going on.
We're not civilized, it's an ongoing process.
And so we never become fully civilized
because we'd have to know quite a bit in order
to behave in the most constructive manner.
And that goes for intelligence. I don't know if I've talked to you about
an electrical engineer of 75 years ago, an
intelligent one, couldn't get a job today.
So, when you talk of intelligence, what are you talking about?
It's an ongoing process.
It isn't, that's why there's not such thing as an intelligent person.
There are people who are fairly well informed
in area A & B, not informed in area C.
And so when you go on with a word like civilization,
it sounds like something that was attained.
As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime
- you're in the early stages of civilization,
what they call "civilization. "
This type of helicopter or aircraft would have
its propulsion unit at the tip of the blades.
They'd be relatively small, high thrust.
The center of the disc, or the passenger compartment
would remain stationary while the blades spun around.
In the event of engine failure, the blades can
automatically gyrate and bring the craft down.
Not only vertically, but can travel forward by tilting.
You will notice that there are no ailerons or elevators on this plane.
It's operated in a different manner also by ion propulsion.
Electron discharge is much lighter, much cheaper,
much safer, much faster and less energy consuming.
In the future, by controlling the airflow over wings and the direction of it,
the need for a rudder will be rendered obsolete.
For individual transportation or small groups,
you have the vertical landing and take-off,
VTOL aircraft of the future.
They are called lift-fuselage, that is, the body
itself generates the lift for this type aircraft.
And it is propelled electronically;
meaning particles are electrified and discharged from
the rear of the craft which propel the craft forward.
And for hovering, we then eject the same
propellant downward and generate a ring vortex,
a whirling vortex beneath the craft.
And the control of that vortex determines the speed downward.
We're going over to the model dome, where we have
models of future-type buildings and how they go together.
Here you have a city system. I put domes here, but
there will be many variations. In other words… Yes?
What are those?
These are research centers.
This is medicine, agronomy, population designing,
improvement of products, energy systems.
Energy in the future will be geothermal, most of it. You can get that from the Earth.
There's enough geothermal energy for thousands
of years, without worrying about anything.
And I'm not talking about solar, wind power,
or wave power, or tidal power all that is extra.
So, there's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington.
You can't make money from the sun.
What's that?
You can't make money from the sun.
No you can't. Exactly that.
Now, all these buildings can come apart and be recycled.
Now, if you follow me, we'll go to the future.
All right, let's uh, explore the thinking of
Jacque Fresco and the society he'd like to see.
Now, we'll start with this. And you tell me...
I'll try to point it out.
Yeah, you can point right at it.
Most of the cities are based on natural
configurations basic designs in nature.
The center of the city, the nucleus, will house an
electronic computer which only controls water purification,
the atmospheric conditions, that is it controls air-contamination systems.
They maintain safety, they oversee the environment, maintain
ecological balance between animal life and plant life.
The center of the city is a university. A
university that covers all subjects related to Man.
There's no courses that are used to
exploit or abuse any other human being.
All repetitious jobs will be phased out.
We feel that machines ought to do the filthy,
or the repetitious, or the boring jobs.
That man has to be free to pursue the higher
things, the higher possibilities of man.
So you came up with this idea for a round city...
A round city. A round governmental branch.
And then extending out of it would be the Department of
Agriculture, Education, Oceanography, the disciplines.
The circular scheme or plan brings each district closer to the central dome
which contains the medical, food, shopping, everything else that people need.
The circular, arrangement makes it easier to
operate using far less energy than any other system.
And if you start at one end of the city and go
through the city, you always return to the same place.
Whereas with a linear city, you go to one end,
you have to back-track to get to the same point.
So the circular scheme is by far the most efficient.
And when cities are contracted in the future, they
will be contracted as a whole, as an entire system.
In that way, all of the parts and the components would be delivered in stages.
Like sector one will be the underground; the
heating systems, the electric generators,
piping systems, the recycling systems.
Then after that, the next layer which would serve
as the first layer that contains the architecture,
the foundations for all the buildings.
And after that, the erection of structures up from the
foundations, starting with the central portion of the city,
working its way out to the different radial
sectors and then out to the final housing sectors,
and then, to the agricultural belt, and then to the recreation areas.
The cities themselves are prefabricated.
Most of the elements that comprise the structures
of the cities are interchangeable, interlocking;
they are designed so they can be disassembled just as they were assembled.
So the new cities will be up-dated continuously.
As the waters are piped into the cities, they are
checked and to whatever extent contamination exists
the water processing plants evaporate the water, re-condense it and cleanse it.
In other words, all waters piped into the city will be monitored constantly.
Not by a monitoring system, but several monitoring systems.
The same is true of the air above and around
the city. It's constantly monitored.
All of the roof-tops are photovoltaic.
All of the skin, outer skin of the building,
converts solar-radiation into electrical energy.
As we move beyond the third sector, we come to tennis courts, parks.
Beyond that is a residential district, which consists of lakes, waterfalls
- all kinds of beautiful plants throughout the area.
And each house is concealed by plants, so you can't see another building.
Some people prefer, as in the next sector, to live in apartment houses.
The apartments have drama groups, recreation, swimming
pools, discussion groups and so many other facilities.
The disadvantage of living in a private home
is you would have to go to the various places
to access the same things.
Instead of motor vehicles in the city, all
transportation is carried on by circular conveyors,
that we call, Trans-veyors.
They move radially, circumferentially, and vertically.
They serve the function of elevators, buses, conveyors.
But if you wish to go to another city, you can
take an elevator down beneath the central dome,
which has Mag-lev trains, etc., that will transport
you to the center of any other city or any other region.
There will be no waste products, just as in nature there are no waste products.
All materials that we would formerly call waste
would be recycled and converted into new products.
And when the City hits a certain number of people, we stop the development
and let everything go back to nature between this and the next city.
It doesn't mean that we can solve all the problems.
We can just design and build a far better
environment to advance all human beings.
Like I said, not everybody will live in a
dome. This is different types of architecture.
This may be a vacation house. I don't know,
like I say, what people will choose to live in.
But that would be up to each individual. What
we want to do is then build cities in the sea.
You pick the city you want to live in. Some of these cities are for ocean mining.
The oceans have Tungsten, Manganese, Phosphorous,
all kinds of chemicals that we may need,
and they're made available to all people.
And you don't have to worry about being blind in the future.
We design cities so you can hear an open door, and you
can sense a table, because you have built in sensors.
And we work on making artificial methods for visual,
for everybody because anybody can loose their eyesight.
There's no more nickels and dimes for medical research.
This is what the army of the future is all about. Do you get it? OK.
There's usually an alligator sleeping down here, let me see...
Are you betting that people will not declare war on
each other so that you can get at building all of this?
Well, we don't have much choice. We're going to
destroy each other, or we're going to make it.
Now, this looks like some sort of submerged stadium with something...
We might build circular cities in the sea, where
the water is about thirty, thirty-five feet deep.
Most of the apartment houses will open out into the sea.
You can observe marine life, and fish swimming by.
There'll be no zoos, no seaquariums, everything
will be observed in natural conditions.
There will be boating, scuba-diving,
recreation, universities built in the sea.
These drawings, all made by you?
Yes.
This represents a blueprint of the basic structure of the city in the sea.
There are helicopter landing areas on the upper section, there are
cranes that travel around the entire upper portion of the structure.
The legs are designed to move up and down to
support the structure that rests on the sea-bed.
Now, what are these cities in the sea for?
Some of them represent hospitals that can be towed off the coast of Africa or India,
instead of sending building materials out there and
building a hospital, then shipping the equipment out there,
it's much easier to build a floating hospital, tow it off the coast of Africa,
use it and by the time the new hospitals are assembled there,
you can then move this to another region. Float it to another region.
Most of the cities will be constructed in
dry-docks, by automated systems.
After it's complete the flood locks are opened, and it fills with water.
And there are units that look like tugboats that deliver
the cities to their site where they will be located.
Some will house as many as a million people
a series of cities in close proximity joined together by transport systems.
That is, tunnels either under the water or above the water bridges.
This is an aerial view of one of the many
variations of cities in the sea.
The towers are used for residential occupation;
the docks surrounding the cities are used
for marine exploration and redevelopment.
other words, to restore the reefs, the damaged reefs.
The unit in the center is used for hydroponic
gardens, growing of food without soil.
Now many of the cities of the sea will have docking facilities for marine vehicles.
And there would be like an underwater bus that would
take people around to visit the different areas.
You'll be able to get a very good picture of the ocean and
how we harness it, and use it, and preserve it and protect it.
So that future generations might enjoy the oceans also.
This projects above one of the cities under the sea with an
observation platform and a landing platform on the upper deck.
At sea level there'll be a floating dock system that
moves with the tide, up and down, so boats can dock.
Then you enter an elevator shaft which goes to an air-lock
that takes you to the bottom of the sea or the seabed.
The seabed is used for observation of reefs and marine life.
Not only do they monitor the reefs, they restore the
reefs and change them, rebuild them or redesign them.
Someday we'll be able to control the shape, configuration
of reefs so they can support more marine life.
I think humans can add to nature and improve it considerably.
What will that mean? It will mean a higher
standard of living for all people.
When he draws these buildings and designs, he thinks about how they go together
how they're manufactured.
Some of the drawings I have seen have gone back about 60 years
and they're just beginning to talk about some
of these things now as being a possibility.
You know, in the past, people would say, "You'd never
be able to get to the moon, not in a thousand years. "
And they'd look up the next day and they're going to the moon.
You know, when I first met Jacque 25 years ago and
he would talk to some people about certain inventions,
they'd say, "You won't see that - not in a thousand years. "
And ten years later, they come out with it
on the cover of popular science.
The whole basis of the technology is to maintain a high standard of living.
Technology is not worth anything unless it improves people's lives.
Today, people are afraid of science and technology
because it's so abusive today in so many ways.
But it's not science and it's not the technology we should
be wary of, it's the abuse and the misuse of science.
You can take a rocket and you can shoot it into outer space and explore outer space.
Or you can take it and use it as a bomb and destroy another country.
It's really... the inanimate object really
is in our hands, and what we do with it.
Science is really the ability to predict the next most probable.
That's what the real meaning of science is: gaining
the ability to predict the next most probable.
When we talk about science, we talk about a method of looking at a situation.
A method of evaluation that differs from the opinionated system,
"If you ask me, I'll tell you!" The scientific
method has no special connection to truth.
It merely has a better way of looking at things than the earlier
systems in which everything was attributed to Gods or Demons.
This is where we get into applying the scientific method to society.
Yes. Now this is not in a book yet, the scientific method
applied to society is something people don't think about much.
But if you want to know, where the answers may lie,
it is in the application of the methods of science
with human concern and environmental concern.
The Future by Design refers to the application
of the methods of science, not scientists,
the methods of science to the social system.
Naturally, even the methods of science undergo
change. And as they change, so would the future.
If we use the scientific method throughout the
world, the probability of war drops to ZERO.
The probability of human suffering disappears.
Deprivation, poverty, crime, all those things
tend to disappear because there's no basis for it.
Jacque spent a lot of time before studying
people; he started studying how animals behaved
and how to change the behavior of animals or to predict the behavior of animals.
And came to the conclusion that it's really the environment
that changes behavior and enables us to behave the way we do.
We're not born with prejudice and bigotry and anger and greed,
it's really generated and nurtured by the environment that we live in.
That's why we feel that unless you change your environment and change the experiences,
we'll get the same aberrant behavior within
people unless the environment is changed.
Any culture in the world today, tries to educate people
so they'll serve a function in that particular culture.
In other words, if you're brought up in a Nazi culture,
the flag waving and the swastika, are the kind of things they put forth.
If you're brought up in, in a primitive tribe,
handling the javelin and the bow and arrow would
be the kind of thing that you're exposed to.
So people are conditioned to serve the interest of an established culture.
Who does that to us? The owners of the institutions, the Establishment.
So they give us a value system that would support existing structures.
Whether it be religious, non-religious, industrial, military.
When children say, "You know Daddy, what's the greatest country in the world?"
Of course our country is the greatest country in the world.
"Which god is the right god Daddy?" Our God, all the other gods are false gods.
So picture this, a Roman family taking its kids
to see the Christians being fed to the lions.
And the kids are watching. "Dad, can we come next
week to see Christians being fed to the lions?"
Are these kids sick? No! Their value system is distorted.
So, I'm strictly concerned with the environment
that people are reared in, raised in.
And if that environment is altered, so will behavior be altered.
You re-orient the environment, that in turn re-orients people.
But if you re-orient people without touching
the environment, it'll slip back.
So when you try to think about the future remember this,
the process with which you think about things is based
upon indoctrination, what you're given by your society.
So your range of thought is limited by the dominant values of your society.
So, learning to be flexible in values takes a long time.
And in talking to kids, when I was very young,
I had to be very patient with them if I were to make any progress.
I talked about the concept of God. Your concept
of God, my concept of God, his concept of God.
So different, I wonder what God is really like or if there is a God for that matter.
And why would God permit war and disease if He's all loving.
It didn't make sense to me, too many clashes so I questioned that.
Of course, I felt a little uncomfortable
during questioning the concept of God.
But then, reading about the history and evolution of gods.
There were many different gods, the God of War, the God of Peace, the God of Love,
which was more like the people that invented them.
They behaved... they got angry, they made sacrifices, they created
floods when they didn't like the way that things were going.
And this did not come through as superior intelligence.
Primitive people, going back in time, when they saw lightening
they thought that the Deity was angry, why else would that occur?
When a hurricane swept the land they got rid
of certain people in their tribe as a sacrifice
hoping that the gods would not produce a second hurricane.
However, if it did occur again, then they'd sacrifice some of the younger people.
Rarely would the Chief sacrifice himself, but he's
always got a whole line of people ready to sacrifice.
So you have that problem with human beings.
Anything that occurs beyond their
comprehension they have to invent an excuse for.
They have to create gods and demons to account for things
because people come to the leadership of that community.
No matter how primitive the tribe. They say,
"How come bad wind blow people off island?"
The guy says, "You not behave good, you not make enough contribution to volcano.
Throw your brother-in-law into volcano. Maybe it doesn't erupt then. "
So if you throw your brother-in-law into the volcano and
it still erupts, you have to throw your sister-in-law in.
So you get metaphysics, you get religion; you get
superstition, knock wood, or your wear a rabbit's foot.
Just remember that the rabbit had four of them, didn't do him any good.
So on down the line, superstition prevails
wherever ignorance prevails.
Myth is a way of saying to the little guy
working out there in the field, when he says,
"What does all this amount to, I never seem to be getting anywhere?"
When you kick the bucket, everything is there for you.
If you don't get it in this life, you'll get it in the next life if you remain good.
The amount of superstition that a culture can absorb would be
directly proportionate to the amount of information people have.
So in the future, with adequate supply of
information, more than that which is given today,
considerably more, you don't have, "Knock wood,
today's my lucky day. When your numbers up, its up. "
All that will disappear in the future.
I look at this as everything he's doing
as being the utmost in spirituality.
Instead of looking for a better world later after you die;
it's really building the type of things that
all religious teachings talk about here on Earth.
We don't have to wait till we die for that.
We can confront our problems today and not wait for
the Messiah to come with a white robe and change things
or not wait till we go to heaven at a certain time,
or those believers that go to heaven at a certain time.
We can deal with the problems today.
For instance, in religion, they put things on the "will of God. "
If there's an accident, it's the "will of God,"
and it stops you from thinking, it stops you from being innovative.
It stops you from thinking about,
"Well, how do we redesign the transportation
system so we don't have those problems anymore. "
So he's worked with priests and he's worked with religious people
and kind of expand their horizons a bit so they can be more creative.
They look at the environment that shapes people's
behavior and they don't call them good or bad anymore,
they think about shaping the environment to
get more constructive behavior.
If you were to ask me to redesign the world and
the way people live, first thing I would have to do
is conduct a survey - find out what we have.
How much water we have, how many... how much people, how much arable land area.
After I know that, then I can base the
parameters of the design on what we have.
What you really need is an understanding of the Earth's resources,
by agronomists, geologists, geophysicists - people who study the Earth.
They don't give you there opinion, they
say, "There's more life in the Antarctic... "
That's not an opinion, that's a finding. So in the future, no more opinions.
"You have information in this area?" "No, I don't"
"Good, here's where you might get it. " Or,
"Here's how you might go about finding out. "
So, I'm saying all people need clean air, clean water,
arable land, and a good relationship, a language.
So, I'm not superimposing "Fresco's concepts.
" I'm using the earth as the measure.
In other words, we have to live in accordance
with the carrying capacity of the Earth.
Does that make sense?
Yes sir, it does. I keep wondering about how drastic a social change this is,
and how totally different the world would be and, yeah, how do you get...
From here to there? - ... people to accept it, yeah.
OK, here's how we do it.
Eventually, all decision making will be transferred to machines.
First, people say, "Well, now, I don't know that I'd like machines making decisions. "
First of all, that's what a scale does.
If you go to a butcher shop, the butcher says the chicken weighs six pounds.
Since you're buying it, you say, "That doesn't look like six pounds to me,"
so you grab it and say, "I think it weighs about
four," because you're tense, so it seems to weigh less.
Then the scale came along and we assigned decision making to the scale. Is that right?
So do pilots. When they fly they don't say, "I think I'm a mile and a half high. "
They look at an instrument and it tells them they're 4,203 feet off the ground.
So, that is decision made by a machine.
Because the decision making by machine is far more accurate.
Now the question normal people ask is, "Yes, but
can the machine be smarter than the designer?"
Well, I know a little guy that designed a
machine to pick up a freight train and empty it.
Now, he can't do that. Machines are always faster than the designer.
You ever see a coke bottle machine move on the
line? The designer, he can't move those bottles.
So, what is happening in our society is we are automating
more and more decision making and assigning it to machines.
Picture a department of agriculture as a setup of
computers with electrical wiring into the soil, like that.
So if the water table drops, that pumps water out
there. If the nutrients change, it pumps nutrients.
You don't need a guy out there saying,
"Mr. President, we have a drought out here. "
And the President says, "How bad is it?"
"Well, there're 5,000 homeless, and in the
next three days, there'll be 15,000 homeless. "
So the President says, "Mmmm. " So he flies
over. He says, "Yes you do have a draught. "
So what! When you connect up the country, all the
computers, the production, distribution, agriculture,
you have a nervous system which maintains dynamic equilibrium in production
and distribution of goods and services without money.
The government is right above your head there, if you can turn around and see it.
It looks like a globe. That globe there makes
all the decisions because it's connected.
We have satellites around the Earth that project
a hologram-a virtual image of the Earth
so you're looking at the real Earth, in real time.
So, you walk over to the image screens and you talk. You
say, "How many planes are there in the air at this instant?"
The computer will hit a laser spot all over the world and tell you, "7,320."
Every plane in the air, every hurricane, all the
conditions all over the Earth, plant diseases.
No human can do that. So, we don't need people in government.
We need electronics in the fields, production,
distribution, weather, so we can look,
come at home and find out anything we want
to know without opinions based on folksy ways.
The Future by Design is a self-regulated society
governed by a cybernated system of supply and demand.
Political systems are replaced by tabulating the
input of information from the general population,
and delivering goods and services accordingly.
The economic system is similarly based upon the use of all
available resources in meeting the needs of the entire culture.
When there's a depression, or a dip in the economy
and a lot of people don't have money to buy things,
there are still goods out there. There's still the ability to produce them.
There's still the resources, there's still the
farms and people want to work and make things,
but they don't have the money. They can't buy things.
So there's something terribly wrong out there.
We have a great deal of the Earth's population
starving and suffering, and the resources are there,
our ability to produce is there, our ingenuity is there,
yet some people have a lot and others don't have anything.
And today, that's really shameful with our technology.
It's really very, very abusive and absurd because
we have all the technology today to produce abundance
all over the world for everyone.
People always ask, "How much will it cost to put up these new cities?"
Do we have the resources to do it? That's the question, not how much does it cost.
That's the old question, during the monetary system.
Money is an invention of convenience for purchasing
goods and services in a scarcity environment
If there's a scarcity say, of water, it is prized and its price is high.
If we find an abundance, suddenly the earth opens up
and an abundant supply of fresh water fills every ravine,
then nobody cares.
There's only a policeman in front of something
that people have need for, and don't have access to.
So you put a guard there.
But if lemon trees, or orange trees, and apple
trees grew all over the place, you couldn't sell it.
Imagine if you will, if you can, an island of ten thousand
people with 10-billion dollars on the island available.
No resources, no arable land, no water, no fish, you have nothing.
So what is the real value in the future? Resources.
Now in a non-monetary based society, a resource based
society; people have access to anything that they need.
Somewhat like the public library.
They can go down and access a camera, or a bicycle or a wrist-watch,
anything that they need is available without a price-tag.
That would mean we must achieve a level of production
that's so high, that scarcity no longer exists.
Many people wonder what would drive people if they have
access to all their needs, what would happen to incentive?
What will motivate people? Or, something gained. What's the gain?
Although the gain is that materials are available, what
will motivate them on to do better than what they have?
Need. We will always lack and the fact that we will
always lack, meaning that we cannot achieve perfection,
we can not achieve truly dynamic equilibrium.
We will always be in some form of disequilibrium.
With the elimination of scarcity, the essential
incentives change towards problem solving, in general.
When Nations or groups of people do not have access
to resources, their behavior is difficult to manage.
It becomes aberrant, they loose their mental equilibrium,
they cannot arrive at appropriate conclusions.
people are free mentally of debt, obligation, servitude,
then they can seek new horizons that
they've never even dreamt possible before.
The core mechanism of democratic process in The
Future by Design is the use of public exhibition halls.
With the exhibition hall, everyone has the opportunity
to participate in establishing the priorities
with which the society is governed.
They're just like a world's fair - to show you what's new, what is available.
You look around and say, "Hey, I'd like one of those. "
Or, "I can use that sort of thing in my kitchen. " Whatever it is.
And then they always invite comment. If something
new comes up, "What do you think about it?
Do you feel it's sufficient, do you feel there's shortcomings? "
Enter into your computer your point of view
regarding this. So you have a built-in democracy.
You have a participatory culture where all people
participate and that is an a constant process
so that people will know up to the minute what is coming
out, what exists, what is available, what is not available
In other words there would be many bulletins and many publications and visualizations
of what is needed so all of the world's people will be
informed constantly of what we don't know, what is needed badly.
And, asking for suggestions and papers and ideas from everybody.
I just want to say this to you.
That all the marvels and wonders of technology can amount to
nothing unless it elevates humans to their highest potential.
This is the aim of The Future by Design.
Jacque continues to invent, every day, to invent, to write, to work.
He has, he has a zest for life that keeps him going
and keeps him working and he's interested in things,
he's interested in what happens out there and
how this will play out and how it'll turn out,
while very much wanting to introduce this direction to the world.
So that's his prime focus. And he does that in every way he can by actually showing.
It's not enough to just tell what the future will
be like, but just to show what people are missing.
He keeps coming up with new ideas, new inventions, new designs,
improves what he has, represents them
better, makes more models, makes more videos.
He's relentless at trying to get these ideas
out. I think he fears where society is now.
It's not acceptable to him. But instead of just
complaining, he wants to propose an alternative.
When people say, "Are you trying to build a perfect society?"
I have no notions of a perfect society. I don't know what that means.
I know we can do much better than what we've got. I'm no utopian;
I'm not a humanist who would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony.
I know that if we don't live that way we'll kill each other and destroy the earth.
We're a crude form of life right now, in the evolutionary stages.
Our civilization, really we're not even civilized yet.
So after the world joins together and we are through
with military systems, prisons, torture, hunger poverty,
deprivation, when that is gone, that'll be the beginning of the civilized world.
We are not there yet.
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