Jacque Fresco
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March 13, 1916 Brooklyn, New York |
| Residence | Florida |
| Occupation | Futurist,social engineer,structural engineer, architectural designer, industrial designer, author, lecturer |
| Known for | The Venus Project, resource-based economy ideas. |
| Notable work | Looking Forward (1969), The Best That Money Can't Buy (2002) |
| Website | www |
 Welcome to the Future on YouTube (1998) |
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Cities in the Sea on YouTube (2002) |
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Self-erecting Structures on YouTube (2002) |
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Designing the Future on YouTube (2006) |
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Paradise or Oblivion on YouTube (2012) |
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The Choice is Ours on YouTube (2016) Produced/Directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt |
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"THE VENUS PROJECT - A NEW WORLD SYSTEM | Full Documentary". 11 May 2016.
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Jacque Fresco (born March 13, 1916), is an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Fresco is self-taught and has worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design.
Fresco writes and lectures his views on sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural-resource management, cybernetic technology, automation, and the role of science in society. Fresco directs the Venus Project. Fresco advocates global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he refers to as a "resource-based economy."
Born March 13, 1916, Jacque Fresco grew up in a Sephardi Jewish home in Bensonhurst in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Fresco was a teenager during the Great Depression.
Fresco spent time with friends discussing Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, science, and the future. Fresco attended the Young Communist League. After a discussion with the league president during a meeting Fresco was 'physically ejected' after loudly stating that 'Karl Marx was wrong!' Fresco left home at the age of 14, hitchhiking and 'jumping' trains as one of the so-called "Wild Boys of the Road." Fresco later turned his attention to technocracy.
Fresco worked at Douglas Aircraft Company in California during the late 1930s. He presented designs including a flying wing and a disk-shaped aircraft. Some of his designs were considered impractical at the time and Fresco's design ideas were not adopted. Fresco resigned from Douglas because of design disagreements.
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