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  • The entire money-structured and materialistic-oriented society

  • is a false society.

  • Our society will go down in history as the lowest development in man.

  • We have the brains, the know-how, the technology

  • and the feasibility to build an entirely new civilization.

  • (Jacque Fresco) It was living through the 1929 Great Depression

  • that helped shape my social conscience.

  • During this time, I realized the Earth was still the same place:

  • manufacturing plants were still intact and resources were still there

  • but people didn't have the money to buy the products.

  • I felt that the rules of the game we play by

  • were obsolete and insufficient.

  • Misery, suffering and war provided the incentive for my life's work.

  • I was also motivated by the seeming incompetence of governments

  • the academic world, and the lack of solutions offered by scientists.

  • I realized that instead of working with individuals

  • a more effective method would be to redesign the culture.

  • This began a lifelong quest to finding solutions

  • to the many problems that we have today.

  • (Narrator) This presentation is a feasible plan for social change

  • that works toward a peaceful and sustainable global civilization

  • where human beings, technology and nature coexist.

  • It outlines an alternative to strive for

  • where human rights are not only paper proclamations

  • but a way of life.

  • It is called The Venus Project.

  • Its founder, Jacque Fresco

  • calls for a straightforward redesign of the culture in which war

  • poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering

  • are viewed not only as avoidable but totally unacceptable.

  • It is becoming increasingly obvious that anything less

  • will simply result in a continuation of the same problems we face today.

  • The Venus Project's research center

  • constructed by Fresco and Roxanne Meadows

  • is located in Venus, Florida.

  • It addresses many of the root causes of our difficulties.

  • But what are the real origins of our problems?

  • At present, we are left with very few alternatives

  • since we are on a collision course of our own making.

  • Answers from yesterday are no longer relevant.

  • Considering the damage already done to the environment

  • we are rapidly approaching a point of no return

  • where nature will dictate the course.

  • Either we continue as we have

  • with outmoded social customs and habits of thought

  • thereby threatening our future

  • or, we apply a more appropriate set of values

  • relevant to a sustainable society

  • with more opportunity and freedoms.

  • Americans have been conditioned in their kind of society

  • to get a different kind of car next year

  • to buy a new television set, or a tape recorder.

  • We are radical as hell but our political and social institutions

  • have not changed and this is where we are stagnating:

  • because we always equate any new idea with communism or regimentation

  • because we have been brought up to fear that which is new.

  • (Narrator) None of the world's economic systems:

  • socialism, communism, fascism or the free enterprise system

  • have eliminated the problems of elitism, nationalism, racism

  • and most of all, scarcity.

  • These are all based primarily on economic disparity.

  • When money is used to regulate and distribute resources for profit

  • and people and nations are out for themselves

  • they will seek advantage at any cost.

  • They do this by maintaining a competitive edge

  • or through military intervention.

  • War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences.

  • From a strictly pragmatic standpoint

  • it is the most inefficient waste of lives and resources ever conceived.

  • Most wars are for the control of resources

  • and maintaining your position of differential advantage.

  • They're not based on the 'dignity of man.'

  • They're not based on elevating human beings.

  • It might elevate the human beings in the country that's the victor.

  • It might do that. But as far as the rest of the world goes

  • the price is enormous.

  • (Narrator) This crude and violent attempt to resolve international differences

  • takes on even more ominous overtones

  • with the advent of computerized nuclear delivery systems

  • and deadly biological and chemical weapons.

  • Yet it is a windfall, money-making opportunity

  • for those who profit by the military-industrial complex.

  • If the profit were taken out of wars

  • do you really believe we would have them?

  • (Jacque Fresco) If they draft you into the army to serve this country

  • (you put up your life for this country)

  • they should draft all the war industries:

  • every cannon maker, machine gun maker

  • automobiles, jeeps, warships

  • all drafted, so they're on the same basis of pay as the army.

  • Then it's real. But if you make millions selling warships

  • and machine guns to the army, then it's corrupt.

  • I would (if I had my way), if we had millions of men in the army

  • I'd send them to school to become problem solvers

  • how to get along with other nations. That's what we have to do, not kill.

  • Soldiers are just killing machines; they're trained to kill.

  • I would train them to be able to go to Mexico and bridge the difference

  • and go to the Arab world and see if they can bridge the difference.

  • So bring them all together, all the nations.

  • (Narrator) War is not the only form of violence imposed upon people.

  • There is also hunger, poverty

  • homelessness and unemployment.

  • The acceptance of these conditions as expressive of 'human nature' is a myth

  • used to keep things as they are.

  • Genetics has nothing to do with greed, business, race prejudice.

  • All of the operant systems in any society are part of your education

  • the books you read, the role models you follow and the people you admire.

  • The genes have nothing to do...

  • except with the color of your eyes, the shape of your nose

  • perhaps inherited features.

  • The genes do not control values.

  • Even if you're born with a much better brain than another person

  • meaning better receptors, the quality of the tissue is better

  • I would say that if you have a better brain

  • and you live in a fascist country you become a fascist faster.

  • The brain has no mechanism of discrimination.

  • The brain can't tell you what is relevant or less relevant

  • except experience.

  • (Narrator) We are not born with greed, envy, hatred, or bigotry.

  • Our behavior and values are reflective of the culture we are exposed to.

  • If you were raised by the headhunters of the Amazon

  • you'd be a headhunter.

  • If I said to you "Doesn't it bother you to have 5 shrunken heads?"

  • you'd say "Yes, my brother has 20."

  • Is he nuts? No, that's normal to his culture.

  • Social and environmental problems will remain insurmountable

  • as long as few nations control most of the Earth's resources

  • and the bottom line is profit over the well-being of people.

  • Putting profit first results in unnecessary suffering

  • and aberrant behavior prevalent today.

  • Many people feel that we need the rule of law to eliminate our problems.

  • We have many laws, thousands upon thousands of them

  • but they are constantly being broken.

  • Paper proclamations and treaties do not alter the facts of scarcity

  • deprivation, and insecurity.

  • You can predict the shape of the future and the values if you know

  • the trends of events in the ocean pollution, the scarcity of arable land...

  • If you watch that degrading system grow

  • I can predict the riots and killing and assassination.

  • Human behavior is really generated by the surrounding environment.

  • If there's a scarcity, say of water, it is prized and its price is high.

  • Let's discuss scarcity as a system.

  • Suppose it rained gold for about 3 days, gold dust.

  • People would go out and shovel it in, fill their cellars

  • the attic, every drawer in the house. They'd throw out their clothing.

  • If the rain kept up for a year so that gold was all over the place

  • people would sweep it out of the house, take their rings off, throw them away

  • and so human behavior undergoes change to that condition.

  • 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.

  • If you landed on an island that was so abundant with resources

  • you had 10 people, there were 1000 fish for every person if you wanted it,

  • there were 10 times the amount of breadfruit and bananas

  • money would not come into existence.

  • Private property would not come into existence.

  • If the island was big enough: there were 10 people, there were 8000 acres

  • no one would give a damn about staking out this particular area.

  • There are patterns of behavior that promote survival.

  • There are social conditions that change our values and outlook.

  • No one can write a constitution of required behavior

  • without consulting the environment.

  • So, we'd better take care of the environment

  • we'd better take care of one another and we'd better educate people

  • to the highest possible levels of our ability

  • in order to have a society.

  • (Narrator) Even a peace treaty cannot prevent another war

  • if the underlying causes are not dealt with.

  • Maybe what are needed are ethical people in government

  • who will work toward everyone's well-being.

  • But even if the most ethical people were elected to high positions

  • and we ran out of resources, there would still be lying

  • cheating, stealing and corruption.

  • It's not ethical people that are needed but rather

  • a way of intelligently managing the Earth's resources for everyone's well-being.

  • Let's examine our social arrangements further.

  • To maintain our economy, products must continuously be sold.

  • To assure this, they are deliberately designed to wear out and break down.

  • Maybe you've noticed this usually happens

  • right after the warranty expires.

  • This corrupt practice is referred to as 'planned obsolescence'

  • which is the conscious withdrawal of efficiency.

  • Innovators go through the finest schools and then are required

  • to design things that wear out and break down right on schedule.

  • This results in a tremendous waste of resources and energy.

  • We are plundering the planet for profits.

  • If you think about it, it isn't a job people want

  • but access to what their paycheck will bring.

  • Money does not represent anything real

  • and there's no gold, silver or resource to back it up.

  • You can't eat money or build a house of it.

  • It is not even related to our real capacity

  • to produce goods and services on this planet.

  • The monetary system has been handed down from centuries ago

  • and we continue to use it without questions.

  • This system will keep installing more and more automation

  • cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people.

  • There will come a time (it's called the Gaussian curve)

  • where employment is that, production is this

  • and purchasing power is that. The system stops.

  • Banks fail and nothing works anymore.

  • We're moving in that direction very rapidly.

  • - We have finally gotten to a place in 2011

  • where it's becoming obvious that the machine has beaten the man.

  • - We are incredibly productive with far fewer people.

  • - We are more productive as an economy than ever before.

  • - An iPad app can do more than four people.

  • - It's just that there are fewer jobs. The jobs that do exist now

  • can have lower wages because of obvious reasons:

  • a lot of people are looking for a small number of jobs.

  • The wages go down, that has huge impacts on the middle class

  • and ripples out from there.

  • We're moving towards social collapse.

  • I think this is going to happen all over the world, not just here.

  • It doesn't require the overthrow of the government.

  • It just requires that you let it alone; it will overthrow itself.

  • If you control the media, you can calm people down.

  • But if the majority keeps getting laid off, they don't have purchasing power

  • the system collapses. It doesn't work anymore; they invade.

  • It's already happening, this country is already insoluble.

  • They're going to have difficulty with national security, paying pension people:

  • they've spent far beyond what they already have.

  • All they can do now is create debt, borrow more and more money from banks.

  • - We also want to show you a rather grim sign of our times

  • it's not far from here in Midtown Manhattan.

  • The national debt has grown too large for the National Debt Clock.

  • It went up back in 1989

  • when the nation's debt was less than 3 trillion dollars.

  • The debt has been piling up so fast lately they had to drop the dollar sign

  • to make room for an extra digit as the number turned over

  • to more than ten trillion dollars now and counting every second.

  • A whole new clock with two extra spaces will go up next year.

  • The federal government is not allowed to print money.

  • It's not allowed to lend money or get in the banking business.

  • That is a privilege for bankers only.

  • So what the government has to do if they want to build an air force

  • say of 2000 planes a month

  • they have to borrow money from a private lending institution

  • sign the dotted line, and if the war is lost or failed

  • the burden falls on the public to pay off that debt.

  • (Narrator) We find ourselves and our social constructs

  • in a transitional state, a matter of social evolution.

  • If we want to make it through these turbulent times

  • we must be able to adapt to change.

  • All things change, including our social systems.

  • Albert Einstein stated:

  • Earth is still abundant with resources.

  • Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control

  • is no longer relevant and is actually counterproductive to our very survival.

  • Today we have highly advanced technologies

  • but our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities

  • which could otherwise easily create a world of abundance for all

  • free of servitude and debt.

  • How can this be possible?

  • There is not enough money to feed or house all people on this planet

  • let alone accomplish these more ambitious ends.

  • But Earth has more than enough resources to meet the needs of all people

  • but only if managed intelligently.

  • (Narrator) Jacque Fresco envisions a solution that he calls

  • a Resource-Based Economy.

  • It is a socio-economic system in which all goods and services

  • are available to everyone without the use of money

  • barter, credit, debt or servitude of any kind.

  • It is unlike any social system that has gone before.

  • Fresco arrived at this direction through 75 years of study

  • and experimental research.

  • A Resource-Based Economy operates on the basis of available resources

  • and makes those resources available to every human being on earth

  • free of charge, without a price tag.

  • We have today more than enough resources

  • to build a far more advanced society.

  • I'm not talking about limited handouts so that people just get by.

  • I'm talking about a very advanced civilization.

  • We have the resources, we have the technology, all we have to do is apply it.

  • (Roxanne Meadows) One of the main aspects of The Venus Project

  • is to eliminate scarcity; this is where the technology comes into play.

  • Because if we set up a Resource-Based Economy

  • and some things are scarce, it won't work.

  • If you set up a Resource-Based Economy

  • in a society that has no resources, it won't work.

  • Today with our technology we can make things available.

  • We can eliminate scarcity, we can create an abundance.

  • As long as we can create that abundance, that will eliminate greed

  • and selfishness, and a lot of crime and a lot of aberrant behavior.

  • (Narrator) A social system can be designed

  • so that all can live fully and constructively

  • if the powers of science and technology are directed toward human and environmental concern

  • and overcoming the artificial scarcities of our debt-based monetary systems.

  • All people, regardless of political philosophy, social customs

  • or religious differences ultimately depend upon the same resources:

  • clean air and water

  • arable land

  • medical care and a relevant education.

  • I think if you pledge allegiance to the Earth and everyone on it

  • that'd be the way to go for the future.

  • (Narrator) The human species is a single family and the world is home to everyone.

  • Neither nations nor people can co-exist separately any longer.

  • No more separate nations, so that anyone can go anywhere.

  • Before the states joined together, they used to stake out their territory.

  • They used to fight, they had militias. They would fight:

  • "This is our territory!" "Oh no you're intruding!"

  • When all the states joined together, the government

  • worked out the lines of the states and they agreed.

  • That was the end of territorial disputes.

  • If you want the end of war, you must declare the Earth common heritage.

  • This has nothing to do with those who want to form an elite world order

  • with themselves and large corporations in control

  • and the rest of the world subservient to them.

  • On the contrary, a global Resource-Based Economy

  • enables all people to reach their highest potential

  • where they can thrive and grow in a society that works in their behalf

  • a society that protects and preserves the environment as well.

  • One that understands that we are part of nature, not separate from it.

  • (Narrator) Some question what would happen to incentive if needs were met

  • without our having to work to attain them.

  • The question assumes humans have no desires beyond basic needs.

  • If that were true, there would be no inventors

  • writers or teachers.

  • People work with passion on the things that interest and challenge them.

  • Let's enable all people to have the opportunity

  • to partake in the greatest challenge one can have:

  • improving our world for everyone.

  • Individuality will be emphasized rather than uniformity.

  • This social arrangement will generate a new incentive system

  • that values the protection of the environment and social concern

  • rather than the shallow self-centered goals

  • of wealth, property and power.

  • It does not call for uniformity. It absolutely calls for diversity:

  • the more diverse people are, the more individuality.

  • So we emphasize individuality, creativity, innovativeness.

  • This is the essentials of the design.

  • It is not a group of scientists telling people what to do

  • how to live, where to go, what to follow.

  • (Narrator) Motivation and incentive exist when people have meaningful tasks.

  • True growth and development occur when people are involved in creative

  • challenging and constructive endeavors.

  • However, motivation and incentive die in the daily grind

  • of boring and repetitive jobs required to earn a paycheck.

  • If you hand out things to people

  • if you fed them, clothed them and housed them for free

  • they're not going to work in the morning because they don't need it.

  • They've got their housing, clothing, motion pictures and entertainment.

  • Why go to work? Work is painful, it's monotonous, it's boring.

  • In the future, if people have access to all their needs

  • but they don't have any challenges, this is where it goes to pot.

  • So people constantly [will be] challenged by new things.

  • In our schools we challenge them with many things that are not solved

  • and [there are] many unresolved problems.

  • If you are well fed and well clothed, that doesn't stop your brain from working.

  • That would mean that every millionaire does nothing, it's turned off

  • because you've got all the means. That's not true.

  • There are many millionaires that work 18 hours a day

  • and don't have enough time. It has to do with your background

  • and your education. The more you know about oceanography, astronomy, etc.

  • the more interested, the more alive you are.

  • If you're just given food, clothing and shelter, now you can go to work.

  • You don't have to worry about making a living

  • and your incentive would be boosted considerably.

  • I call that a new and innovative incentive system:

  • it's not monetary oriented, it's problem-solving oriented.

  • You get your kicks out of seeing the world become a better place.

  • (Narrator) How can we use our technology wisely

  • so that there is more than enough for everyone?

  • To achieve this, it's mandatory that the planning for it

  • be based on the carrying capacity of the planet's resources.

  • Our entire infrastructure must be redesigned

  • and operated as coherent, integrated, total systems.

  • This means we must consider our entire global community as one unit

  • that includes everyone and plan accordingly.

  • Only in this way can we use our technology to overcome resource shortages

  • provide universal abundance and protect the environment.

  • Therefore, a global survey is first needed to assess exactly what we have.

  • This would inventory our physical resources, personnel

  • production centers and the needs of people.

  • This enables us to determine the amount of goods and services needed.

  • For instance, where is the arable land to grow crops?

  • How many people are in various locations

  • and what is the state of their health?

  • This would determine where hospitals are built and how many.

  • If you try to do that today

  • (ask for a global resource survey of all nations), they'd wonder

  • "What are you trying to do that for? To find if we've got enough resources

  • to fight you in armaments and other things?"

  • They would be skeptical, hesitant, to give that information.

  • So I would say it wouldn't work in today's culture.

  • But after the ideas are put forth and the reason for it

  • and the advantages gained by all the nations...

  • It would have to be specific advantages

  • that they can understand in their terms.

  • If they agree, then the survey would be conducted.

  • It's not my opinion or the opinion of anyone else that would be used.

  • It's the size of the population, the availability of resources

  • the carrying capacity of the Earth, that determines

  • what is done and how fast things move.

  • Today it's done on a totally different basis

  • but in the future it will all be based on

  • a form of dynamic equilibrium.

  • That means operating everything at the highest potential

  • without environmental neglect.

  • (Narrator) The key to achieving abundance and a high standard of living for all

  • is to automate as much as possible in the shortest period of time.

  • But during the transition, we have to bring together

  • the technological capabilities of people working with computers

  • and working with technology

  • and building and designing methods of delivering these resources

  • and the necessary industrial plants to process the resources.

  • (Narrator) Our problems and their solutions are technical, not political.

  • Most problems can be solved when technology and the methods of science

  • are used to serve all people, not just a select few.

  • What is it that you want? You have to ask yourself.

  • I want to live in a world where I don't have to fear

  • that my children will go into another war

  • where there will be deprivation, problems or disease.

  • "Do you know how to build that kind of world?" "No I don't!"

  • How do you go about building? You call upon the various divisions of science

  • bring them together and say "These are the problems we'd like to solve."

  • A scientific government doesn't mean that scientists rule or control people.

  • It means they have better means for building transportation systems

  • better means for cleaning the air, they have the best means

  • for restoring the oceans that we know of to this day.

  • (Narrator) Computers can serve the needs of everyone

  • when cybernation is ultimately integrated into all aspects

  • of this new and dynamic culture.

  • One can think of this as an electronic nervous system

  • extending into all areas of the social complex.

  • Their function would be to coordinate a balance between production and distribution

  • assuring there are no shortages or overruns.

  • (Roxanne Meadows) In this highly technical society

  • decisions are based on direct environmental

  • human and industrial feedback.

  • You can think of this as electrical sensors

  • throughout the entire environment

  • from cities, factories, warehouses

  • distribution centers, transportation networks

  • all over the globe gathering data for more appropriate decisions.

  • The decisions are based on the needs of society

  • rather than corporate or private interests.

  • (Narrator) It is not automated technology or machines we should be wary of

  • but the abuse and misuse of technology by selfish interests.

  • Remember, it is people who decide what ends the machines will serve.

  • If technology does not liberate all people

  • for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement

  • then all its technological potential will be meaningless.

  • You always do a positive and negative study

  • before you engage in the actual reconstruction of an environment.

  • (Narrator) It's all just talk unless there is a technical plan

  • to organize and use resources to accomplish abundance.

  • What follows are some of the many approaches The Venus Project provides

  • for the entire social spectrum.

  • Today more than half our population lives in cities that are polluted

  • dangerous and waste energy.

  • What we have to do is design a city as a living system

  • as an organism, as a university:

  • that all the cities of the future will be university cities

  • that grow, that continue to exchange ideas.

  • The city will have a built-in transportation system so there are no accidents

  • and no unthought out areas of technology.

  • Medicine, botany, agriculture, the total system: one planning system.

  • (Narrator) It is actually better to build newer cities from the ground up

  • than to restore and maintain old ones.

  • Fresco uses a systems approach to designing new cities.

  • They're desirable and pleasant places to live.

  • The notion that intelligent overall planning implies mass uniformity is absurd.

  • Cities would be uniform only to the degree that they would require far less materials

  • save time and energy

  • and be flexible enough to allow for innovative changes

  • while preserving the local ecology.

  • If we design our cities to meet human needs

  • you don't have most of the problems that are prevalent today.

  • In the central dome you have childcare

  • schools, dental care, medical care.

  • In the production and design of the cities

  • we work out 1/8th of the city system and then we reproduce it

  • instead of having architects design each building and each structure

  • which is a tremendous waste of energy and talent.

  • (Narrator) When working on solving the housing problem for all the world's people

  • construction techniques would be vastly different from those employed today.

  • Extruded and self-erecting structures could revolutionize

  • and speed up construction processes.

  • These lightweight, durable apartments could be produced as continuous extrusions

  • and then separated and positioned in place by the mega-machines.

  • The outer shells of these efficient structures serve as photovoltaic generators

  • and heat concentrators.

  • You don't own anything in this society.

  • Really, people don't want money;

  • they want access to things when they want it.

  • People in a society of abundance, having access to things

  • will really no longer begin to store and accumulate things.

  • We recycle it, update it, make it better.

  • Take the same materials of an old car

  • [they] weigh just as much as a new car, so there are no old cars.

  • Old cars mean danger.

  • If you drive a very expensive car and somebody else drives a beat-up old car

  • if their brakes fail, you may die.

  • We don't want any old cars on the highway.

  • We don't want anything that breaks down.

  • We don't want anything that takes looking after.

  • (Narrator) In a Resource-Based Economy, people may access whatever products they need

  • without the burden of having to purchase, maintain or insure their possessions.

  • In this way, there is much more to go around for everyone

  • and products are always available when needed.

  • Anything people may need is available in these outside access domes:

  • sculpturing materials, musical instruments,

  • somewhat like a public library.

  • They can go down and access a camera, a bicycle or a wristwatch.

  • Anything 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.

  • That will prevent almost all crime.

  • There is no way of segmenting or making this system just or equitable.

  • We have to make a system that assures human rights.

  • When everybody has free access to goods and services

  • you don't have to fight for women's rights, or black rights.

  • It's an automatic in a society that is set up that way.

  • You don't have to make laws [like] 'Don't steal'; it would bypass that behavior.

  • (Jacque Fresco) Surrounding the central dome, you have the research centers

  • centers that do work that's relevant

  • to the sustainability of the entire community.

  • As we move away from the research centers

  • we come to the recreational area

  • which has tennis courts and all of the games that people require.

  • As we move away from that we come to the residential district.

  • There are streams, waterfalls, lakes throughout the area.

  • (Narrator) We could provide a wide range of unique homes and apartments

  • that can be relatively maintenance free, fireproof

  • and virtually impervious to adverse weather conditions.

  • As we move to the next sector, we come to apartments.

  • The reason some people want to live in apartments

  • is because you have drama groups, you have gymnasiums

  • medical care, dental care; everything is built-in to the central towers.

  • I feel that in the future, people will move away from individual houses

  • and live in larger complexes.

  • As we move outward we come to the indoor agriculture

  • or hydroponic farms.

  • Then there is also outdoor agriculture.

  • (Narrator) The city would use the best of clean technology

  • in harmony with nature, such as wind, solar, geothermal

  • heat concentrators, piezoelectric, wave, temperature differentials

  • ocean thermal vents and much more.

  • A major development for generating energy in the future

  • could be the construction of a land bridge or tunnel across the Bering Strait.

  • These underwater structures convert a portion of the ocean currents

  • through turbines to generate clean sources of power.

  • By using these sources of energy we could power the earth on clean energy

  • and enable all people to enjoy a very high standard of living

  • for thousands of years to come.

  • There is no need for the use of polluting hydrocarbons any longer.

  • Pollution will be a thing of the past.

  • All transportation will be integrated into a worldwide transportation system.

  • Transportation within cities will be by transveyors.

  • City-to-city travel will be by monorail.

  • Maglev trains are utilized for long distance travel.

  • To enhance efficiency, this high-speed maglev train

  • is equipped with removable sections

  • which can be disengaged while the train is in motion.

  • Aircraft will display a wide range of configurations.

  • These VTOL aircraft (or Vertical Takeoff and Landing)

  • are used to transport passengers and freight.

  • The priority is safety rather than saving money

  • or dealing with the lowest bidder.

  • This modular freighter consists of detachable sections

  • that can be rapidly loaded or unloaded.

  • The number of sections varies depending on the amount of freight to be delivered.

  • When all the sections are connected they can be propelled as a single unit.

  • Ships can be floating manufacturing plants

  • that produce products while en route to their destinations.

  • They can also serve as education centers

  • where children and adults travel worldwide obtaining innovative education

  • not through vicarious study, but through experiencing

  • and interacting with the 'real-world' environment.

  • A national transportation system would include a network of waterways

  • canals and irrigation systems.

  • They could serve to minimize the threat of floods and droughts

  • while allowing for the migration of fish, provide natural firebreaks

  • emergency water sources, fish farms and recreation areas.

  • When we unleash science and technology

  • directly into the social system

  • without the restrictions of the market place, finances or patents

  • we could achieve a very high standard of living

  • within a very short period of time.

  • This society would continuously improve

  • changing rapidly through new technologies, inventions and ideas.

  • It would be an emergent society

  • rather than an established one like we have today.

  • (Narrator) Imagine living in an extraordinary oceanic city

  • helping to restore the ocean environment

  • while eliminating land-based population pressures.

  • These cities in the sea may serve as universities and research centers

  • where students study marine sciences.

  • They could be used for ocean farming, mariculture and mining

  • while maintaining a dynamic balance in the oceanographic environment.

  • Self-sufficient cities in the sea vary in design

  • depending on their location and function.

  • This undersea observation station permits people

  • to view marine life in its natural habitat.

  • These mariculture and sea-farming systems

  • cultivate and raise fish along with other forms of marine life

  • to help meet the nutritional needs of the world's people.

  • These structures would permit the free flow of water throughout.

  • Using technology in this way would make it possible for a global society

  • to achieve social advancement and worldwide reconstruction

  • in the shortest time possible.

  • Utopia, if it's ever established, will die, will stagnate.

  • Whereas what I'm talking about is an evolving culture

  • or an emergent culture.

  • 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

  • that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony.

  • [But] I know that if we don't live that way, we'll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

  • (Narrator) This new lifestyle, while providing leisure and recreation

  • would also enhance knowledge and creativity for everyone.

  • The measure of success would be the fulfillment of one's personal interests

  • rather than the acquisition of wealth and self-centered goals.

  • A Resource-Based Economy would not only change our environment

  • to make it clean, efficient and enjoyable

  • but it would introduce a new value system

  • appropriate to the direction and aims of the new innovative approach.

  • With education and resources made available

  • there would be no limit to the human potential.

  • Everyone will have the freedom to pursue

  • whatever constructive field of endeavor he or she chooses

  • without the economic limitations that we face today.

  • We are now at a time when decisions must be made

  • if we wish to evolve from our present culture of scarcity

  • waste and environmental destruction

  • to a sustainable society of ecological concern and abundance.

  • A nation without a vision of what the future can be

  • is bound to repeat past errors

  • over and over again.

  • We say dishonestly

  • that man is the highest form of evolution which [is what] you get in schools.

  • Man destroys the oceans, the fish, the atmosphere and one another.

  • Man flies over a city, presses a button

  • and burns everybody in the city with nuclear weapons.

  • Is he the highest creation of nature? Not yet!

  • in my opinion. We've got a long way to go.

  • We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion;

  • wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell.

  • It's what you do to make the future.

  • (Narrator) We can create a world where war and want are distant memories.

  • When all of science and technology are used

  • within a global resource-based economy

  • for the protection of the environment and the well-being of all

  • only then will we understand

  • what it means to be truly civilized.

  • Be a part of the growing community of people

  • working toward making the aims of The Venus Project a reality.

  • Join us in our efforts to bring this vision of a positive future

  • to a wider audience through the goal of a major motion picture.

  • All of these things can be built with what we know today.

  • It would take 10 years to change the surface of the Earth

  • to rebuild the world into a second Garden of Eden.

  • The choice lies with you. The stupidity of a nuclear arms race

  • the development of weapons, trying to solve your problems politically

  • by electing this political party or that political party...

  • ALL politics are immersed in corruption.

  • Let me say it again: Communism, Socialism

  • Fascism, the Democrats, the Liberals.

  • There are no Negro problems, Polish problems or Jewish problems

  • or Greek problems or women's problems. They're human problems!

The entire money-structured and materialistic-oriented society

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    王惟惟 に公開 2017 年 07 月 23 日
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