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The Venus Project

Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco and lemon tree.jpg
Born (1916-03-13) March 13, 1916 (age 101)
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.thevenusproject.com
External video
Welcome to the Future on YouTube (1998)
Cities in the Sea on YouTube (2002)
Self-erecting Structures on YouTube (2002)
Designing the Future on YouTube (2006)
Paradise or Oblivion on YouTube (2012)
The Choice is Ours on YouTube (2016) Produced/Directed by Roxanne Meadows and Joel Holt
"THE VENUS PROJECT - A NEW WORLD SYSTEM | Full Documentary". 11 May 2016. 

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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