1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,252 Hi, I'm Evan Hirsch. 2 00:00:04,486 --> 00:00:08,141 We are here in the state of Florida at the Venus Project to visit 3 00:00:08,340 --> 00:00:12,984 centenarian futurist Jacque Fresco and his partner Roxanne Meadows, 4 00:00:13,230 --> 00:00:17,316 who have created this 21-acre futuristic wonderland 5 00:00:18,073 --> 00:00:20,923 to give us an example of what might be possible 6 00:00:21,218 --> 00:00:24,923 if his visions come to life for a new society for us all 7 00:00:25,530 --> 00:00:28,270 that is centered around a resource-based economy. 8 00:00:28,460 --> 00:00:31,507 S.O.U.L. Documentary presents 9 00:00:31,660 --> 00:00:32,504 . ♫ New plans for our human family ♪ 10 00:00:32,504 --> 00:00:35,526 A World Worth Imagining ♫ New plans for our human family ♪ 11 00:00:35,636 --> 00:00:38,030 Jacque Fresco: The Man With The Plan . 12 00:00:38,030 --> 00:00:41,581 Jacque Fresco: The Man With The Plan ♫ to free us from this dark age ♪ 13 00:00:42,566 --> 00:00:44,529 Jacque - 1974 14 00:00:45,150 --> 00:00:48,923 The reason we emphasize machines and technology is to free man 15 00:00:49,156 --> 00:00:52,726 to go to art centers, music centers, cultural centers, 16 00:00:52,960 --> 00:00:56,043 and to find the meaning of their own existence and lives. 17 00:00:56,603 --> 00:00:58,320 Jacque Fresco interview take 4. [clap] 18 00:00:58,449 --> 00:01:00,840 Jacque - 2017 19 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,953 This was Jacque's last interview before he died in May 2017 at age 101. 20 00:01:10,320 --> 00:01:14,676 Let's take a look at this beautiful body of futuristic, visionary work. Come on! 21 00:01:15,950 --> 00:01:18,627 What do you think of when you contemplate the future? 22 00:01:18,890 --> 00:01:22,640 Well we're finding out what Jacque Fresco, a futurist, thinks about that. 23 00:01:23,030 --> 00:01:26,289 You may not have heard of Jacque Fresco, but he is known around the world. 24 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,720 Documentaries have been done about him. 25 00:01:29,144 --> 00:01:33,660 He has a plan to build an entire new world from the ground up. 26 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:37,421 Magazine writers from Europe have written stories about him. 27 00:01:37,926 --> 00:01:40,390 I've come to the other side of the world to Florida 28 00:01:40,726 --> 00:01:44,110 to meet a man who has a very clear vision of what he thinks 29 00:01:44,307 --> 00:01:46,196 the future of cities should look like. 30 00:01:46,307 --> 00:01:48,603 ...offering an architectural plan for human beings, 31 00:01:48,710 --> 00:01:52,424 technology, and nature to coexist to create a sustainable future. 32 00:01:55,236 --> 00:01:58,116 He's a social engineer, industrial engineer, designer, inventor, 33 00:01:59,255 --> 00:02:01,080 ... who truly believes the ills of society can be cured 34 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:04,990 only if we throw away the rules that govern it, and ourselves. 35 00:02:05,180 --> 00:02:08,196 But to do it Jacque's way there would be no communism, no capitalism, 36 00:02:08,375 --> 00:02:11,550 everyone living together in one world, sharing everything. 37 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,316 [ ♫ Dramatic music ♪ ] 38 00:02:19,163 --> 00:02:25,156 ♫ ♪ 39 00:02:33,747 --> 00:02:37,292 If you were to describe yourself, what would you say? 40 00:02:37,421 --> 00:02:40,738 I just about have to call myself a social engineer, 41 00:02:41,260 --> 00:02:46,012 because I'm not just interested in architecture and learning theory, and human behavior, 42 00:02:46,350 --> 00:02:49,310 but I am interested in all aspects of the Earth 43 00:02:49,889 --> 00:02:51,526 and people, people mostly. 44 00:02:51,827 --> 00:02:53,680 I'm not too interested in technology, 45 00:02:54,030 --> 00:02:56,590 although it may seem that I advocate that. 46 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,726 In actuality, all the wonders of technology to me 47 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,375 are just so much junk unless it makes humans better. 48 00:03:05,630 --> 00:03:07,784 My favorite part of the day was the lecture itself. 49 00:03:07,890 --> 00:03:10,356 I've watched a lot of Jacque Fresco's lectures. 50 00:03:10,461 --> 00:03:12,153 He struck me as a genuine person 51 00:03:12,264 --> 00:03:14,904 hell-bent on saving the world in every way he can. 52 00:03:15,015 --> 00:03:19,870 But I think Jacque has this amazing ability to zoom out 53 00:03:20,250 --> 00:03:22,160 and look at stuff from above, 54 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,890 on society, on structures, on life, on people. 55 00:03:27,286 --> 00:03:30,744 Parkinson's Disease affected Jacque's ability to speak in the last years of his life. 56 00:03:30,850 --> 00:03:33,501 - The depression had a big influence on you. - Yes. 57 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,938 How did it change you? 58 00:03:36,873 --> 00:03:39,975 Well I had to think my way out of it. 59 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:42,596 I went to the library. 60 00:03:42,824 --> 00:03:44,504 I read many books. 61 00:03:44,609 --> 00:03:47,790 Everybody had a little bit of something. 62 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:50,123 Jacque has been working on this all his life 63 00:03:50,338 --> 00:03:55,280 and what pushed him in this direction was that he experienced the Great Depression. 64 00:03:55,409 --> 00:03:58,650 Well I remember as a kid, during the depression, 65 00:03:58,904 --> 00:04:02,615 my father, being an agronomist, was one of the first guys laid off. 66 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:05,310 And he really tried to get a job; he couldn't, 67 00:04:05,420 --> 00:04:07,230 and the family was threatened. 68 00:04:07,969 --> 00:04:10,350 And there were no provisions for that kind of condition. 69 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,766 And I remember seeing millions of Americans displaced, 70 00:04:14,067 --> 00:04:17,193 and children riding freight trains across the country. 71 00:04:17,370 --> 00:04:19,636 They were good kids, they just couldn't make it. 72 00:04:19,809 --> 00:04:23,520 And people were sent out of their house because they had no money for the rent 73 00:04:23,858 --> 00:04:25,569 and people in bread lines. 74 00:04:25,673 --> 00:04:29,963 And that's what initiated people talking in the streets about communism and 75 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:33,495 free enterprise system and Mankind United and all different things. 76 00:04:34,020 --> 00:04:37,230 And he felt that it was the rules of the game that we play by 77 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:38,873 that were so screwed up, 78 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:42,812 that he started a quest of looking for a different social system 79 00:04:42,930 --> 00:04:46,227 that enabled people to thrive moreso, and he couldn't find one. 80 00:04:47,476 --> 00:04:48,560 Environment Shapes Behavior 81 00:04:48,670 --> 00:04:50,990 What has humanity failed to learn? 82 00:04:51,224 --> 00:04:56,090 They failed to learn: what makes people behave as they do. 83 00:04:56,461 --> 00:05:01,710 It's the indoctrination in schools, and in magazines, 84 00:05:02,307 --> 00:05:04,295 and in radio and news. 85 00:05:04,713 --> 00:05:08,221 Suddenly I realized, not a lot of people understand 86 00:05:08,578 --> 00:05:10,947 this factor that the environment shapes us. 87 00:05:11,052 --> 00:05:13,366 And it was, whoa! Really? 88 00:05:14,283 --> 00:05:17,840 If you raise an American child by the headhunters of the Amazon 89 00:05:18,104 --> 00:05:20,793 he will shrink heads and behave as a headhunter. 90 00:05:21,138 --> 00:05:25,058 You might dislike that behavior, but if you maintain that environment 91 00:05:25,181 --> 00:05:26,283 you will get that as a result. 92 00:05:26,393 --> 00:05:30,283 When you're brought up in the slums where every kid grabs what he can grab, 93 00:05:30,516 --> 00:05:33,273 otherwise there's nothing left for you! You understand? 94 00:05:33,540 --> 00:05:37,680 You're brought up with a philosophy that parallels where you're coming from. 95 00:05:38,140 --> 00:05:43,273 So, when people steal, I say "Every human being is lawful." 96 00:05:43,803 --> 00:05:45,636 They obey natural law. 97 00:05:45,980 --> 00:05:49,864 What you've been exposed to, if it's hatred, all that is lawful! 98 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,446 Fresco's vision goes beyond architecture. 99 00:05:54,923 --> 00:05:59,403 He sees his cities as tools for fostering humanistic values. 100 00:06:00,086 --> 00:06:03,323 I feel that environment shapes our values. 101 00:06:03,630 --> 00:06:06,867 The people we know, the people we identify with. 102 00:06:07,089 --> 00:06:09,803 It isn't human nature that people have greed. 103 00:06:10,141 --> 00:06:12,067 It's reinforced in this culture. 104 00:06:12,443 --> 00:06:15,415 And by having greed, you get more things. 105 00:06:15,698 --> 00:06:17,015 You get more money. 106 00:06:17,187 --> 00:06:19,969 You do it off of the backs of many other people. 107 00:06:20,258 --> 00:06:24,547 Every human being is perfectly well-adjusted for where they've been. 108 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:27,796 What you've got to remember is, we can raise a dog 109 00:06:28,326 --> 00:06:30,356 to tear Japanese soldiers to pieces, 110 00:06:30,664 --> 00:06:33,304 or we can raise the same police dog to help the blind. 111 00:06:33,421 --> 00:06:37,452 How do we find our way through from the standpoint of human nature? 112 00:06:37,790 --> 00:06:39,587 We look at it as a scapegoat. 113 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:40,461 They think that, 114 00:06:40,627 --> 00:06:44,080 "Well if there is a human nature in people that they can't exceed what they're doing." 115 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,424 [So] there'll always be war, there'll always be hatred, 116 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:48,824 there'll always be jealousy and crime, 117 00:06:48,935 --> 00:06:50,603 and that's just not true. 118 00:06:51,298 --> 00:06:53,680 From our point of view, there are no criminals. 119 00:06:53,969 --> 00:06:56,541 There are people that have been subject to deprivation. 120 00:06:57,150 --> 00:06:59,729 They've been subject to environments that have little warmth, 121 00:06:59,846 --> 00:07:01,704 little love, little caring, 122 00:07:01,820 --> 00:07:04,652 and the result and the byproduct is criminal behavior. 123 00:07:04,904 --> 00:07:08,340 All of our bigotry, and our hatred, and our prejudice, 124 00:07:08,738 --> 00:07:12,756 and our notions of good and bad and right and wrong 125 00:07:12,980 --> 00:07:16,160 are given to us from the culture that we're raised in. 126 00:07:16,609 --> 00:07:19,630 You believe that we teach competition, that it's not bred into some? 127 00:07:19,747 --> 00:07:22,566 Competition is dangerous, socially offensive, 128 00:07:23,130 --> 00:07:24,375 considered right and normal, 129 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:26,233 because you are brought up to that value system. 130 00:07:26,781 --> 00:07:31,273 Can you take a primitive baby and make an aeronautical engineer out of them? Yes! 131 00:07:31,550 --> 00:07:35,544 In the last 25 years, and from a background of isolated village life, 132 00:07:35,735 --> 00:07:38,123 such tribesmen have driven their first tractor, 133 00:07:38,295 --> 00:07:41,316 have acquired and practiced totally new medical skills, 134 00:07:41,741 --> 00:07:43,624 and mastered the skill of flying an airplane. 135 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:45,600 They don't have a primitive mind! 136 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:49,210 They have a mind set by the primitive culture! 137 00:07:51,421 --> 00:07:54,529 You make more sense than about anyone I've ever heard! 138 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,944 Why is your level of logic so rare? 139 00:07:59,610 --> 00:08:05,741 You can't expect a person to do anything outside of their conditioning. 140 00:08:06,043 --> 00:08:09,372 So reconditioning is the foundation for finding a new way? 141 00:08:09,526 --> 00:08:10,375 Yes. 142 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:15,606 It's too difficult once the kids get out of school. 143 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:18,129 They've already been poisoned. 144 00:08:19,378 --> 00:08:21,544 You managed to break out of it and find your own way. 145 00:08:22,363 --> 00:08:25,490 Aren't there enough of us out there who can make something happen? 146 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,369 Well this will make something happen, this film. 147 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,003 Cooperative Cooperation in Human Endeavor 148 00:08:34,123 --> 00:08:35,860 All environments generate behavior. 149 00:08:36,110 --> 00:08:37,532 We don't like to look at it that way. 150 00:08:37,690 --> 00:08:39,280 “Well, I make my own decisions! 151 00:08:39,513 --> 00:08:41,870 No one ever told me what to buy or what to think." 152 00:08:42,332 --> 00:08:44,270 When you go to school the first thing they do to you 153 00:08:44,424 --> 00:08:47,030 is you raise your right hand; you don't even know which is your right hand. 154 00:08:47,372 --> 00:08:48,855 And you pledge allegiance to a flag 155 00:08:49,076 --> 00:08:51,273 but you've never seen all the other flags of the world. 156 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,110 You pledge allegiance to the American way 157 00:08:54,338 --> 00:08:55,735 and the American way doesn't exist. 158 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:56,726 When I went to school 159 00:08:56,910 --> 00:08:58,849 the beds we sleep in were designed in England. 160 00:08:59,249 --> 00:09:01,033 The electric battery came from the Arabs; 161 00:09:01,156 --> 00:09:03,643 it was designed 600 years before Christ. 162 00:09:03,895 --> 00:09:05,833 We've learned a lot from so many people. 163 00:09:06,030 --> 00:09:08,510 And most of us are alive because of Louis Pasteur. 164 00:09:08,947 --> 00:09:10,800 So we owe so much to so many. 165 00:09:10,966 --> 00:09:13,778 "To get away from patriotism;" Einstein said that. 166 00:09:13,981 --> 00:09:17,218 To surrender our concepts of individual uniqueness 167 00:09:17,421 --> 00:09:20,947 in exchange for constructive cooperation in human endeavor. 168 00:09:21,409 --> 00:09:23,980 This is the future. Whether you can see it or not 169 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,160 depends on whether there will BE a future. 170 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,350 I don't have any expectations. 171 00:09:30,566 --> 00:09:33,100 Whatever happens is real. 172 00:09:33,260 --> 00:09:36,529 What I think SHOULD happen is not real. 173 00:09:36,870 --> 00:09:38,123 That's what hurts you: 174 00:09:38,246 --> 00:09:40,412 your expectations of the world. 175 00:09:40,670 --> 00:09:43,280 Social Design And Values 176 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,840 What Jacque has developed, what you've developed with him in the last 40 years, 177 00:09:48,018 --> 00:09:49,050 it's so much more than buildings. 178 00:09:49,169 --> 00:09:52,338 That's right. We always say it's not architecture, it's the social design. 179 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,972 It's a Resource Based Economy and it's the values that go along with it. 180 00:09:55,630 --> 00:09:57,193 So it's more than a building, it's- 181 00:09:57,610 --> 00:10:01,415 the building is the statement of some underlying philosophy 182 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:02,886 (- Yes) ...about how to run the world. 183 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:04,356 It's like the human body. 184 00:10:04,627 --> 00:10:05,680 If the brain said hey- 185 00:10:05,852 --> 00:10:08,867 I do all the thinking, I want most of the energy of the body, 186 00:10:08,978 --> 00:10:10,301 then the liver starts choking. 187 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,993 The liver says, without me you can't exist, so the brain says, well here's a little bit; 188 00:10:14,566 --> 00:10:15,581 the liver sufferers. 189 00:10:15,895 --> 00:10:19,778 You cannot give certain things to some organs of the human body. 190 00:10:20,067 --> 00:10:23,809 The whole mechanism, the planet Earth, and all its inhabitants live here. 191 00:10:24,246 --> 00:10:27,384 And there is a way today, fortunately only today, 192 00:10:27,660 --> 00:10:30,633 with science and technology, to overcome these problems. 193 00:10:31,421 --> 00:10:33,190 Science And Technology With Human Concern 194 00:10:34,744 --> 00:10:36,680 Being concerned about the environment without 195 00:10:36,861 --> 00:10:39,144 making the environment better for everyone, 196 00:10:39,833 --> 00:10:42,916 and keeping that in mind as your prime directive, 197 00:10:43,563 --> 00:10:45,052 for computers as well. 198 00:10:45,350 --> 00:10:48,203 Their prime directive is human concern. 199 00:10:48,873 --> 00:10:51,880 You can't be human, or decent 200 00:10:52,098 --> 00:10:55,193 without the knowledge to overcome scarcity. 201 00:10:55,384 --> 00:10:58,040 Today we can produce an abundance for all countries 202 00:10:58,307 --> 00:11:01,064 so they need not invade other countries. 203 00:11:01,458 --> 00:11:03,280 We can provide for their needs. 204 00:11:03,926 --> 00:11:06,380 Who will do all the work to build it? No one. 205 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:10,000 The Venus Project will be automated: factories, farms... 206 00:11:10,166 --> 00:11:12,430 If you unleash science and technology 207 00:11:12,541 --> 00:11:16,510 to create a high standard of living for everyone and automate boring jobs. 208 00:11:17,270 --> 00:11:20,024 Jacque Fresco's background as an industrial designer, 209 00:11:20,184 --> 00:11:23,120 social engineering guru, and architect 210 00:11:23,300 --> 00:11:28,332 have led the 98-year-old futurist to be dubbed a modern-day da Vinci. 211 00:11:28,812 --> 00:11:32,570 He has a long held theory for a more sustainable society 212 00:11:32,769 --> 00:11:36,683 and his city designs are like nothing we currently have in place. 213 00:11:37,003 --> 00:11:40,609 Technically, how difficult is it to build these homes? 214 00:11:40,806 --> 00:11:44,492 Well we will prefabricate like automobiles on production lines, 215 00:11:44,824 --> 00:11:47,095 not carpenters and hammer and nails. 216 00:11:47,569 --> 00:11:51,190 That's okay 50 years ago, but no longer adequate. 217 00:11:51,420 --> 00:11:53,864 He did the first prefabricated house after 218 00:11:54,184 --> 00:11:56,720 World War ll out of aluminum, 219 00:11:56,830 --> 00:12:00,264 but he made extrusions so the windows snapped in, the doors snapped in 220 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:02,676 and everything could be built very quickly. 221 00:12:02,929 --> 00:12:05,046 But because he worked on extrusions 222 00:12:05,261 --> 00:12:08,510 he came up with extruding entire apartment buildings. 223 00:12:09,290 --> 00:12:12,240 Everything's so futuristic, even today, it's so futuristic. 224 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:13,760 And when did he make these? 225 00:12:14,110 --> 00:12:16,153 He really made all of these designs 226 00:12:16,264 --> 00:12:18,510 60, 70 and sometimes 80 years ago. 227 00:12:18,620 --> 00:12:21,852 He's 101 and he started designing when he was 13. 228 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:24,701 We made these about 30-35 years ago but 229 00:12:25,175 --> 00:12:27,015 a lot of the designs are very old. 230 00:12:27,570 --> 00:12:29,009 So you have the monorail under the bridge? 231 00:12:29,126 --> 00:12:32,520 Yes, this is a covered bridge with a monorail underneath. 232 00:12:32,676 --> 00:12:35,329 And this is actually a very old design of his. 233 00:12:35,569 --> 00:12:38,818 Jacque had a concept for a train before I met him. 234 00:12:39,212 --> 00:12:41,335 But the train wasn't in a tunnel. 235 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,806 It had a probe out front that shot electricity, you could say, 236 00:12:44,910 --> 00:12:46,941 in front of it, so it broke the air. 237 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,987 So there was no sonic boom or there was no air pressure 238 00:12:50,092 --> 00:12:52,160 and it could go very, very fast. 239 00:12:52,307 --> 00:12:53,427 But you don't need the tunnel. 240 00:12:53,969 --> 00:12:56,449 And the same thing on aircraft, he applied it to aircraft. 241 00:12:56,550 --> 00:13:00,467 And in fact in 1956 he was in Popular Mechanics with that device. 242 00:13:02,129 --> 00:13:06,153 We hope to build a new transportation system that can move up to 2000 miles an hour, 243 00:13:06,498 --> 00:13:10,043 floating on a magnetic repulsive field or an air cushion. 244 00:13:10,380 --> 00:13:12,738 If 40 or 50 people have to leave the train 245 00:13:12,990 --> 00:13:14,676 we slow it to 100 miles an hour, 246 00:13:14,793 --> 00:13:17,846 lift off the passenger section, or slide it off, 247 00:13:17,980 --> 00:13:20,880 and slide on a section with the passengers getting on. 248 00:13:21,144 --> 00:13:24,966 This represents the building of underwater dams within the Gulf Stream. 249 00:13:25,495 --> 00:13:29,692 This dam will route the waters of the sea into a spillway, 250 00:13:29,938 --> 00:13:33,809 so the fish and marine life are separated from the turbine blades. 251 00:13:34,209 --> 00:13:37,643 The Gulf Stream will generate power to oxygenate the waters, 252 00:13:37,889 --> 00:13:40,873 to eliminate the red tide, to monitor marine life, 253 00:13:41,020 --> 00:13:43,310 and build an ecological relationship 254 00:13:43,470 --> 00:13:46,240 between the total oceanographic world 255 00:13:46,430 --> 00:13:47,433 and the continents. 256 00:13:48,510 --> 00:13:50,920 Let's not wait for nature to do it; we loused it up, 257 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:52,553 we're going to have to clean it up. 258 00:13:52,978 --> 00:13:55,378 They arrive at the technology eventually, 259 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:58,806 he just worked in many fields so he came out with things earlier. 260 00:13:59,101 --> 00:14:01,650 But it's the social design that's the most important. 261 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,658 We live in a monetary-oriented world, we think in terms of money. 262 00:14:09,020 --> 00:14:11,963 But the real value of any nation is its resources. 263 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,295 Without resources you have nothing! 264 00:14:17,150 --> 00:14:20,295 Say the ship sunk, and you found yourself on an island, 265 00:14:20,590 --> 00:14:22,750 and you had say 10 million dollars. 266 00:14:23,310 --> 00:14:24,824 And you had gold and diamonds. 267 00:14:25,076 --> 00:14:26,990 But the island has no water, 268 00:14:27,450 --> 00:14:30,338 no arable land, and no fish. 269 00:14:30,516 --> 00:14:32,018 You have nothing. 270 00:14:32,153 --> 00:14:34,301 So all this emphasis on money, 271 00:14:34,578 --> 00:14:39,956 which doesn't really represent anything but some way of exploiting other people. 272 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:43,212 When the bottom line is profit, it's very dangerous. 273 00:14:44,812 --> 00:14:47,766 And if you squander your resources in war, 274 00:14:48,233 --> 00:14:52,738 where you have 5,500 ships on the bottom of the sea today, 275 00:14:53,372 --> 00:14:58,073 loaded with copper, manganese, tungsten, all the kids that were killed, 276 00:14:58,541 --> 00:15:00,769 300,000 aircraft shot down. 277 00:15:01,163 --> 00:15:03,833 With World War II [resources] we could have housed everybody on earth, 278 00:15:04,092 --> 00:15:07,784 built hospitals all over the world, schools all over the world. 279 00:15:07,930 --> 00:15:10,818 There's something dreadfully wrong with our culture. 280 00:15:13,446 --> 00:15:16,252 We won't make the history books of the future. 281 00:15:16,470 --> 00:15:17,975 We are that ignorant. 282 00:15:18,769 --> 00:15:23,138 Not in technology. We're doing fine in computers and electronics, 283 00:15:23,476 --> 00:15:27,796 but the human value system is not moving fast enough. 284 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:30,535 Governments are not changing fast enough. 285 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:32,701 What have we done right? 286 00:15:33,329 --> 00:15:35,366 Nothing right ... yet. 287 00:15:35,575 --> 00:15:36,621 These are our dark ages. 288 00:15:36,861 --> 00:15:39,310 ♫ These are the new dark ages ♪ 289 00:15:39,670 --> 00:15:42,006 ♫ and the world might end tonight. ♪ 290 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:43,747 Yes. 291 00:15:45,747 --> 00:15:48,220 The future isn't Star Wars according to Jacque. 292 00:15:48,490 --> 00:15:49,901 It's a home for everyone. 293 00:15:50,380 --> 00:15:53,200 We'll show a world in which values are different. 294 00:15:53,323 --> 00:15:54,744 The aspirations of people: 295 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:57,452 they have compassion, feeling for one another, 296 00:15:57,740 --> 00:15:58,861 concern over the environment. 297 00:15:59,610 --> 00:16:03,286 Building the structures of the future may be the easy part of Jacque's vision. 298 00:16:05,267 --> 00:16:06,966 The real future, people will be different. 299 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,833 Well today, a person feels good helping an old lady across the street. 300 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,227 But where does she go when she gets across the street? 301 00:16:13,290 --> 00:16:14,480 Jacque thinks he has the answer 302 00:16:15,298 --> 00:16:16,898 in the city of the future. 303 00:16:18,646 --> 00:16:23,310 When I was about 12 years old I was looking at a gear on a table, 304 00:16:24,153 --> 00:16:26,400 and I saw the cities of the future. 305 00:16:27,890 --> 00:16:30,116 I think all inventions are based upon 306 00:16:30,892 --> 00:16:32,873 experiences like that. 307 00:16:33,070 --> 00:16:34,892 I don't think they come out of nowhere. 308 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,643 This is what the total city-... 309 00:16:37,750 --> 00:16:39,778 The total city looks like this. 310 00:16:39,969 --> 00:16:41,987 This is an ecological program. 311 00:16:43,110 --> 00:16:45,489 The cities are all immersed in beautiful gardens 312 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:48,000 where there are lakes, recreation areas, 313 00:16:48,141 --> 00:16:50,880 arts centers, music centers, cultural centers. 314 00:16:51,550 --> 00:16:52,800 And surrounding the city 315 00:16:52,910 --> 00:16:56,283 we have the agricultural belt where we grow foods hydroponically. 316 00:16:57,150 --> 00:17:00,295 Between cities, we let everything go back to nature. 317 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:06,338 In Jacque's world, bold new technology would literally change the way we live. 318 00:17:06,713 --> 00:17:11,544 Cybernation would free us from long workdays and allow us to pursue our own interest. 319 00:17:16,276 --> 00:17:20,332 All of the new cities will be a university, in essence. 320 00:17:20,730 --> 00:17:24,793 There's no courses that are used to exploit or abuse 321 00:17:24,910 --> 00:17:26,227 any other human being. 322 00:17:27,980 --> 00:17:32,092 United Nations Award For Sustainable City Design - 2016 323 00:17:32,209 --> 00:17:35,080 Jacque Fresco has blessed us 324 00:17:35,409 --> 00:17:39,624 with his unwavering commitment and uncompromising work 325 00:17:39,900 --> 00:17:42,418 to re-engineer a better future. 326 00:17:42,860 --> 00:17:46,406 On behalf of all of us, thank you! 327 00:17:46,990 --> 00:17:48,252 We are getting there 328 00:17:48,455 --> 00:17:52,073 and you have been a critical force for that change. 329 00:17:52,541 --> 00:17:57,132 Please, a warm round of applause for Mr. Jacque Fresco! 330 00:17:57,660 --> 00:17:58,960 [Applause] 331 00:18:01,095 --> 00:18:02,695 The whole idea of the future 332 00:18:02,836 --> 00:18:05,550 is to stop putting up little cities and buildings, 333 00:18:05,870 --> 00:18:07,876 but to work on a whole system. 334 00:18:10,769 --> 00:18:12,763 The center of the city, the nucleus, 335 00:18:12,972 --> 00:18:14,898 will house an electronic computer. 336 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:17,735 The computers do NOT control people. 337 00:18:18,301 --> 00:18:21,520 They maintain safety, they oversee the environment, 338 00:18:21,704 --> 00:18:25,796 maintain ecological balance between animal life and plant life. 339 00:18:28,067 --> 00:18:31,107 All the machines do is control the physical entities 340 00:18:31,409 --> 00:18:33,089 that comprise the environment. 341 00:18:33,329 --> 00:18:35,692 We feel that machines ought to do 342 00:18:35,895 --> 00:18:38,916 the filthy or the repetitious or the boring jobs. 343 00:18:39,070 --> 00:18:40,461 That man has to be free... 344 00:18:44,190 --> 00:18:48,036 to pursue the higher things, the higher possibilities of man. 345 00:18:54,180 --> 00:18:56,492 What is to be done precisely? 346 00:18:58,270 --> 00:19:03,723 An international system for the maximum utilization of the world's resources 347 00:19:04,209 --> 00:19:07,064 without any special privileged group! 348 00:19:07,353 --> 00:19:09,120 There's no technical elite. 349 00:19:10,147 --> 00:19:14,683 No scientific group that sit on cushions, that make the decisions. 350 00:19:17,830 --> 00:19:18,960 What form of government? 351 00:19:19,427 --> 00:19:21,150 Resource management government. 352 00:19:21,464 --> 00:19:25,027 Non-political: neither communist, fascist, 353 00:19:25,181 --> 00:19:27,476 socialist, free-enterprise. 354 00:19:29,101 --> 00:19:33,040 Merely the installation of resource management 355 00:19:33,852 --> 00:19:37,261 to enhance the lives of all human beings. 356 00:19:39,643 --> 00:19:41,810 Fresco poses a question for us all. 357 00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:45,858 Will humanity create the paradise we know is possible? 358 00:19:46,170 --> 00:19:48,307 or will it drive itself into oblivion? 359 00:19:48,713 --> 00:19:49,993 The choice is ours. 360 00:19:50,120 --> 00:19:53,089 Resource Based Economy 361 00:19:53,544 --> 00:19:56,080 As automation advances and we lose all these jobs 362 00:19:56,203 --> 00:19:59,280 how do we provide the food, shelter, medical care and energy 363 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:01,415 for all these people who aren't going to be able to earn it 364 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:03,126 because there aren't jobs for them to do so? 365 00:20:03,270 --> 00:20:05,396 A Resource Based Economy. 366 00:20:05,544 --> 00:20:09,236 The Venus Project wants to use a Resource Based Economy. 367 00:20:09,430 --> 00:20:11,723 Meaning, we have enough resources 368 00:20:12,030 --> 00:20:14,449 to take care of all the conditions and problems... 369 00:20:14,910 --> 00:20:17,316 ...and make everything available free, 370 00:20:17,470 --> 00:20:18,929 like the library. 371 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,827 A library for everything, a library. - That's right. 372 00:20:23,907 --> 00:20:26,393 There would be no money because we wouldn't need it. 373 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:29,113 Resources would be available to everyone. 374 00:20:29,569 --> 00:20:32,363 You don't want to own anything. You don't want money. 375 00:20:32,540 --> 00:20:34,800 What do you want is ACCESS to things! 376 00:20:35,270 --> 00:20:39,501 It's just no need to profit over other people's misery. 377 00:20:39,620 --> 00:20:42,720 You get a toothache, somebody makes a buck off of that. 378 00:20:42,941 --> 00:20:44,892 And we don't need to do that anymore. 379 00:20:45,190 --> 00:20:47,975 We can get beyond that by creating abundance. 380 00:20:49,370 --> 00:20:52,295 We can achieve a level of production so high 381 00:20:53,273 --> 00:20:57,243 that it'd be superfluous to put a price tag on things. 382 00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:00,252 And that's the beginning of a civilized world. 383 00:21:01,046 --> 00:21:04,221 The money system was designed hundreds of years ago 384 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:07,821 and it no longer fits the situation. 385 00:21:08,055 --> 00:21:09,907 So when this society grows up, 386 00:21:10,135 --> 00:21:14,073 they will understand that money is no longer necessary. 387 00:21:14,344 --> 00:21:16,590 They can go to a new kind of economy. 388 00:21:16,929 --> 00:21:18,744 No society in history 389 00:21:19,076 --> 00:21:23,033 ever looked into the future and designed things to fit that. 390 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,532 They waited until - boom! the bottom fell, 391 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,006 then they changed, you see? ... unfortunately. 392 00:21:29,956 --> 00:21:33,850 We're given the notion of individuality because it fits in with this culture, 393 00:21:33,969 --> 00:21:37,563 that you have to be responsible for your survival, 394 00:21:37,809 --> 00:21:41,495 your healthcare, and we don't need to do that. 395 00:21:41,618 --> 00:21:43,101 We could provide that for everybody. 396 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,230 If people have access to things, 397 00:21:45,403 --> 00:21:47,230 who's going to rob things from you? 398 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:50,769 Who's going to take things away from you if there are access centers? 399 00:21:51,150 --> 00:21:54,326 If there is no money we don't need bankers, 400 00:21:54,430 --> 00:21:56,455 we don't need lawyers, we don't need 401 00:21:57,089 --> 00:22:00,196 advertising agencies, we don't need stockbrokers. 402 00:22:00,535 --> 00:22:02,830 There's so much superficial waste. 403 00:22:02,947 --> 00:22:07,513 This culture, you have to sell things to keep the economy going. 404 00:22:07,780 --> 00:22:11,403 So we're plundering our resources just to keep selling. 405 00:22:13,747 --> 00:22:17,796 There are people that believe in the power of money. 406 00:22:18,172 --> 00:22:19,370 They're so wrong. 407 00:22:19,550 --> 00:22:21,280 And you can't tell them that. 408 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:23,046 They think you're a communist. 409 00:22:23,255 --> 00:22:25,667 Communism isn't radical enough. 410 00:22:26,650 --> 00:22:29,840 Communism isn't radical enough! That's a great Jacque quote, right? 411 00:22:30,123 --> 00:22:33,243 I don't want communism or socialism. That's too old-fashioned! 412 00:22:33,460 --> 00:22:35,083 We are moving into a system, 413 00:22:35,286 --> 00:22:39,870 a different system, and a system free of political bias. 414 00:22:40,153 --> 00:22:44,350 And if you elect the people with unquestionable ethics in government 415 00:22:44,652 --> 00:22:47,236 and if you ran out of resources, I can assure you 416 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:48,793 crime would grow again. 417 00:22:48,904 --> 00:22:52,730 And The Venus Project is the redesign of our culture. 418 00:22:53,052 --> 00:22:54,800 To design a society 419 00:22:55,101 --> 00:22:58,104 with the intelligent use of science and technology 420 00:22:58,486 --> 00:23:02,116 to lift up the lives of everyone, not a selected few. 421 00:23:02,498 --> 00:23:07,353 The economic alternative to most of the world's societies 422 00:23:07,950 --> 00:23:13,784 is to declare the earth as the common heritage of all the world's people. 423 00:23:14,098 --> 00:23:17,015 And then remove all the artificial boundaries 424 00:23:17,260 --> 00:23:20,609 so people can travel anywhere on earth without a passport. 425 00:23:23,046 --> 00:23:26,770 And they'll be no problems such as racial problems. 426 00:23:27,144 --> 00:23:29,360 There will be opportunities for all people. 427 00:23:29,580 --> 00:23:33,243 We do it because the smarter your children are, the richer my life. 428 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,304 So everybody in the world represents an extension to their life 429 00:23:37,575 --> 00:23:40,578 rather than, "I've got just the car you're looking for," 430 00:23:41,027 --> 00:23:45,636 rather everybody selling themselves and making a profit on one another. 431 00:23:46,467 --> 00:23:50,258 That will motivate them to see that everything they do 432 00:23:50,498 --> 00:23:52,787 goes out there for all humanity. 433 00:23:52,923 --> 00:23:57,495 All children are well cared for; all older folks are taken care of. 434 00:23:57,753 --> 00:23:59,932 So that means they will be taken care of. 435 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,113 Because everybody cares about everybody else. 436 00:24:04,283 --> 00:24:07,710 Science Applied To The Social System 437 00:24:08,061 --> 00:24:10,080 Before you launch a spaceship to the moon 438 00:24:10,283 --> 00:24:12,369 you want to know how many people are going to be on the ship. 439 00:24:12,535 --> 00:24:13,810 Is there water on the moon? 440 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:18,410 And so everything you design has to be in accordance with the physical reality. 441 00:24:18,584 --> 00:24:23,292 People speculate about how many people the Earth can sustain and support. 442 00:24:23,926 --> 00:24:27,218 First you have to do research and find out 443 00:24:27,815 --> 00:24:29,821 how much energy we have. 444 00:24:30,153 --> 00:24:33,372 The first thing we have to do is take a survey of just what we have 445 00:24:34,030 --> 00:24:37,249 and where the arable land is, where the water is, 446 00:24:37,581 --> 00:24:40,676 where most of the population is, what the illnesses are. 447 00:24:40,780 --> 00:24:41,821 We have to take many 448 00:24:42,393 --> 00:24:45,770 surveys of where the technical personnel are, where the needs are, 449 00:24:46,130 --> 00:24:48,800 and that dictates what we do where. 450 00:24:51,144 --> 00:24:53,370 We have to learn how to manage 451 00:24:53,667 --> 00:24:58,166 real economics, not for profit, for human betterment. 452 00:24:58,603 --> 00:25:01,901 Then you'll see the beginning of the civilized world. 453 00:25:02,153 --> 00:25:04,067 And once we get that in, 454 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,960 children will not understand how 455 00:25:07,175 --> 00:25:09,636 we couldn't see that in the old days. 456 00:25:09,784 --> 00:25:11,889 They'll say “Dad wasn't that obvious 457 00:25:12,018 --> 00:25:14,818 that if you live to yourself you die to yourself?” 458 00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:17,009 You're talking revolution. - No. 459 00:25:17,126 --> 00:25:19,569 When society breaks down-... - Technical revolution. 460 00:25:19,926 --> 00:25:23,440 But when society breaks down, then they'll want to do it a different way. 461 00:25:23,944 --> 00:25:26,010 I'm sorry about that, but it seems 462 00:25:26,363 --> 00:25:30,233 that conditions were so abusive in some lands 463 00:25:30,467 --> 00:25:34,510 that they put in socialism, communism, whatever, or fascism 464 00:25:34,806 --> 00:25:37,600 that fits the conditions that people live under. 465 00:25:38,818 --> 00:25:40,443 None of them are the solution. 466 00:25:40,652 --> 00:25:43,784 All governments all through history have been corrupt. 467 00:25:44,061 --> 00:25:47,495 Our priorities are all screwed up within the system 468 00:25:47,889 --> 00:25:50,092 because it's wealth, property and power. 469 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,910 And within a Resource Based Economy 470 00:25:53,027 --> 00:25:55,993 it's the protection of the environment and the well-being of people. 471 00:25:58,898 --> 00:26:02,700 When few nations control most of the earth's resources 472 00:26:02,996 --> 00:26:04,221 you're going to have trouble. 473 00:26:04,510 --> 00:26:07,181 You're going to have territorial disputes, wars. 474 00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:09,323 No matter how many treaties you sign 475 00:26:09,772 --> 00:26:11,661 or no matter how many laws you make, 476 00:26:12,356 --> 00:26:14,810 it won't stop that condition. 477 00:26:16,310 --> 00:26:17,403 The human condition, 478 00:26:17,723 --> 00:26:20,480 which causes people to invade other lands, 479 00:26:20,732 --> 00:26:24,455 torture people, build armies to protect what they have, 480 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,353 this is not going to work, it never has worked. 481 00:26:27,630 --> 00:26:29,513 It's as old as man. 482 00:26:29,710 --> 00:26:34,824 So what we need is an entirely different approach to the human problem, 483 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,683 and preserving the earth for the future; future generations. 484 00:26:46,220 --> 00:26:50,627 At age 100, Jacque's vast body of work gets recognition in a fine art museum exhibition. 485 00:26:50,787 --> 00:26:53,760 We've come to Naples Florida today to check out the Baker Museum 486 00:26:53,895 --> 00:26:56,486 who have curated a beautiful exhibition. 487 00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,144 We've made it up to the exhibition hall where 488 00:26:59,255 --> 00:27:02,030 Jacque Fresco's life's work is on display 489 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,280 decade by decade through an entire century 490 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:08,824 starting from the 1910s through the 2010s. 491 00:27:09,130 --> 00:27:10,473 We're here with Frank Verpoorten, 492 00:27:10,596 --> 00:27:13,433 the Director and Chief Curator of the Baker Museum. 493 00:27:13,569 --> 00:27:14,886 We'd like to learn first of all, 494 00:27:15,101 --> 00:27:17,815 what made you decide to house this exhibition at the Baker? 495 00:27:18,190 --> 00:27:20,904 We are the first venue I believe, on record, 496 00:27:21,212 --> 00:27:24,220 the first in the United States, to devote an exhibition to this subject. 497 00:27:24,390 --> 00:27:26,240 The impetus really for this came from 498 00:27:26,350 --> 00:27:27,901 the portrait of Jacque Fresco 499 00:27:28,012 --> 00:27:30,923 that Harry de Zitter took I believe in 2013. 500 00:27:31,218 --> 00:27:33,210 It's been a good response really, I mean... 501 00:27:34,092 --> 00:27:35,944 you're going to think this is funny, but especially 502 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,412 the response also from different media, 503 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:40,320 and so many different 504 00:27:41,820 --> 00:27:43,636 young filmmakers who are interested in 505 00:27:43,753 --> 00:27:46,520 this person and what he's accomplished so far. 506 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,849 Recently I was here with an architect 507 00:27:50,215 --> 00:27:54,449 who saw the exhibition for about 20 minutes, was not familiar with this artist, 508 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,780 even though this architect is in his mid- to late 50s. 509 00:27:58,070 --> 00:27:59,723 And he said "This is so remarkable!" 510 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,390 and he was looking at some of the designs 511 00:28:01,716 --> 00:28:03,261 and he said "I can show you 512 00:28:04,344 --> 00:28:09,833 some architects or designers who are working on this sort of concept right now." 513 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,390 In Jacque's case, these were designs that he made in the '60s or '70s. 514 00:28:13,870 --> 00:28:16,350 These are the '50s, these are pretty futuristic considering 515 00:28:16,461 --> 00:28:19,064 we didn't send a rocket to the moon until 1969. 516 00:28:19,230 --> 00:28:21,403 For the '50s, these are pretty ahead of their time. 517 00:28:21,510 --> 00:28:23,046 But also look at how, 518 00:28:23,593 --> 00:28:26,590 how serious he took himself from the very early days. 519 00:28:26,775 --> 00:28:28,220 This is really remarkable. 520 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:30,547 He knew he was on something very big and 521 00:28:30,670 --> 00:28:32,500 it means you have to take yourself seriously. 522 00:28:32,610 --> 00:28:34,480 We're very proud that we were the first 523 00:28:35,660 --> 00:28:38,295 to bridge this topic. 524 00:28:40,650 --> 00:28:43,735 Now It's Up To You 525 00:28:43,846 --> 00:28:47,870 So the Resource Based Economy is the nonprofit organization. 526 00:28:47,981 --> 00:28:50,166 Say they're inspired. What do you want them to do? 527 00:28:50,683 --> 00:28:52,270 Well we'd like them to come to our website. 528 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,929 Read more about it; there's a lot more information there. 529 00:28:55,046 --> 00:28:59,132 And go to the “Get Involved” section where you can see all of our different teams 530 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:00,190 if you'd like to help out. 531 00:29:00,473 --> 00:29:03,704 And we are working on the blueprints for our next project 532 00:29:03,821 --> 00:29:06,381 which is called “Center for Resource Management,” 533 00:29:06,812 --> 00:29:09,249 which will include exhibitions of the future. 534 00:29:09,735 --> 00:29:13,760 We would also have a huge media center, an educational center, 535 00:29:13,907 --> 00:29:16,313 research and development, and much more. 536 00:29:16,449 --> 00:29:18,486 We really welcome your help, we need your help, 537 00:29:18,596 --> 00:29:20,110 we're not going to get there any other way. 538 00:29:20,516 --> 00:29:24,043 The problems that this culture generates are endless. 539 00:29:24,596 --> 00:29:28,252 And that's why it's so important to show an alternative direction. 540 00:29:28,363 --> 00:29:32,012 We don't even know what it means to be civilized yet, in this culture. 541 00:29:32,147 --> 00:29:35,403 As long as we have war and poverty and prisons, 542 00:29:35,510 --> 00:29:36,498 we're not civilized. 543 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,538 We have the ability to do such wonderful things. 544 00:29:43,667 --> 00:29:46,203 So there it is, we visited The Venus Project. 545 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:51,187 Jacque and Roxanne couldn't have been more welcoming and informative and inspiring. 546 00:29:51,501 --> 00:29:53,390 And we're taking this knowledge with us 547 00:29:53,538 --> 00:29:55,347 and we are here to inspire you. 548 00:29:55,618 --> 00:29:58,553 We urge you to watch their documentaries, 549 00:29:58,701 --> 00:30:01,206 go to their website, read more, do the research, 550 00:30:01,366 --> 00:30:04,369 and come support this important project 551 00:30:04,486 --> 00:30:07,606 that really gives some new hope for us all. 552 00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:08,996 Thanks for being with us. 553 00:30:09,150 --> 00:30:11,175 Special Thanks to The Venus Project 554 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,409 Executive Producer Evan Gary Hirsch 555 00:30:13,513 --> 00:30:15,020 Producer Kip Baldwin 556 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:16,904 I didn't expect to walk by and see alligators. 557 00:30:22,498 --> 00:30:27,900 To see an 81-years-old Palestinian and a 31-year-old Israeli 558 00:30:28,055 --> 00:30:30,920 share the same visions about peace and about love 559 00:30:31,052 --> 00:30:32,920 and it's the perfect place to do it. 560 00:30:33,030 --> 00:30:34,738 Director of Photography John Diaz 561 00:30:34,843 --> 00:30:36,970 Editor, Post Production & Additional Footage Joel Holt 562 00:30:37,132 --> 00:30:39,243 Camera & Drone Operator Raliegh Latham 563 00:30:39,450 --> 00:30:41,489 ♫ This is our last chance ♪ 564 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,360 Jacque is a great visionary 565 00:30:43,587 --> 00:30:47,033 bringing people to understand what a world without war, 566 00:30:47,150 --> 00:30:48,812 without money, would look like, 567 00:30:49,193 --> 00:30:54,510 ♫ Maybe we can still have our last dance ♪ 568 00:30:55,950 --> 00:30:57,800 ...where we have global resource management 569 00:30:58,150 --> 00:31:00,775 in cooperation, not competition. 570 00:31:07,270 --> 00:31:09,944 A special heartfelt thanks to Roxanne Meadows for her assistance & consulting on this project 571 00:31:10,055 --> 00:31:13,720 To learn more about The Venus Project visit thevenusproject.com 572 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:17,070 ♫ One last chance ♪ 573 00:31:17,747 --> 00:31:20,330 ♫ One last chance ♪ 574 00:31:22,220 --> 00:31:27,556 ♫ To love ♪ 575 00:31:31,107 --> 00:31:35,501 If we fail to accept the responsibility for our own future 576 00:31:35,735 --> 00:31:37,347 there will BE no future. 577 00:31:37,450 --> 00:31:39,483 Jacque Fresco 1916 - 2017 578 00:31:40,393 --> 00:31:44,300 Learn more at www.soulDocumentary.love