The Man Behind the Idea


Jacque Fresco was born on March 13, 1916. He is a self-educated structural designer, architectural designer, philosopher of science, concept artist, educator, and futurist. His has many interests that span a wide range of disciplines including several in philosophy, science, architecture and engineering. Fresco writes and lectures extensively on his view of subjects such as sustainable cities, energy efficiency, natural resource management, cybernated technology, advanced automation, and the role of science in society. He focused on the benefits he thinks they may bring.

His colleague, Roxanne Meadows, he became the founder and director of an organization known as The Venus Project, located in... wait for it...Venus, Florida. He currently promotes a fundamental change in anthropic organization through the global implementation of a novel socio-economic system predicated on social cooperation and scientific methodology, called a resource-based economy.

His vision is that human labor is no longer a factor contributing to the extraction-production-distribution process, nor does it serve in the operation of services. In place of the price mechanism, a resource-based economy utilizes cybernetics in place of human labor. Fresco's claim is that, theoretically, most if not all tasks that are performed by humans can be replaced by automated systems. If achieved and a organized infrastructure is created and linked with cybernetic systems, all resources can be thoroughly tracked through the process of extraction-production-distribution as long as it takes place within a closed system, such as Earth. Fresco further claims that this progression of technology, if it were carried on independently of its profitability, would make more resources available to more people by producing an abundance of products and materials.

Jacque Fresco